Monday, April 20, 2020

Dawn Spencer Hurwitz - Rocky Mountain High review

Rocky Mountain High is a green, dry, pungent, vegetal, and bitter fragrance. It's certainly interesting, and something which would be appreciated by fans of green fragrances. True to the name, it definitely smells like flower (not smoked cannabis) - very much so - but it's tempered by clary sage, pine, and fir. It's fairly linear, and I mostly get these basenotes throughout a wearing, so there isn't much to say about it. Though the cannabis note does become gentler as the fragrance dries down, and the green, woodier notes become more dominant. Nevertheless, it still doesn't change much from when it's first sprayed.
This might be appealing to fans of green chypres from the 70's or 80's.

The cannabis note is quite daring, however, so I'd imagine this is not a safe office scent. Smelling like booze isn't particularly daring, especially since it smells entirely different in a bottle than it does as your body metabolizes it. Smelling like pot, on the other hand, might turn a few heads, even though it's pretty much legal in a lot of place.

Performance isn't bad. I get maybe 7 or 8 hours from it. It seems like it sits close to the skin after an hour, though I've gotten a few comments about how I smelled after a few hours.

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