Folkwinds
Midwinter Storm
Midwinter Storm 以發酵蘋果的冰冷氣息與刺人的黑麥揭開序幕，隨即坍縮為一枚濃密而帶粉感的鳶尾（orris）核心，濃縮到近乎不像一種香調，而更像一種實體物質——潔白、粉質而冰冷，由三種各異的沉香（oud）與如溫熱奶油般豐潤的檀香基調深深錨定。
創作背景
Midwinter Storm 是 Folkwinds Reserve 系列的作品，構思為一款全譜系的鳶尾根獨奏香水，以所有可取得的天然鳶尾原料及分離物為素材，在盡可能高的濃度下層層疊構。粉質鳶尾根基底以頂級沉香木為根基，並以檀香取代更為常規的苯乙醇安息香。此作於 2026 年以嚴格限量 50 瓶發行。
調香師
Midwinter Storm 由 Jono Bornstein 創作，他正是 Folkwinds 香水目錄背後的調香師，代表作包括 Cloud Illusions、Santi Ana 及 By-And-By。
花香
盛放中的柔軟花瓣
綻放花朵那圓潤帶露的氣息，柔軟微甜，泛著粉質如花蜜般的光暈。它浪漫而溫柔，喚起暮春的庭園，與貼著肌膚的一抹輕盈。
木質
鋸開木材的乾燥紋理
雪松刨花、檀香與乾燥岩蘭草根的氣息，一股經砂磨的樹脂暖意，襯著一絲鉛筆盒般的粗糲。它沉穩而從容，是令香氣顯得莊重而持久的靜默骨幹。
粉香
妝點肌膚的柔軟低語
鳶尾根、紫羅蘭與細緻爽身粉那絲絨般、略乾的柔軟，宛如撲面粉，或被肌膚溫暖的潔淨亞麻。它親密、精緻而帶懷舊氣息，將香氣暈染成一片溫柔而柔軟的薄霧。
清新
清涼水後的潔淨空氣
一種清脆通透的明亮，讓人聯想到清涼的水、洗淨的肌膚與開闊的空氣，常綴著一抹果皮或水生的提揚。它潔淨而輕盈，瞬間沁涼而毫無負擔，宛如雨後步出室外。
乳脂
奶潤乳香與溫熱肌膚
一種奶潤乳脂般的柔軟，讓人聯想到溫熱的蒸奶、奶皮或不帶甜味的椰肉。它豐盈而包覆，將花香與木質撫平成某種柔嫩而略帶懷舊的氣息，宛如溫熱乳品帶來的撫慰。
冰蘋果酒
Orchard fruit gone warm and faintly boozy
What it is
An evocative accord rather than a single raw material, built to conjure pressed apples fermenting toward cider. Perfumers reconstruct it from fruity esters, apple aroma molecules, a touch of acetic tang and warm spice, since fermented cider itself is not distilled for scent.
How it smells
Crushed ripe apple, sweet and juicy, edged with a tart vinegary sparkle and a soft yeasty, faintly boozy warmth. Mulling spices of cinnamon, clove and nutmeg often hover at the edges, giving an autumnal, just-pressed orchard impression that feels cozy and a little tipsy.
In perfumery
A heart accord driving fruity-gourmand and seasonal autumn compositions. It blends with cinnamon, caramel, brown sugar, woods and ambers, and sits naturally beside other orchard and harvest notes. It anchors cozy fall and apple-orchard themed fragrances and home scents.
Good to know
The bright apple lift in such accords often leans on alpha-damascone, a rose-ketone prized for its fruity apple effect with floral and plum nuances. So beneath the juice and spice a cider note can carry a surprising soft rosy glow from that single molecule.
黑麥香料
Caraway-dark crust of warm rye loaf
What it is
Rye Spice is the warm, aromatic facet of rye grain and its bread rather than a single distilled oil. Perfumers reconstruct it from caraway, cumin and fennel-type seed materials layered over toasted-grain and yeasty accords, echoing the dark loaf that rye flour bakes into.
