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Secret Garden was created during the Letters to A Fellow Perfumer series on Nathan Branch's blog. Nathan suggested naming this perfume after the 1910 novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett about a young girl who herself blossoms after she discovers a barren secret garden and brings it back to life. Like fitting a key in a lock, when you inhale Secret Garden, you enter a redolent and sensual wild garden. To create the heady and exotic floral experience, it includes two historical animal essences: very old civet bought from a retired perfumer and castoreum tinctured from the beaver. Secret Garden was launched in 2011. The nose behind this fragrance is Mandy Aftel.
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This fragrances are very-very nice indeed! Secret Garden is a very radiant fragrance (sweet floral and raspberry), usually natural fragrances sit very close to my skin.
The first and general impression is a flower garden in the sun, but at the same time it smells animalic. I like the raspberry note in it very much!
Oud Luban is a very comforting oud fragrance, it's solid, so it's smooth, for me it's more about Frankincense (olibanum), than oud. A light orange sweetness at the beginning is amazing.
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