I find it so pleasurable to wear.Note taking applications tend to be text and image based, but Pear Notes takes things a stage further by also enabling you to record audio and video. Either way, fans of thick, creamy scents should run to try this. Pear & Olive feels a bit like this to me - oily, fruity, and green-grassy at the start and turning slowly into a salty, thick cream towards the end. The texture of the scent reminds me of my favorite cleansing oil by Clarins which starts off on my skin as a thin oil and then, when drops of water are added, turns into an unctuous, opaque cream. The slippery olive oil note, though, ensures that this is a savory type of creaminess. ![]() It lends a creamy coconut milk feel to the base, and a dry, nutty woodiness too. Primarily, this is the play of sweet pear against a grassy olive oil, but there are also pleasing contrasts between the sweet hay-like smell of chamomile and the bright green calamus.įor me, though, the defining note of Pear & Olive is that of the Massoia bark. Finally someone who let his perfumes talk.Ī surprise hit for me! But then again, I'm not sure why I am so surprised - after all, I love the juxtaposition of salt and sweet in foods (strong cheddar and apples, salted peanuts and chocolate, fresh white cow's cheese and honey.), and Pear & Olive is an almost classic balancing act between savory and sweet elements. Now, while the house delivered some fragrances I love, others I like only on a theoretical basis, and a couple I still can't warm up to, I strongly believe Josh Lobb is one of the best things happened to perfumery in quite some years and he's the living proof you don't necessarily need shallow marketing strategies and attention-whoring behaviors to break into the market. It's a nice play between opaque hues and transparent ones, between sweet and sour facets, between the angular and the rounded.Īs a further note, I'd like to express again my full support and appreciation for Slumberhouse which is responsible for one of the most innovative range of fragrances in quite some time. There's a sense of restraint to Pear + Olive that while it's not very typical of the house, it definitely plays in the fragrance's favor which feels robust and dense while showing a kind of watercolor facet and some transparency. It sounds like a whatever juvenile *yummy-yummy* sweet fruity bomb but Josh Lobb's very peculiar quote turned this composition into something that goes beyond genres. The massoia (a woody-coconut kind of smell) breaks in pretty fast giving birth to an endless and pretty much addictive woody-vanillic dry down. Yes, the opening is still a sweet and green combo of fruity stuff (pears in this case), a sparkling element probably related to some kind of aldehydes and something greasy / oily. As a matter of fact though, after a visit of a friend who was wearing a massive amount of Pear + Olive, I got to appreciate its uniqueness and evocative power. I've always found it a bit too sweet to my tastes and, admittedly, I'm not the biggest fan of fruity notes in perfumery unless they're rendered in their green / unripe aspect as opposed to the edible and sweet counterpart. Pear + Olive is perhaps the fragrance I struggled the most to appreciate in the Slumberhouse's range but, eventually, it clicked. It's a very "culinary" scent, and reminds me of the creativity on display when a talented chef inventively pairs ingredients to make an unexpectedly cohesive dish.takes guts and skill to pull that off. Really fun scent! Anyone who wants something creamy and/or savory and isn't opposed to a good helping of background sweetness should definitely check it out. The sweetness really dominates when I sniff right off the wrist, so just be forewarned of that. I'll note that I like P+O a LOT more when I get a waft of sillage, and that's when I get more of the savory/creamy/salty aspect. Textually (and yes, maybe this is the name guiding my nose), I can totally get on board with a reference to that plush, soft, velvet-buttery texture that you get with high end, mildly brined green olives, which are one of my favorite foods. So it's "buttery" but not in the nastily overbearing movie theater popcorn way. The association for me is air-popped popcorn with a drizzle of olive oil and salt on it. The savory aspect is most fascinating to me. ![]() Yes, the opening is quite sweet and it's fairly rich throughout, but I'm relieved to get quite a strong creamy/salty presence to offset it, and I don't find it cloying, though I'd hesitate to wear this in humid, hot weather. What a delightful and interesting creation! I bought a split with a little trepidation based on some reports that it's extremely sweet, smells like a cheap pear shampoo, etc.
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