How it smells
Astringent, peppery caraway leads, edged with anise coolness and warm cumin. Beneath sits toasted crust, a sourdough tang and a faintly earthy, molasses sweetness. The overall impression reads dry, grainy and rustic, more savoury bakery than dessert, with a lingering seeded warmth.
In perfumery
Used as a gourmand-spice bridge, it lends edible warmth to amber, tobacco and leather bases and pairs with coffee, fig, immortelle and dark woods. It anchors playful bread-and-grain accords, the kind of rustic loaf effect explored in Demeter's Rye Bread and savoury niche gourmands.
Good to know
Caraway, the seed that defines rye's character, is not the grain itself but a spice baked into the dough. Its pungency comes from S-carvone, the mirror-image twin of the R-carvone that makes spearmint smell cool and sweet, the same atoms built the opposite way.
藍莓
A rare all-natural impression, painted from fruits and resins
What it is
There is no blueberry essential oil — the fruit yields nothing usable by distillation or expression, so a true natural blueberry simply does not exist as a raw material. What artisanal natural-perfume houses offer instead is a hand-built accord: an artful impression assembled entirely from natural ingredients, with not a single synthetic in the blend. It is a reconstruction, an interpretation of the berry, never an extract of it.
How it smells
Soft, plump and gently jammy, with a cool blue-purple sweetness and a quiet green-leaf edge that keeps it from turning sugary. Because it is woven from naturals, it reads rounder, warmer and more three-dimensional than a single fruity chemical — the smell shifts and breathes as it dries rather than holding one flat note. The effect is less photo-real and more painterly: a suggestion of blueberry rather than a sharp snapshot.
In perfumery
The accord is coaxed from natural fruity and aromatic materials — think jammy fruit-toned absolutes, berry-leaning floral and herbal extracts, a whisper of wine-like or balsamic facets, and soft musky naturals to give body. A perfumer layers these so the brain assembles 'blueberry' from many honest parts, none of which is the fruit itself. It lends a fresh, fruity glow to the top and early heart, flattering florals and soft woods.
Good to know
This all-natural route is the connoisseur's path and a genuine rarity: natural materials are costly, vary batch to batch, and demand real skill to balance into a convincing berry. The trade-off for that expense and labor is honesty and depth — a living, slightly unpredictable accord rather than a fixed one. If a fragrance smells of blueberry yet declares itself fully natural, it is this patient reconstruction at work, not a bottled fruit.
白雲杉
Cool northern forest air made fragrant
What it is
A tall evergreen conifer, Picea rubens, native to eastern Canada and the northeastern United States, ranging from the Adirondacks down the Appalachians. The aroma material is an essential oil steam-distilled from the freshly cut needles and small twigs of the tree.
How it smells
Softer and sweeter than most evergreen oils, with a clean balsamic, resinous heart. It opens fresh and green with a crisp coniferous snap, then reveals gentle woody warmth and a subtle fruity facet, rounder and less sharp than pine or fir needle oils.
In perfumery
A fresh top-to-heart note bringing airy, forest-clean character to woody, aromatic and fougere accords. It pairs with cedar, fir balsam, vetiver and citrus, lending a crisp, outdoorsy evergreen lift especially suited to cool-weather and coniferous compositions.
Good to know
Spruce gum, the hardened resin of red and black spruce, was chewed across rural North America and sold by John Curtis from 1848 as the continent's first commercial chewing gum. Red spruce also supplies prized resonant tonewood for guitar and violin soundboards.
鳶尾
Powdered violet rooted in patient buried earth
What it is
Orris is the aroma material from the rhizome of iris flowers, chiefly Iris pallida grown in the hills of Tuscany. The roots are harvested, dried and aged three to six years so enzymes slowly develop irones, then ground and steam-distilled into a waxy, ivory orris butter.
How it smells
A cool, powdery violet scent with a suede-like, almost edible carrot-and-raw-flour facet. It reads dry rather than sweet, evoking face powder, soft leather and damp soil, carrying a silvery, slightly metallic shimmer that feels both floral and rooty at once.
