Saint Julep

Sweet orange with mint, squeeze some orange, throw in some crashed mint leafs, add quite a few spoons of sugar, and inhale, this is what you get at first sniff. Pour it over some artificial ambergris and you get dry-down. Smells better that it sounds, unique scent, with satisfactory performance.

Now this is something you have not smelled. Picture a fresh glass of water on a hot summer day. Add ground up mint, and three sugar cubes. Shake it up and smell. You now have Saint Julep. An amazing and energizing fragrance that delicately balances mint and citrus over a crushed ice. A must try.

The opening is a sun-kissed porch under the magnolias, sipping aged bourbon over demerara sugar, muddled citrus and fresh mint from a cut-crystal hi-ball glass. It's remarkably fresh, sweet, boozy and delectable in its balance. Unfortunately, the mint and citrus are rather fleeting, leaving a skin-close boozy caramel afterthought. I sample new scents cautiously to avoid olfactory fatigue - I have to hope that a judicious application veering toward excess might leave enough scent molecules on the skin to create some spillage, but at the price (usually well earned) of Imaginary Authors scents, one shouldn't need to be doused in a scent in order for others to enjoy it as well.

Herbal scent, light, fresh, very soft. I love this house. All the fragrances are so unique, it's difficult for me to be disappointed by anything they release. Longevity and sillage are low, but in summer, that's definitely an okay thing, as the heat raises the level of being cloying. So a nice, safe summer scent has arrived!