Spiritus / Land #2 Miller et Bertaux for women and men

As a ginger fan, this is right up my street. This perfume is fresh and aromatic, slightly masculine to my nose, but easily carried by a woman. The first spray reminds me of the 1980's powerhouse Esencia by Loewe, however this creation is far better behaved and dries down to a softer, cleaner scent. Highly recommended especially for summer.

This is one of the freshest, greenest, most easy to wear perfumes I have discovered in some months of testing - I love it so much I have ordered multiple decants from a seller in the USA - Miller & Bertaux's website being impossibly user-unfriendly. It lasts for many hours on my skin, and does not morph into something else entirely, but stays crisp and a little citrusy. For lover of floral greens with more emphasis on the green part, this is well worth a try. For me it is a 10/10!

Fresh Incense! I know it sounds like an oximoron but overall Spiritus/Land smells exactly like fresh incense. It opens with an incredibly realistic ginger note (but after a while you start to wonder if that was really ginger) and some herbaceous notes to create a quite original accord. Intriguing if not very pleasant, familiar but somehow weird. Everything is juxtaposed to an incensey base that adds to the fragrance a meditative aspect.

While I was waiting for the drydown I went totally crazy to understand this bizarre composition and arrived to this conclusion: It's mainly made of two different parts. On one side you have a very familiar accord that is clean, somehow green and fresh (I call it soap). On the other you have woods, spices and incense. The clash between the two parts gives birth to an odd composition that's quite unique but not completely successful.

Rating: 5/10 for the smell
8/10 for the challenging power
6.5/10 overall

This is very strange perfume, nevertheless beautiful and unique. As a big fan of spicy fragrances I have to admit I like it a lot however at the beginning the love was kind of painful from time to time. Before I bought Spiritus Land first I spayed it on the paper blotter and a little on the skin. So I was impressed and I didn’t have any objections to put it to my collection – it was my first choice for winter time two years ago. Of course next day before I went my work, I sprayed perfume over my body and clothes as well. How horribly I was surprised when everybody around me was asking who is eating chicken bullion. I realized it wasn’t any bullion it was me wearing Spiritus Land. During the weekend I spend many hours to understand what is going on (my body chemistry or something else?). Research was hard but finally I got answer. My suggestion is just avoid even touch of this perfume to your clothes. Really I have no idea at all what is going on but SL when touch fabrics immediately smells like meet soup. After morning shower spray it on your body and wait few minutes before wearing clothes. Than SL will develop as wonderful, spicy, woody scent. The main compounds, however not listed are cloves (in my opinion). They are mixed with cardamom and oriental spices you can find in Arabic markets. After 1-2 hours something unusual is happening, SL changes to fresh laundry smell. To the time I discovered SL I had experiences that fresh notes are always at the beginning – in the top of fragrances. Here is completely opposite direction, first the perfume is deep-woody and after while it begins clean. I can simply say it is wonderful and mysterious creation, but not for everybody. It was made with passion for those people who like to analyze what they are wearing. It can bring you to the fantastic world of oriental places different than common perfumes so called “spicy-oriental” created for mass market.

I don't like this on me but i think i would love it on my husband. Gonna give it to him. It's spicey!

A laundry. A clean bathroom. A space where a lot of different detergents (all with different aroma's) have been used. Which in general is not a bad thing, but I don't need a perfume which smells like this. Try before you buy, because as you can see, the opinions on this one are quite different.

An esoteric scent of the opening of ginger
sweet and leafy nuances' with fiery and dry cardamom left drying outside to capture the intoxicating properties of it's scent spices of cinnamon and curry
makes it defined dries to an powdery touch
of Rose. the drying down is deep of Tobacco plant used in some south american
rituals and incense floating in a fixed
time around a deity like ghosts.

this scent conjures images of an Taoist
temple on a highest cliff octagon shaped
ceiling with beautiful tapestry of dragons standing side by side the Eight
statues represent the eight Immortals
with it's bright colors of Red gold and black with incense in a shape of coils
burns though the all the night.

the silver gilt of the full moon from with it's white beams that illuminates
upon porcelain faces.