M2 Black March (2006)
by CB I Hate Perfume

Starts out intriguingly earthy but quickly morphs into an intense accord of BEETS. I know this vegetable too well to smell anything else, and while the picture painted is vivid, it's not a smell I want on my skin.

***Edited to add: I finally got around to retesting. Not downright scary like last time, but still not something I think I'd wear. Reasonably convincing smell of raw earth, but the drydown just smells dirty and not in a fun way. Rotting flowers.

I have no idea how to rate this one. The most disturbing perfume I've ever worn. The earth smell is raw and dark and the airy flowers that float over it only emphasize the strangeness. I heard this scent compared to "fresh graves" and can't get the image out of my head. I want to retest it, but I'm honestly scared to put it on my skin. When I wore it, it lasted for hours and every time I sniffed it I felt my hair stand on end.

Well, this smells like most of the CB oeuvre -- which is to say thin, somewhat sweet, slightly green. This has the virtue of being non-offensive. It doesn't irritate me, and it does smell reasonably like damp earth and green growing things. But there is nothing here to get me enthusiastic. Rather pallid.

This is exactly as others here have mentioned. The black Earth smell is super-potent, and any florals pretty subdued on me shortly after putting in on my skin. Maybe an atomizer would have helped this. However, after the few florals did disappear, it was a bit hard to stick with it. Although interesting in the sense that they can make a scent that smells like this, a small sample will be plenty for me to smell once in a while for artistic appreciation. I can't imagine anyone wanting to smell like this...but artistically, pretty amazing stuff!!!

Hmm. This evoked with vividness my grandmother's utility room of 1958, cold and dark and dank in winter, with mold and dirt in the corners where the wintry rains have leaked in. Very pungent soil and damp and mildewiness. After awhile the smell of the wet soil in her potted plants nearby became more obvious, with promises of life stirring in the living plants and the rich soil.This is a very strange walk down memory lane, and interesting and original in its own way; but as a perfume? I can't imagine wanting to smell like this, but am glad I have a sample in my perfume musuem. Maybe for old gardeners now stuck in nursing homes it would be a welcome reminder of the soil, but otherwise I can't think of a use for it.

Mossy-green, wet, with strong dirt undertones. An idealized but perfectly natural rendition of earth in spring thaw--just what it claims to be, and as such, a remarkably evocative achievement. But soon enough (too soon?) it dries to a pleasant, nondescript floral-sweet scent (is it the "sap" advertised in the notes?)which I would call a bit anticlimactic. If it is meant to suggest a bloom after a thaw, it is not quite there--but the attempt is very laudable.

Wearability would depend on how much you might want to smell like the damp corner of a greenhouse. Which is pretty cool, if that's your thing.