Like a Nightingale

Multi award-winning fragrance journalist and co-host of On the Scent podcast Suzy Nightingale has a wonderful way with words.  She’s been obsessed with scent since age 9 and has been writing about it about it professionally for the last 15 years. When she dialled in to the Geelong Fragrance Fair from London, the room was all aflutter:

• What would Suzy say about Australian niche fragrance?
• Did she like anything she had been delivered? 
• How is Australian niche perfume measuring up to the best that Europe has to offer? 
• What would she say about Liminus?!

To make the occasion even more nail biting, In a nearby room and couldn’t hear a word.  It was thrilling to hear little snippets repeated to me after her talk, and I was very happy to be flooded with people who wanted to try Thamnic.  I recently had the chance to sate my curiosity and here's what Suzy had to say:

“The next one is by a house called Liminus… it's Thamnic. Here we are in the rainforest…I think a lot of foresty fragrances make you feel like you're looking up staring at the sky through a canopy of trees...but to me, this makes me feel like I’ve burrowed down in a nest”

“I’m on the forest floor, you can smell the ferns, you can smell the bracken and leaves. This could easily have gone in the comfort category”

For context, Suzy discussed 10 Australian perfumes that she grouped into 5 moods...
- comfort
- urban mindfulness
- escapism
- stillness
- strength

She then went on to talk about the wear...

"When it first went on the blotter and on my skin it is really quite green ... almost like petrichor, like it’s just rained and then it feels the sun has come out and ... that hay like smell when grass has been really wet and the sun is really warm and there is almost a tobacco nuzzley aspect to it, you’ve surrounded yourself with bracken and leaves and you’ve burrowed down and you just feel protected by the forest.”

“Sometimes you just need that forest to escape to, and this to me, is that bottle.”

So if you can’t get to a rainforest today and you need one in your pocket Thamnic is for you.

I think it's a tiny bit crazy and also utterly wonderful that a Tasmanian scent made it's way to the nose of a fragrance writer in London, who described it so beautifully ... the ideas behind it, the peace of the forest and the feeling of being enveloped by intricate greenery.  How wonderful that a sense of place can translate through scent to someone who's never visited Tasmania – magic!