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Apple Orchard is the type of fragrance that shows how the perfumer behind it is a master of his craft. Anna Zworykina masterfully uses natural materials to convey her ideas, and in this fragrance, she beautifully portrays a scene of an apple orchard, you can smell the aroma of fallen sour green apples on the ground, fallen leaves, trees and mosses. The fragrance has a very autumnal mood. From a technical point of view, it is a fruity floral chypre, there is an accord in the opening that gives an illusion of apples, I can smell champaca, Moroccan rose with its ripe pear-like nuances, neroli, jasmine, some leafy fruity note, blackcurrant and cognac in it. There is also noticeable oregano, hints of galbanum, angelica, woods (cedar-like) and dry spices. The fragrance moves to a mossy chypre base with noticeable vetiver.
Balushi
Apple Orchard is not so much about apples as it is about the orchard. And I envision an abandoned orchard, at the end of fall. Some of the apples are still dangling from the naked boughs, but most of them are already rotting on the ground… At first, there is an apple-y accord, but with a significant amount of mustiness, which makes you immediately think of the abandoned orchard I describer earlier… Then you are reminded of the fertile soil underneath, forgiving the inattentive farmers and receiving these rejected fruit with open arms. This gradually evolves into the spiciness of oak barrels, with hints of musky opoponax, allspice and cloves.
Ayala Moriel
Natural perfumery speaks a different language and requires a special approach. It doesn't always has the exact terms (perfume notes) and relies much more on perception and imagination. So, please don't look for apples here, but just imagine them instead.
This perfume gives me a couple of pictures from the life of an Apple Orchard as if I had a chance to visit it four times, once in a month, from August till November. Four pictures of the scent are:
August: the scent opens with the freshness of green leaves and the chartreuse shade of yet bitter apples. Joyful and energizing.
September: it flirts with me seducing with its fruity notes. But once I try to catch them, I get nothing but the waxy feeling of an apple skin under my nose.
October: the slight melancholy embraces me with the bitterness of fallen leaves.
November: the time of reflection while sitting next to the open fire with a glass of Calvados.
Apple Orchard is a fruity chypre. On my skin it develops into a woody resinous smell with a bitter undertone, green freshness and just a slight fruity nuance. Very autumnal.
AromaX