Yggdrasil Perfume

I love this scent--It is the scent of a spruce-fir forest that I have been looking for and have struggled to find. Most "forest" scents tend to smell like a lot of other things with a little natural tree scent thrown in, but in this one, the sap and sharpness of needles is front and center. One thing I really appreciate about Arcana Wildcraft is that their scents actually match pretty well with their listed notes. Because of this, I took a chance based on the listed notes and blind bought the 10ml spray when the samples were sold out. I did not regret this at all. It has quickly become one of my favorites!

Arcana Wildcraft Yggdrasil is a scent that immediately called to mind a passage I'll never forget from Robert MacFarlane's The Wild Places: "All travelers to wild places will have felt some version of this, a brief blazing perception of the world's disinterest. In small measures, it exhilarates. But in full form it annihilates."
An exhilarating, annihilating coniferous expanse. Primeval pillars connecting earth to heavens; green darkness sleeping, dreaming, without witness, beyond time; crystallized needles trapped in amber tears dripping slowly for millennia; smoke suspended in frozen-canopied cathedral stillness, heartwood rings marking winters too numerous to count; the forest's indifference, wilderness continuing its slow communion with eternity while you stand mute and temporary and already forgotten. This is a scent that also reminds me of Ivan Shishkin's wild, remote forested landscapes.