Brand: Alkemia
Scent Description: Crushed wet ferns, calamus root, cedar tips, galbanum, balsam pine, moss, lichen, dried leaves, and aromatic incense woods.
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Indie Scent Library 
Beautiful ancient mossy forest in a bottle – there’s a lot going on with this perfume, it’s very unique! Alternatively it reminds me of a musty and damp basement of an extremely old antique house. I feel like this perfume is definitely more of an atmospheric perfume than something one should wear in a crowd as it’s pretty strong, long lasting and maybe a little headache inducing if experienced for too long. It’s definitely worth a try 🙂
This is the most true-to-life moss fragrance I’ve ever had the pleasure of smelling. It’s green incarnate, and definitely conjures up imagery of a wet, mossy forest with ferns and lichen everywhere.
When first applied, it smells just like summer moss! It really makes me feel like I’m smelling the floor of a pine forest, and I love it. Buuut as it wears it settles into mostly incense
It smelled very spicy and green, but overall the incense element was too much for me to really enjoy this. I can see how people that don’t mind incense would love this scent though! The mosses, ferns, and autumnal leaves are captured extremely well.
Smells like a gorgeous little fairy grove in a warm sunny forest, to my nose. After several months of aging I do also get a hint of incense in the background, so I guess witches do their thing in this grove sometimes, and I dig it.
I will say the first few minutes with this one I get an astringent green smell that I’m pretty sure is the “piquant cedar tips” and it’s so potent that for that first few minutes it’s all I smell– especially for the first month or two. Once the perfume ages a bit, that’s less of an issue for me and I can enjoy my incensey fairy grove in peace.
This smells to me like a much greener, fresher version of Gaia (Gaia is ALL dirt). It’s a little harsh for me.