UNCHARTED- MY OBSERVATIONS:
DISCLAIMER: I AM NOT A PROFESSIONAL & THIS IS SOLELY MY NOSE AND EVALUATION
I have so many fragrances at this point and i want to become more experienced in the art of blending and creating my own unique fragrances, so im going back to the basics. Conducting a perfumer profile of every fragrance or essential oil i own, training up my nose and understanding to become better equipped and knowledgable in the art and science of perfumery.
Uncharted was the fragrance I chose to begin with. It should be noted my fragrance profiles are always conducted with perfume blotter strips. SMELLING SOMETHING ONLY out of the bottle , is not how perfumers do it, and is not the best way to really get an understanding of the way a fragrance evolves over time.
The breakdown of my impressions, over time:
IMMEDIATE IMPRESSION:
Strong aquatic watery notes, smoky and masculine, sharp, earthy with hints of citrus.
Masculine, deep, smoky and smells expensive
AFTER 15 MINUTES:
sharp , cedar notes, definitely aquatic and watery, with green leaves and touches of ozone.
Smoky initial impression seems to be fading
New notes detected: green leafy bitters, with some moss and herbaceous aromatics; giving off an outdoor woodsman vibe
AFTER 30 MIN:
Sharp, earthy like soil, detect some musk type possibly olibanum, citrus around the corners with aquatic notes still very present
Detecting new notes: possibly cedar, vetiver, maybe some balsam. Dry like vibe.
AFTER 2 HOURS:
Spicy, smokey, olibanum quality
Can now detect that leather like scent; makes me think of warmed in the sun horse saddle straps
Very deep, masculine, like fores meets woods, incense & leather straps; getting an oak barrel type visual with depth and smokey earth and some warmth as it dries down
AFTER 4-5 HOURS:
The aquatic notes seem to dance with the leather and resinous notes
Still sharp, biting kind of “woodyness” , detecting a bitter citrus tang around the edges
Imagery is strong regal balsam woods drenched in water; like a night in the forest after a hard rain
AFTER 8 HOURS:
SORRY fell asleep and missed this scent “session” LOL
AFTER 24 HOURS:
THE DRY DOWN: grassy green, strong of leather notes with the aquatic dance and a soft smokey finish
Detecting more in your face sharp cedar; like freshly sharpened pencil or pencil shavings
Very masculine like a timber cutting tree man
FINAL THOUGHTS: using it as a blender to elevate or give depth to other fragrances; may try adding warming notes to see how that behaves; possibly using citrus like yuzu or lime to see if it brightens it up a bit; even wondered how it would pair with some real vanilla to soften it a bit…
Overall this is my NOSE Impression if you will, of UNCHARTED. I hope this helps someone.
*** I SHOULD MAKE MENTION: all of my scent descriptions were UNBIASED as i DID NOT use the description listed here on the website until AFTER the 4 hour mark. This is a challenge I'm doing specifically to train my nose and see what I can pick up BEFORE I reference what notes the supplier is stating are in the fragrance.
