L'Air des Alpes Suisses

The first spray delivers an almost shocking burst of alpine herbs—bitter, bright, and bracingly fresh, as though you've crushed gentian leaves and mountain sage between your palms. The air accord creates a translucent quality, a sense of atmospheric clarity that makes the green notes feel three-dimensional rather than flat. There's a cool, almost mentholic tingle that gradually reveals peppery spice lurking beneath.

As the initial herbal intensity softens, a curious powdery character emerges, dusting the greenness with something simultaneously vintage and mineral. The spicy notes intensify, bringing warmth without sweetness, whilst the green accords shift from sharp herbaceousness to something rounder and more forest-floor—moss, young bark, chlorophyll. It's the olfactory equivalent of walking from exposed mountaintop into the shelter of a coniferous wood.

The woods finally assert themselves—larch with its subtle turpentine edge, beech bringing a smooth, almost nutty creaminess. That soil accord becomes prominent, not dirty but genuinely earthy, like humus and decomposing pine needles. The powder and a ghostly green shimmer persist, creating a skin scent that's quiet but distinctive, woodsy yet still recognisably alpine in character.