In perfumery
A heart and base material prized for its body and a powdery lift that smooths sharp florals and woods. It pairs with violet, rose, iris leaf and ambrette. It defines a whole lineage of refined powdery-iris and aldehydic-floral compositions.
Good to know
Orris ranks among the costliest naturals in perfumery. A ton of aged rhizome yields only about two kilograms of orris butter, and high-irone grades can exceed one hundred thousand dollars per kilogram, the cost driven by years of aging before any scent develops.
藍蓮花
The sacred water lily of pharaohs and dreams
What it is
Blue lotus is Nymphaea caerulea, the blue Egyptian water lily, a star-petalled flower rooted in Nile mud and ponds across North and East Africa. The blossoms are solvent-extracted with hexane into a concrete, then ethanol-washed into a thick, dark absolute that preserves their delicate aromatic compounds.
How it smells
Sweet and honeyed with a green, watery floralcy and soft fruity, lychee-like undertones, edged by an earthy, slightly spicy warmth and a waxy, powdery backbone. It opens cool and aquatic like a pond at dawn, then dries down resinous and balsamic, more meditative than bright.
In perfumery
A heart note prized for an exotic floral character bridging aquatic freshness and warm sweetness, typically dosed below five percent given its strength. Rare and costly, it appears in niche compositions and amber-incense accords built around ancient Egyptian and meditative themes.
Good to know
Ancient Egyptians revered the flower as a symbol of rebirth and the sun, depicting it on tomb walls and steeping it in wine for its mild psychoactive effect. It opens at dawn and closes at dusk, a daily cycle that tied it to resurrection myths.
木蘭原精
Rice-grain blossoms breathing fruit and green tea
What it is
Aglaia Absolute is solvent-extracted from the tiny golden flowers of Aglaia odorata, a shrub in the mahogany family known as the Chinese Perfume Tree or Chinese Rice Flower. Each bloom is barely the size of a rice grain, so yields are minute and the absolute remains genuinely rare.
How it smells
Sweetly fruity and floral, with juicy peach and pear flesh wrapped around a soft, leafy green-tea note. A gentle lemony radiance lifts the top, earning the plant the nickname mock lemon, while a quiet hay-like warmth settles underneath, giving an impression both luminous and rounded.
In perfumery
A precious natural used in small touches, it adds fruity-floral radiance and tea-like freshness to oriental, amber and East-Asian themed bouquets. It blends naturally with osmanthus, peach, oolong and forest-green accords, reading as a softer, sunnier cousin to osmanthus in fine fragrance.
Good to know
The plant belongs to Meliaceae, the same botanical family as true mahogany, an unusually woody lineage for so delicate a flower. Its yellow blooms are at their most fragrant by day, releasing a strong lemony-floral scent that gives the tree its perfume-plant name.
橡木苔
The damp green soul of the forest floor
What it is
Oakmoss is not a true moss but a lichen, Evernia prunastri, growing on oak and other deciduous bark across temperate Europe, notably the Balkans, France and Morocco. The harvested thalli are solvent-extracted into a dark, viscous concrete and absolute, the raw materials used in perfumery.
How it smells
Deeply earthy and forest-green, with damp bark, wet stone and a leathery, inky undertone. A dry, faintly bitter mossiness carries marine and tar-like facets. The effect is shadowy rather than fresh, evoking the cool floor beneath old trees after rain has soaked the ground.
In perfumery
A base note and the backbone of the chypre family, lending structure, depth and a vintage signature. It pairs classically with bergamot, labdanum and patchouli. It defines the great peach-spiced chypres and the green core of classic galbanum florals, plus countless mossy fougères and masculines.
Good to know
Oakmoss extracts contain atranol and chloroatranol, potent skin allergens the EU effectively banned in 2017. IFRA now requires reduced-allergen, low-atranol versions, capping these molecules to trace levels, which has quietly reshaped how the classic chypre smells in reformulated modern perfumes.
