Thorn & Bloom Evergreen (Jennifer Botto) 2015 ~Perfume Review + Winter Woods Draw

Jennifer Botto of Thorn & Bloom

 Jennifer Botto, the owner and artisan perfumer for Thorn & Bloom, creates extraordinary natural perfumes that transport and entice, and her tribute to North Woods winter named (appropriately enough) Evergreen, is no exception. Writing for ÇaFleurebon, I paid tribute at the start of the year to Citrine, Jennifer’s happier than hell “winter citrus", and am excited to  wind down the year covering another of her marvelous range.

Rafal Olblinksi

Evergreen captures the stillness of a North woods snowbound winter perfectly. If you’ve spent any time in the woods at night after a heavy snowfall, you know how the sound is so muffled and muted that it creates a space that borders on otherwordly and spiritual. All that can be heard is the soft crunching or whooshing of walking through snow, the world around you is completely silent and at that moment is magically transcendent. Evergreen encapsulates that profound feeling perfectly, and adds to it a crackling bonfire in a deserted clearing.

Rafal Olblinksi©

Opening with an arctic-cold rush of pine and fir, Evergreen transports you right into the middle of the deep dark woods, the night as clear and sharp as a crystal goblet, the stars so close and bright you could pick one out of the sky. You walk through the holy and still darkness towards a light that as you approach, becomes a bonfire.

Rafal Olblinksi©

Or perhaps heading home after an early evening winter ramble through the woods, and the smell of the woodsmoke as you approach your warm and cozy home; a scent of wood and fire that can make your heart swell. The green wood is crackling and spitting like a feral cat, the greenish smoke scent fills the air so perfectly. It’s as if one could send prayers and meditations imbued in the smoke. There’s only one other scent that fills me with the sense of peace and quietude that I find in the winter woods, and that’s Chanel’s Sycomore (a top-ten favorite of mine)  and if you replace the Sycomore vetiver with the warm comfort of the real oakmoss in Evergreen, then you’ll understand how divine this creation is composed. Jennifer Botto’s Evergreen could be destined to become a modern masterpiece for years to come.

Notes: Fir cone, Pine Needle, Guiacwood (Palo Santo), Cedarwood, Smoke, Oakmoss, Agarwood (Oudh), Vanilla

Disclosure: Thank you SO much to Jennifer Botto for supplying my sample. The opinions are my own.

 –Robert Herrmann, Senior Editor

Best of Show:Fragrance 2016 Indie Beauty Expo

Editor’s Note: Jennifer is a Certified Natural Perfumer’s Guild perfumer, A CEW Beauty Insider Finalist, the Indie Beauty Expo Best Fragrance 2016 Winner and 2x Finalist in the Art and Olfaction Awards 2017 and 2016 to name just a few, (here are links to her numerous awards and accolades including CaFleureBon Best of Scent 2015 and 2016).

-Art Direction: Michelyn Camen, Editor-in-Chief; I used the surrealist natural paintings of Polish Artist Rafal Oblinski

 Jennifer’s beautiful fragrances are available through her website: www.thorn-and-bloom.com and select stockists.

Thanks to Jennifer Botto and Thorn & Bloom, we have a reader’s choice of one 7.5 ml  travel atomizer ($65) of Evergreen

or

a 9 piece  discovery kit for one registered reader In the USA, so be sure to register if you have not done so.

To be eligible please let us know what appeals to you about Robert’s review of Evergreen and if you would like the travel spray or the sampler. Draw closes on 11/20/2017.

We announce the winners only on our website and on our Facebook page, so like Cafleurebon and use our RSS feed…or your dream prize will be just spilled perfume.

 

 

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25 comments

  • Gabriel Gallawa says:

    Robert’s review paints such a vivid picture I can’t help but want to test out Evergreen. I’d love an opportunity to try the sampler.

  • Patrick Echevarria says:

    Robert’s description of Evergreen in comparison to Sycomore excites me because it is in my top 5 favorite vetiver frag. If what he says it on point,then this should be something I will surely love too! Hope to sample this and find it out myself. San Diego

  • Elizabeth T. says:

    What a perfect way to bookend the year, Robert. I love the sound of an “arctic-cold rush of pine and fir.” It takes me to another time and place. Thank you for this generous draw. I would choose the sampler, as there are so many Thorn & Bloom perfumes that sound swoon-worthy.

