VETIVER . MYRRH . CEDARWOOD
R E S T O R E
Petrichor. The ground after rain - not the rain.
Rain has no smell of its own. What you notice when it starts is the ground : oils that plants let go of during dry weather, held in soil and rock, then put back into the air all at once by the first drops.
It was named in 1964, from the Greek for stone and for the fluid said to run in the veins of the gods. Before that it was called, less usually, the smell of clay.
What there is: vetiver, for the wet root. Two cedarwoods rather than one — Atlas for the softer, balsamic side and Virginian for the dry. Three resins underneath. Lavender through the middle, and a little clary sage and ginger root at the top, which is as close as any material gets to the sharpness of a first drop.
Vetiver
Cedarwood Atlas
Cedarwood Virginian
Frankincense
Copaiba balsam
Myrrh
Lavender
Clary sage
Ginger root
T H E B L E N D
The wet root. The earth of it.
Soft wood. Faintly balsamic.
Dry wood. Pencil shavings.
Resin. The mineral end.
Resin. softer and warmer.
Resin. dry and dark.
Middle note. What holds it together.
Green, herbaceous, at the very top.
The sharp one.