香草
The warm sweet heart of comfort itself
What it is
Vanilla comes from the cured seed pods of Vanilla planifolia, a climbing orchid native to Mexico now grown mainly in Madagascar, Réunion and Tahiti. Green pods are picked unripe, then blanched, sweated in the sun and slow-dried over months until they darken and develop their aroma and vanillin.
How it smells
Sweet, warm and creamy, with a balsamic depth recalling custard, caramel and dried fruit, a faint smoky tobacco-like edge sitting underneath. It opens soft and gourmand, then dries into a powdery resinous warmth that clings close to skin and reads richer than synthetic vanillin alone.
In perfumery
A base note prized for richness and lasting warmth, vanilla rounds sharp edges and anchors oriental and gourmand compositions. It pairs naturally with tonka, amber, sandalwood and spice. Many of the most enduring oriental and tobacco fragrances build their core around it.
Good to know
Vanilla ranks among the costliest spices because each orchid flower opens for one day and must be hand-pollinated, a technique devised in 1841 by Edmond Albius, a twelve-year-old enslaved boy on Réunion. Most commercial vanilla flavor now relies on synthetic vanillin.
銀虎紋木
The grain and warmth of trees themselves
What it is
A category rather than a single material, covering aromas from tree woods, roots and bark plus synthetics that extend them. It spans sandalwood, cedar, vetiver, guaiac and patchouli, drawn by steam distillation or solvent extraction, alongside lab-made woody-ambers like Iso E Super, made entirely by chemical synthesis.
How it smells
Dry to creamy, evoking sawn timber, pencil shavings, fresh resin and sun-warmed bark. Cedar reads pencil-sharp, sandalwood milky and smooth, vetiver earthy and rooty, guaiac smoky-sweet. As a group the impression is grounding, textured and faintly smoky, the backbone many compositions stand on.
In perfumery
Mostly heart and base material, woody notes give structure, longevity and a natural backbone tying a composition together. They support nearly every family, anchoring florals, ambers and fougeres. Modern woody-amber molecules drive countless contemporary scents, the dry cedar-vetiver register among them.
Good to know
Much of today's woodiness is synthetic, partly because natural sandalwood and rosewood were overharvested into protected status. A single molecule, Iso E Super, grew so dominant that an entire cult fragrance was built around it almost neat, near-imperceptible up close yet glowing on skin.
野生馬里瑙
Vaporous blue-green agarwood, camphor lifted over ripe fruit
What it is
Genuine agarwood (Aquilaria) distilled from trees grown on Borneo — the Indonesian Kalimantan side and the Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak, among the oldest rainforests on earth. The finest examples work from real, single-origin Bornean wood rather than a reconstructed "oud" base, so the oil carries the terroir of that specific island. Borneo's distinct species and soil yield a resin profile that no synthetic oud accord reproduces.
How it smells
The signature is a high, vaporous "blue-green" lift: bright camphor and a cool mentholated whistle that some describe as magic-marker or eucalyptus, riding above ripe stone fruit — pear, peach, apricot — and a soft berry sweetness. Underneath sits a clean, golden-woody, faintly creamy base with green-floral and powdery facets, never sour or fecal. It reads airy and luminous — more forest-canopy than forest-floor.
In perfumery
Borneo oud is prized as a base note that stays lifted and radiant rather than heavy, giving a composition long wear without the funk. It marries beautifully with rose, sandalwood, amber, and green florals, its fruity-camphor top brightening a blend where Hindi would darken it. In a natural attar it can be worn neat, the camphor evaporating to reveal the fruity-woody heart over hours.
Good to know
Compare it directly to its siblings: Hindi (Assam) oud opens animalic and barnyard — hay, dung, leather; Cambodi is sweet, sticky, and jammy with red berries; Thai/Trat leans warm and resinous. Borneo splits the difference and adds the camphoraceous blue note that is uniquely its own — drier and cooler than Cambodi, cleaner and fruitier than Hindi. Genuine Bornean agarwood is scarce and slow to distill, which is why a real single-origin oil commands its price.
