Scentzilla!

This review applies to my use of the eau de parfum. The eau de toilette is obviously a bit lighter, and seems sharper; The parfum is more expensive than my budget allows for, so I’ve been unable to try it.

“Ethere” to me is a bit of a misnomer. This scent feels somehow familiar to me, since it implements smells I think I recognize and then completely rearranges them in a whole new fashion.

The overriding impression I have of this is the smell of an early spring morning. Specifically, the scent alludes to the morning after a lawn was mowed, and after a night rain, where you smell the freshly cut but now wet grass, and the newly blossoming flower borders with their daffodils, some enterprising tulips, the last crocuses still pretending to cling to life, and freshly planted annuals.

Ethere additionally reminds me of the Tazo tea blend Om, with Om’s mix of black and green teas blended into green and flowery herbs.

Very neatly sewn in between the seams of these greens is a floral piping, with jasmine and rosy notes. The flowers here never dominate, but they are unmistakable and run right through the heart of Ethere.

This may smell just a bit sharp to some noses, I think primarily because it does have a lemon-y note. However, on the scale of sharp perfumes, this must fall towards the lower end of the spectrum. The lemon in this is very approachable, and is almost more like a lemongrass or lemon verbena than an acidic lemon.

This does seem to have a wood base at its very bottom, but I’m hard pressed to identify what in the heck that wood is. It’s particularly faint, and maybe has a slight buttery sweetness blended into it. Maybe. If I had to compare it to anything, the wood conceivably smells like an antique oak and walnut dresser my mom has. Who even knows, though, ’cause it’s really light. Perhaps the base is a blended accord of some sort?

Ethere is an excellent winter-blues pick me up, and would also make a great day/office scent. Ethere will not likely prove to be anyone’s “power” or art-of-seduction scent. The lush green never becomes acridic on me, and wears with a soft brightness for six to seven hours. I think it’s just lovely, a truly unabashadly green scent that lifts my mood up instantly whenever I wear it.