A Prairie Perfume Companion
High Line by Bond 9
Spring is really coming. You can smell it in the air. It is a mixture of damp earth and grass. This gets me in the mood for spring fragrances. I put away the incenses and thick ambers and fully embrace the flowers. I want to smell pretty.
High Line is bringing the pretty. This fragrance was inspired by the High Line park system. This green sanctuary hovers 30 feet above the street level of the meatpacking district. Wild flowers pepper the railroad tracks and concrete planks. Bond wanted to create a fragrance that captured the park setting amidst the city grit.
High Line is a green fragrance. It is not a traditional grass scent. This is not the freshly mowed lawn from your back yard. The grass is called Purple Love Grass. It is a prairie land perennial. It is dry and hay-like. This note is evident throughout the drydown of the fragrance.
As it settles, an earthy rose and Indian Rhubarb note appear. Rhubarb smells like a tarted up strawberry.
The middle stage of High Line is aquatic. It smells like water. Nothing like the Hudson. It does not smell like grime or metal. More like a pond filled with lily pads. Very prairie marshland. This watery vibe is created with sea moss and musk notes.
The finale is a heady mix of woods.
The official list of notes are bergamot, purple love grass, indian rhubarb, red leaf rose, orange flower water, tulips,grape hyacinth, sea moss, teakwood, musk and bur oak.
High Line will be at Bond counters at Saks Fifth Avenue this month. A 50 ml bottle will retail for $145 and a 100 ml bottle will retail for $220. Visit www.bond9.com for details.
Disclosure: A sample vial was provided by Bond 9
Credit: Bond 9
Labels: Bond 9 Fragrances, Fragrance, sample vial
posted by Annieytown @ 4:04 AM
7 Inspired Comments
7 Inspired Comments:
High Line is mostly a floral musk on me, with, as you noted, a strong aquatic and rustly grass note. Musk grows stronger over time. Smells a bit as if Astor Place were the blueprint in floral abstraction.
That sounds wonderful. I wonder if I can find that at the Bond counter at Neimann's here in SF?
I haven't tried this one yet, but the bottle design is enough for me! This would be a gorgeous Easter gift!
Great review, Ms. Blogdorf! I am not usually a fan of anything marine or aquatic or green or grassy, but this one is totally captivating! It's the perfect Spring scent to get us in the mood for warm breezy weather, and we sure do need that here in Ohio! I'm loving my sample and contemplating a bottle.
Meg, I was thinking the same thing about the bottle! I would love to use that as decoration for my dresser. I do not usually wear perfume.
Suzanna: I got the musk too.
I do think that grass saved it from being too water-like.
I do not fare well with watery based, freesia fragrances.
Lexi: It might not be at the counter yet. Ask your SA if they have samples or a lab bottle. I did get my postcard from the bond NYC store.
Meg: I can not wait to see it in person. It looks lovely online.
Patti: I agree!
Deconstruction: You might be able to score an empty on Ebay or MUA after a few months.
This new fragrance have been on the top of my list after reading so much about it. When i was @ Miami's Sak's Fifth Ave 2 wks ago I came across the sample bottle. It was exactly how Annie had describe with all these components. Loved it so much & now i have a bottle with me at home=)
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