When first applied, you get a blast of rain and herbal sage, pine and a touch of creosote. It has a slight bit of our High Desert perfume odor but if High Desert were completely drowned in rain and had pinon, ponderosa and deep char notes. The smoke/fire accord is very resinous, like burning pitch. It is deep, not an acrid smoke or bbq but a thick sap on fire, carried by impeding storm winds from a distance. It sits just at the base of this fragrance and is awash in rain and desert plants. The rain/creosote bush scent does not last for hours into the dry down aside from a trace but it is present for some time. The aroma does head more herbal and woody but there is no mistaking that through the whole wear of this perfume, you will pick up different desert elements. This is not a creosote forward perfume; the creosote itself is subtle but the perfume smells drenched with wet desert plants, sand, wood and canyon smoke.
