I really like this quietly exceptional juice. It’s got a touch of the almost seaweedy earthiness of something like Bulgari Atlantique, it’s got something woody happening in there, and definitely pine somewhere in the middle, but that slightly citrusy pine of green pine sprouts, not like a dry aged pine. Plus a little, I don’t know, maybe almost asian spice or smokiness, like a little silver bow around it.

I wouldn’t say it’s an entirely unconventional scent, but among scents that aren’t likely to raise any eyebrows it doesn’t really smell much like anything else. It’s sort of an unusual hybrid blue/green/brown scent. Probably a little to dressy for the office, but also probably among the most demure of dressy scents. I don’t find it too strong, as some people have apparently reported, and for the entirely reasonable price it would make a fine dumb reach for when you don’t want your skin to holler, “I’M WEARING COLOGNE! DON’T I SMELL GREAT?!?” at everyone who passes you on the street, but nonetheless want to smell really nice and make a moderately classy impression when someone is close… which, to me, is most days. I’m a big fan of layering things but I don’t know if I’d tamper with this one, the balance is just right.