紫色泰國馬拉肯西斯
Smoky leather and embered medicinal woods
What it is
Thai oud is distilled from Aquilaria crassna grown in eastern Thailand, with Trat province on the Cambodian border its most celebrated source, the same Cardamom Mountains range that yields Khmer oud. Wood is often aged for years before distillation, building the depth that defines the region's character.
How it smells
Leathery, smoky and medicinal, opening with a plush full-bodied smokiness like smouldering embers. A distinctive fruity sweetness threads through tannic leather, warm spice and honeyed tobacco, with camphorous, almost antiseptic facets that give Thai oud its bracing, resinous edge and a faint animalic warmth.
In perfumery
Thai oud bridges the sweet Cambodian and animalic Hindi styles, offering smoky leather depth without overwhelming funk, which makes it valued by artisanal distillers and blenders alike. Trat oils in particular are sought for a balanced, full-bodied profile that wears richly on skin.
Good to know
Sharing the Cardamom range with Cambodian crassna, Thai border ouds can echo Khmer sweetness while carrying more leather and smoke. Long pre-distillation ageing rounds the medicinal sharpness, and the best sustainably sourced Trat oil rivals far costlier origins for complexity.
檀香醇
Creamy meditative woods that breathe in slowly
What it is
Sandalwood oil is steam-distilled from the heartwood and roots of slow-growing Santalum trees, classically Santalum album of Mysore, India. As the wild Indian source neared collapse, plantations of the same species in tropical Western Australia now supply much of the world's perfumery-grade oil.
How it smells
Soft, creamy and milky, with a smooth woody warmth and a faintly sweet, rosy, almost buttery edge. It carries no sharpness, only a rounded balsamic depth. It stays remarkably steady on skin, glowing quietly for hours rather than opening and drying in distinct stages.
In perfumery
A base note valued as both scent and fixative, sandalwood lends creaminess, warmth and a meditative softness that binds compositions together. It pairs beautifully with rose, jasmine, vetiver and spice. Many meditative woody and incense fragrances celebrate it at their heart.
