HEIRLOOM OAK - Natural Botanical Perfume - Memoirs Armoire

GATHER

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HEIRLOOM OAK

| MEMOIRS ARMOIRE |

If furniture could talk. The lineage of immortal oak armoires. Hope chests still faintly fragrant, infusing the linens with memories. Marks of bourbon branded into the grains of the side table over time. Naturally beautiful shades of chestnut, bordeaux and amber, telling tales of times when all was written with pen and paper, when the fireplace warmed the rooms, and the scent of oak wood cords was the scent of belonging.

Style: Sweet Woods, Boozy

Strength: Pure Perfume extrait

bottles arrive with a travel cap - optional atomizer is included. please use the cap for purse or travel use.

Prominent Notes:

Oakwood

Heart Woods accord

Amber accord

Malt accord

Vanilla

Tonka

Immortelle Absolute

Agarwood

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The Personal, The Process, The Gathered

There are pieces in my life with incredible sentimental value, and I know I'm not alone in this attachment to heritage wood items.

My childhood oak furniture that survived the snow and rain that followed after a 100 foot pine tree fell through my roof above my head in a storm (luckily I also survived).

A wooden chest I inherited from my grandfather that holds my sacred altar items and my vintage perfumes, including his. This chest is in the photos.

My mother's enormous armoire which holds all of her dried medicinal herbs, formulas, and handmade skin creams, as well as holiday china and silver.

My oversized coffee table with industrial iron wheels and the chunkiest of woods.

Inaudible stories that rise from the telling marks of fallen tobacco embers, candles melted to the end, hot tea mugs without a coaster, wine glasses that dripped, or a favorite whiskey tumbler placed in a habitual spot.

Heirloom Oak is a nod to the sweetness of storytelling wood.

Smooth and beckoning, this perfume alchemy is a synergistic composition of 28 pure plant essences.

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100% Natural Botanical Artisanal Fragrance by GATHER perfume

A NOTE FROM THE PERFUMER

** Due to the fact that I - Gather perfume - use exclusively 100% natural materials, batch variance is to be expected. This is the same in any luxury, handcrafted art medium ( such as dance and opera) and agriculturally dependent arts such as viticulture, honey, or microbrewery. Gather perfumes are often limited editions for this reason, as well as the fact that some materials can only be obtained for small windows of time or no longer available at all. If you prefer uniformity in your fragrances, you may want to consider a more commercially available or mixed media brand.

With Love,
Ananda

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A "deeper" fragrance

I don't know how to describe perfumes. To me, this one has a slightly deeper, darker, warm fragrance. A kind of woodsy, smoky feel. It has a more masculine feel than floral perfumes, another plus for me. Delicious. I was allergic to perfumes for many years but have dicovered that as long as I use them sparingly the more natural scents are fine. Ananda also included a sample of Tea Season - also lovely.

Always lovely

I appreciate the opportunity to purchase small testers of the beautiful scents. And the packaging is lovely - I feel like I am getting a small present for me!

Memories of Wood

I am a big fan of wood - trees of any ilk; the cabinets my father made; the houses that my uncles in Vermont erected that are still standing a hundred years later. Wood lives with us, shelters us, and provides containers for our memories and earthly treasures. I was reminded of this in such a visceral, heart-opening way when I sniffed the sample of Heirloom Oak. Something happened to me that's never happened when smelling a perfume: I saw my father's workbench. The hours I spent in the sawdust there, when my father was my Oak and I grew in his shade. It was an exceptional memory, and I immediately purchased a bottle. For a scent to evoke something that intimate and resonant...that's a kind of living, real magic.

AMAZING HEIRLOOM OAK

Ananda included a sample with an order I placed. I wasn't prepared for how amazing this scent smells.
Immediately I placed an order for a bottle.
I sampled about 250-300 scents per year for the last 14 years. Rarely do I come across something that thrills me as much as Heirloom Oak does.
The quality of ingredients are first rate, and a perfect formula to show off the amazing nose.
BTW I had the same reaction to Vetiver Cocoa.
Quite addicting and will satisfy a craving for a good one every time.

Add another to my collection

This was another sample that my husband took and I had to revisit and when I did I just had to have it. The review that I left below still stands but I wanted to add that this is a perfume that my husband and I will share because it is a true unisex fragrance. I also want to say at the rate I am going I will own most of Ananda's creations. I have always loved perfume but had to give it up because of headaches. Thanks to Ananda and other natural perfumers I can enjoy wearing scent again. I own other natural fragrances from different houses but I own the most from Gather. Her perfumes are unique, beautiful and I love them all. Thank you Ananda for giving me the gift of scent!

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