In the Studio

[Jenjin]

Alfred Holst Tourrier - In the Studio
Oil paint, turpentine, dusty wood planks, and pipe smoke streaming through pale amber sunbeams.

[jiggahava]

First things first, there's that turpentine smell! Little reminiscent of motor oil, but brighter and fresher smelling.

 

Next stage about an hour or so in, still turpentine/oil paint but more of the dry wood and amber are showing up.

 

This is more subdued than I was expecting. I like it, but I'm not blown over. I would love to see what painters/artists think of this one. 

 

The last stages have a nuttiness to it, which I'm attributing to the dry woods. Which is fine, but I wanted more of a sustained turpentine blast. I think this will benefit from aging.

[Biocarbons]

I took painting classes in college, so I was curious about how accurate this smell would be to a painting studio.

 

Wet: there is a whiskey like note that approximates turpentine. mint or menthol, a touch of warm amber, sweet pipe smoke and woods. I'm also picking up a touch of something that reads as moss. I don't really get any oil paint.

 

It reminds me a bit of the opening of DS Durga bowmakers, but smoother.

 

Overall, this is an unusual amber perfume. I don't really have anything else like it in my oils collection.

[forspecial_plate]

I smell the dusty wood for sure.  It's a little dusty, but I'm also getting wisps of oil paint in there.  Something about this reminds me of some kind of bitter grains, almost a rye or caraway note but not quite.  I think for me the amber kind of softens the whole thing and smooths out any rough edges.  Pipe smoke?  I get a little of that too, if I sniff up close.

 

I am very faintly reminded of Globe, a Luper scent from a while back, but overall I agree this is really different from anything else I've tried.  

 

I always wanted a perfume that smelled like this old duplex house I lived in when I was little.  I was friends with the kid downstairs.  The house had a smell like - wood, floor polish, books, kind of an old museum smell?  But clean.  This isn't quite it but it might be the closest thing I ever find.