Good to know
Genuine Mysore sandalwood was so overharvested that India tightened export controls and the wild tree became vulnerable, with oil prices reported around two thousand dollars per kilogram. Plantations of Santalum album grown near Kununurra in Western Australia now sustainably recreate the original creamy profile.
香氣性格
前調酸爽而清冽，Ice Cider 與黑麥在一縷 White Spruce 光澤中切開，繼而鳶尾根以全力姿態登場，帶著澱粉質的清冽，橡木苔與一絲 Aglaia 的氣息在邊緣縈繞。中段，鳶尾根幾近難以察覺地柔化，香草與藍蓮花帶來隱約的花香甜蜜，卻絲毫未稀釋粉質。尾韻深沉而貼近肌膚，Borneo 與 Thai Oud 與檀香融合成樹脂般、肌膚溫熱的氣息，鳶尾根依然在場，卻由此刻起更多是以感受而非氣味呈現。
持久度
它在肌膚上留存的時長
這個量表讀取預期的佩戴時長，即香氣在肌膚上語語不休、直至消退的時數。標記接近低端，意味著僅有短暑數小時；標記推向遠端，則承諾一抹從清晨縈繞至夜晚的香氣。
香跡
它所留下香跡的範圍
這讀取香氣廣及你體外多遠、以及它所留下的軌跡。低者貼近肌膚，是只有近距離才能察覺的親密低語；高者則從適中、強勁一路攀升至浩大，盈滿整個房間，在你離去後仍繚繞於空氣中。
實驗性
獵給大膣而好奇者
非主流、勇於突破界線的香氣，為那些想引發話題、與眾不同的人而生。適合藝術而具挑戰性的調配：墨黑焦油、橡膠、發酵果實、金屬或動物般的稜角，都令人難以輕易喜愛。在這個轉盤上，明亮的金幣代表它能獎賞敢於冒險的鼻子，黃暗則表示它走的是穩妥路線。
辦公
精緻卻從不輇人
近距離的專業場合，香氣應只被身旁之人察覺。適合克制、潔淨、擴散適中的調配：整潔柑橘、柔和麝香與淡雅木質，讀來幹練而體貼。在這個轉盤上，明亮的金幣代表它適用於共用的工作空間，黃暗則表示它擴散得太過遙遠。
夜晚
夜幕低垄，氣勢漸濃
晚宴、小酣與夜晚外出的時光，香氣可以自信地漸深與擴散。適合更醇厚溫暖的調配：琥珀、樹脂、煙燻木質或在柔光下綻放的豐潤花香。在這個轉盤上，明亮的金幣代表香氣在日落後更顯生動，黃暗則表示它更適合白晝。
浪漫
近到足以被感受
為拉近彼此距離而生的親密時刻與約會之夜。適合溫暖、感性、在肌膚上低語的調配：奶潤花香、香草、柔和麝香，以及一抹誘人貼近的辛香或琥珀。在這個轉盤上，明亮的金幣代表它能營造誘人的氛圍，黃暗則表示它偏實用而非誘惑。
正式
為那些重要場合而精緻
婚禮、典禮、盛會與正裝出席的場合，需要沉穩與優雅。適合精緻、有結構且隱含權威的香氣：温潤木質、精緻花香、柔和皮革，不宣跟也不俏皮。在這個轉盤上，明亮的金幣代表它能承載恣當的莊重感，黃暗則表示它在這樣的場合顯得太過隨意。
休閑
悠閒時光的輕鬆舒適
毫無負擔的日常佩戴：跡街辦事、喔啡、與友小聚，或緩慢的週末。適合柔和、親和而清新自然的香氣，如清新柑橘、輕盈木質或柔和的肌膚暖意。在這個轉盤上，明亮的金幣代表香氣適合這些輕鬆時刻，黃暗則表示它需要更隤重的場合。
日夜
其氣質自然安落之處
這個滑桿推測香氣最適合的時刻。標記偏左，便傾向明亮通透，在日光與戶外中自在自如；向右滑動，氣質則轉為更深沉溫暖，是那種屬於夜晚與燭光房間的存在。
冬季
穿透冷峻空氣的暖意
冷冽空氣會減弱並讓香氣變得遲緩，因此冬季銾愛那些濃郁而溫暖的氣息：樹脂、煙燻、香草、皮革與琥珀辛香，在寒意中散發熱度。這個棒形圖顯示這款香氣在寒冷天氣中能多強勁地擐住並閃耀。
春季
溫和回暖中的清新花朵
溫和潔潤的空氣能將輕盈的調配美姙托起，因此春季青睞帶露花香、綠意莖梗、柔和粉感與通透柑橘，令人感到生機勃勃而非厚重。這個棒形圖顯示這款香氣多能與那清新、溫和回暖的季節相契合。
夏季
真實暑熱中的明亮與通透
高溫會強烈放大並推送香氣，因此夏季需要清涼、清脆、透氣的氣息：尖銳柑橘、鹹味海風、芳香草本與水潤清新，令人振奮而非甜膩。這個棒形圖顯示這款香氣在真實的暑熱中佩戴起來多舒適。
秋季
港涼日子裡的辛香暖意
隨著氣溫下降，更醇厚的材料不再令人窒息，因此秋季適合乾燥木質、溫暖辛香、菸草、琥珀與金色果香，那些令人感到溫馨而沉靈。這個棒形圖顯示這款香氣能多自然地融入那清脆而港涼的日子。
最佳穿著時機
專為最寒冷、最幽暗的季節而生，這是一款為需要存在感的正式夜晚而設的香水，為那些理解粉質並非柔弱而是分量的人而作。
為何選擇 Midwinter Storm 分裝
全球僅發行 50 瓶，一支分裝或許是接觸近年獨立調香界原料最為密集的鳶尾根香水之一的唯一現實途徑。
官方香調
冰蘋果酒 · 黑麥香料 · 藍莓 · 白雲杉 · 鳶尾 · 藍蓮花 · 木蘭原精 · 橡木苔 · 香草 · 銀虎紋木 · 野生馬里瑙 · 紫色泰國馬拉肯西斯 · 檀香醇
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