Wild Hunt CB I Hate Perfume for women and men

i found this scent FASCINATING but i'm not sure i'll wear it much. it truly has the feeling of being outdoors in the woods - perhaps just after dawn when everything has the night's dew on it. i put it on this morning and was heading out and my wife asked me "are you really going to go out smelling like a rotting log?" i laughed, but she wasn't wrong. it's that rich, earthiness thing and CB nailed it. very impressive scent!

This scent screams primal. I get a heady whiff of lush green vegetation, predominantly moss and wood, and bizarelly I can make out the smell of little mushrooms. I couldn't wear this regularly but it does transport you to another place. Wearing this almost makes me feel like I'm out of the city and on holiday!

This is the classier twin brother of Demeter's Thunderstorm. The earthy, primal, wet rock and moss smell appeals to me very much, as does the absence of anything remotely sweet. As long as it lasts longer than Demeter I'm in heaven.

With further research I find that CB I Hate Perfume is actually Christoper Brosius, who is the nose behind Demeter. Now I understand the similarity.

This brings me back to my childhood:

It's been a rainy day, me and my father are going mushroom picking. We go to the forest. It's autumn, so the leaves are covering the wet ground. I sit down to pick a mushroom and inhale. The dirt, the almost rotten wet leaves, the mushrooms. That's what I feel from "wild hunt". And it's so amazing and addictive. Ok, not wearable, but so lovely.

Those were my happy days - me and my dad going mushroom picking. Too bad that grown ups (me) don't have time for that anymore.

This smells much more like spring to me than the heat of summer. The opening of this brings to mind the very specific scent of new growth revealed from under a pile of thawed out leaves. Maybe musty dirt, wet, still yellow-green grass and little mushroom sprouts. It then dries down to something much sweeter and more wearable. Something like hedges and coco mulch. I would recommend using the absolute if you want to smell this stage without your nose pressed against your wrist.The water perfume stays very close to the skin.

The genius of Christopher Brosius is that he creates olfactory memories. In an instant, you are at a certain place, a certain time. This is a powerful gift to be able to transport people, and I have read many reviews of some of his other creations that send people back in time, to when they were young, playing with grandparents that are now long gone. Very special.
Wild hunt is not so evocative for me (unlike At the Beach 1966) but nevertheless it transports me straight to a garden centre I used to go to with my mother as a young child. Garden centres weren't the big business they are nowdays. Back then it was row upon row of potted plants of all varieties, dripping wet, and the owerpowering smell of wet foliage, mulch, compost and soil. Underfoot was the crunch of gravel with big muddy pot holes to avoid!
I find myself using this frangrance as a comfort scent- just before bedtime drifting off to sleep with happy thoughts of gardening...

Christopher Brosius is a genius, his ideas and work put me in awe when I learned about them and got a chance to smell them for myself.

I love this particular fragrance, because for one, it completely without a doubt smells like what its supposed to. Second, it takes me to another place, a place I dont get to witness and experience where I live, it takes me deep inside a moist thick forest full of greens, moist dirt, leaves scattered across the floor, fungus and even small flowers. It lets me escape.

At first this scent smells like I explained above, a thick forest with damp soil/dirt and leaves all over, and when I say damp soil/dirt I mean wow I feel like im laying in it, NOBODY can create this smell better than Christopher Brosius himself. It slowly becomes more of a pine smell with the dirt still lingering after some time which is quite nice. Once it starts to fully dry down and settle more, I begin to get hints of (believe it or not) Violet. It's light but when I get this note it brings Tom Ford's Black Violet to mind. It truly is beautiful.

I personally love this fragrance, it may seem hard to wear at the beginning but once it drys down it really is beautiful and very wearable. I'm a very visual and imaginative person, so I really enjoy wearing this when reading a book with a forest setting in it, or even watching a movie with the same setting. It really makes me feel like im THERE.
I suggest if the notes appeal to you and you really want that scent, to try it for yourself, you won't be let down.

Christopher Brosius says of Wild Hunt:
"This is the fourth scent in my series of primal smells. Wild Hunt is the scent of an ancient forest in the heat of a summer afternoon. It is a blend of Torn Leaves, Crushed Twigs, Flowing Sap, Fallen Branches, Old Leaves, Green Moss, Fir, Pine and Tiny Mushrooms."

I bought it from his website and it smelled as described. He uses accords which he creates himself. Christopher Brosius's scents reveal themselves in layers.

"Wild Hunt" opens with earthy and woody scents. It is followed by the scent of fir and pine. Next i get hints of spices, although i can't identify which. After this comes the scent of hidden flowers, not light, not strong, but somewhat heady and seductive, yet the spice and woods remain.

I am a now a fan of CB I Hate Perfume and have purchased 4 others, none of which are currently in the Fragrantica data base.

I hope i have the opportunity to review them as well.