Yummy pine needles

Yummyy. On first spray I mostly get the pine and orange– the pine is very realistic and smells like a crushed pine needle, and it fits very well with the orange which is more on the side of zest than juice. Weirdly I also get a tinge of something aquatic– this has happened to me with other Mythpunk scents so I wonder if it is something with how I interpret their green notes. It gains a xeric texture as it dries down and the wood/musk starts coming out, reminding me of particularly scraggly wood bark textures, like red cedar or shagbark hickory. I have to smell up close to detect it, but the musk is definitely specifically black peppery. The rosemary and armoise aren't on the forefront for me but I do detect them adding an additonal herbal complexity to the scent.

the smell of childhood hikes

Willowherb is INCREDIBLE. I didn't know what to expect from the notes (honestly true for everything from Mythpunk, the fragrances tend to be more of a vibe than the sum of its parts), but I read 'dry atmospheric' and knew I had to try. I was really surprised upon smelling this to find that it pulled up a memory of hiking as a kid! I grew up in the southwest, so while we DID have forests we visited sometimes, they were high altitude and very dry and bright. This smells like those forests to me and brings up a lot of happy memories of walking with my childhood dogs and playing in the woods with my siblings. I also thought it was a little spicy/peppery once dry, and I came looking for the notes again to find Ashe had updated them to include that little hidden one :P it fits so well with the dry cedar! Incredible scent and I have immense respect for any fragrance that can pull a feeling/memory out of me like that, I'm going to be snagging a full bottle of this as soon as I can.