TEONE REINTHAL
Ogwen & Eyriri
PERFUMER
Teone Reinthal
bergamot
jasminum grandiflorum
night-blooming jasmine
patchouli
oakmoss
labdanum
vetiver
‘The story of a star-crossed love affair and the mysterious forces that drive us apart, and bring us back together again. Ogwen is the river, singing to her beloved mountain Eyriri. This is her song. OGWEN & EYRIRI has a very long story. It began in 2005 with me driving a van across Wales a couple of times (south and then north), and being deeply moved by the powerful energies of the wild and beautiful Welsh landscape flashing by. I saw the fading tracks of trolls and elves, the shadows of ancient battles, twinkling rivers of poetry and starlight. Inspired by my impressions, I sought to conjure the fragrant essence of my very brief encounter with the magic of Snowdonia. I worked hard on a theme of jasmine chypres for years. Striving to craft the cold, new Spring of the UK – impressions that haunted me all the way home. I composed Botticelli, Earl Grey, Sylvana, Petite Brise, Zephyr and Eau Naturel. Each of them revealed myriad challenges of attempting to marry tart and sweet elements. I learned the pitfalls of floral oppression and the cruelty of thorny bitterness. Nonetheless, those compositions were eventually balanced, and became beautiful, and I wore them out. And yet…… O&E is the perfume, my best and last jasmine chypre. The one. – TRNP
Despite the wonderful description above and Teone crowning Ogwen & Eyeriri as her best work with jasmine and chypre facets; it is not one of my favorites that I’ve smelled from the brand. It is simply too green for my taste.
Grassy and earthy green, with a fresh opening. It reminded me of cut grass after a rainstorm, quite heavy and substantial for a green floral scent.
It doesn’t take long for more sweetness to get introduced with the earthiness, which makes for a much easier wear to someone like myself, who doesn’t like the grassy scent. Still, it remains very green. This is the foresty, floral, natural scent of jasmine without it’s warmer and sensual beauties to my nose.
While it gets a bit sweeter and more full-bodied, the bitter green tinge is powerful into the drydown and goes more into a hay-like direction. Earthy, but there is a minty herbal tinge as well. It’s not up my alley.
Nothing wrong with the execution here, but the grassy opening makes it an automatically tough sell for my taste.