I’m finally reviewing some less gourmand, fruity stuff! I have been looking for scents that read as more gender neutral to me and I feel like Nui Cobalt’s Dendrophilia fits this category really well actually. I got a sample from their site and I believe they only sell in oil format. I went through their site and sorted through best selling which was really helpful because their catalogue is actually pretty massive! I am glad I added this one to the cart. They also threw in a freebie so that was nice. Indie perfume places tend to do that and are pretty generous compared to bigger stores. 

Notes are : Moss-covered deadfall, birchwood and pine, lingering resins and sunlight through the leaves, a trace of woodsmoke, the memory of vetiver and cedar. Wear this evocative blend to commune with the spirits of nature and reconnect with your primal wisdom.

Putting this on, I could really smell trees! They were unbelievably realistic and I felt like I got a full forest scent. It wasn’t camphorous and there was no strong pine, it was more like deciduous or redwood trees. If this perfume was a color, it would be a dark sage green, not a bright green or emerald green. It was a nice fresh terpine heavy scent but what I felt like was unique about it was that there was a very dry soil scent. Usually with forest type perfumes, there is a lot of wet soil and geosmin. Here, it felt like a dry, dusty soil. Like it was summer and you’re in the forest but it’s not humid. On the dry down, there is a faint, realistic woodsmoke note that also goes with the dry dirt, there was no BBQ smell. I also appreciated that there was absolutely no cologne-y smell that I would expect to get thrown in from this kind of fragrance. Any green notes in this were natural and realistic nature scents. Overall, this felt like a realistic, natural, forest scent without any crazy bells and whistles, and I appreciated that there was no gourmand notes added or overly perfumy notes. I also think this is a really nice unisex scent if you’re looking for something atmospheric and forest-y.