  • I enjoyed Roberts evocative poetic description of Evergreen and i love vanilla, oakmoss and smoke. I’d love to have the 7ml spray.

  • Sounds like a perfect winter scent! I’m attracted to Robert’s description of “the warm comfort of real oak moss in Evergreen.” I live in the US and would prefer the sampler set if I should win.

  • I have been in the Northwoods in the winter and it is exactly how Robert describes it. This fragrance sounds absolutely wonderful. I love the notes, and I love the entire concept. I would love the sampler set as I would love to experience all of her scents. Thanks for the draw. I’m in the USA

  • Robert’s description of Evergreen as Sycomore with the vetiver replaced with real oak moss” is what appeals to me most about his review.
    I live in the US and would prefer the travel spray of Evergreen

  • I love woody fragrances. Pine and fir is something I’ve never had in a perfume. It sounds earthy and comforting.
    I’d love the sampler set.
    I live in the U.S.

  • I love how Robert describes this fragrance and I am intrigued because it is all natural. I would love to win the travel spray of Evergreen. I reside in the USA.

  • james weaver says:

    Robert’s description of evergreen I can picture being in a forest absolutely amazing description. I would like to win the sampler. Virginia resident

  • I’m excited to try this because of the comparison by Robert to Chanel’s Sycomore. Discovery kit please. US

  • Robert’s review of evergreen is nice and riched with “colors”. Especially I liked decripition when we feel arctic-cold rush of pine and fir move, than we move into the middle of the deep dark woods in the nice night when stars so close to us.
    I’d love to have the 7.5ml spray.
    US

  • ” A scent of wood and fire” sounds like a great combo! I would like to win the sampler. Thank you!
    US

  • LOVE me some PINE FOREST!!! I’m always in the look for a good pine/evergreen fragrance since the good one’s are few and far inbetween… The brisk sharp air with the surrounding forest of green and a burning fireplace off in the distance… sounds devine… Yes, count me on for the sample set / discovery kit. I do live in the US… THANK YOU

  • You can picture Robert’s review of this fragrance. I would like to get a chance to check it out. Base notes sound nice. Thanks for the giveaway
    I would like the Discovery Kit. USA

  • Oh my gosh, you had me at oak moss,…and then Sycomore, prayers and meditation, and modern masterpiece. Robert has a lovely writing style; he really creates a story of the fragrance. If fortunate enough to win, I would choose the travel spray.
    Thank you for the giveaway.

  • Robert’s review has captured everything that I love and long for. It is why I moved to the mountains and also why I await winter’s arrival with each passing season. I welcome winter like a long lost friend. This scent might just be the one that can get me through the other seasons until winter arrives again.

  • That feeling, the transcendent renewing quiet of snow-covered woods, is what stood out to me in Robert’s review. The bitterness of the cold I could do without but thank you for reminding me of the beauty of the coming season.
    Evergreen sounds like an amazing scent–and so do the other fragrances in the line! I would choose the sample set.
    Thank you for the review and draw
    USA

  • I enjoyed Robert’s description of walking through snowy woods. It brings back memories of winter camping – getting past the coldness, but moonlit hikes in the stillness, almost hearing the snow fall, smelling the campfire leading back to the lodge.
    I’m in the US. I would choose the sampler set if I win – I would love to try these perfumes.
    Thank you for the very generous draw!

  • Parkstreeter says:

    Love this fragrance and love Thorn and Bloom always nice to support a local
    business (Massachusetts).

  • I love the description of walking in snow and that sensation of the muffled sounds and absolute quiet. I also love the smell of the burning wood. I am in the US and I would love to try the sampler set. Thank you

  • Robert captures the snowy winter walks in the forest that I know so well as a resident of the Berkshires in Massachusetts. I’d love to try this fragrance–I love the smoke, pine, and fir notes.
    I live in the USA.
    I’d choose the sampler set.

  • The description of the quiet hush that snowfall creates brings back special memories from childhood and I’ve always loved all things fir and pine.
    I would love to try the sampler set. I’m in the US.