Perfume:The Elder Is Also A Tree

The Elder Is Also A Tree in Pure Perfume or Eau de Parfum//Cologne Intense.

This perfume is included in the 5 scent boxes. If you would like to sample it, please choose the Gourmands box.

This isn’t as overtly fruity as some fruit/gourmands, it is creamier and woodier.  

A slight citrus opening, touched by wet leaf freshness. This drifts into a sweeter wood with elderberry and blackberry. As skin warms the oils warm, so the berries dissipate and soft vanilla, jasmine tinged with wood are apparent. A delicate, soft orris with warm opoponax and nutty vetiver bourbon change the focus. Peru balsam, benzoin and black tea keep the sweetness tethered.The dry-down is a very long lasting, silky smooth leather. There are hints of hedgerow flowers, jasmine and rose, and a chocolaty patchouli, threaded with tendrils of exotic tuberose to finish in a calm creamy, wood.

The elder berries, leaves, wood, bark and roots were a highly valued part of rural tradition in the Bronze Age. In 930CE ‘Bald’s Leechbook’ (they knew how to sell a book back then) was the medical compendium, with a multitude of uses for the elder, from recipes, medicines to magic spells. Every day use continued throughout the 17th century, Nicholas Culpeper referred to it as “The medicine-chest of country people.” 

An arborescent changeling, filling gaps where hedgerows give way.

Its wood makes drumsticks and whistles, flutes and flageolets.

Its flowers temper colds and ease rheumatic pain;

the leaves soften bruises, and the berries are used to stain.

It’s tended yet untidy - half wild, half claimed.

A branch across your door keeps sickness at bay;

plant one in the garden to draw fierce storms away.

It smells of trysts and gossip, gin and sorcery -

an ethnobotanical guild of one. And still… the elder is also a tree.

An alternative, light fruit, in a more classically feminine, centred around wild-strawberry, is Dhoon Glen, or Aroma Borealis, a light fruit/floral and Little Fig Tree, a restrained, true to life, fig scent.

Style: Fruit/Gourmand   Sillage: Medium    Longevity-  8 hours+.

Made predominantly from oils, absolutes, extracts and resins. Our perfume are complex and the concentrations are higher than most commercial perfumes.

All sizes come presented boxed.