The Harmonist · 2020

Golden Wood Parfum

The Harmonist Golden Wood
Longevity Very long8-12 hours
Projection ModerateFills your personal space
Polarising Mixed
woody sweet warm grounded

sunlit mandarin peel over beeswaxed wood

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About This Perfume

The Harmonist Golden Wood comes across as sunlit mandarin peel over beeswaxed wood. It opens with mandarin orange, bitter orange and bergamot, moves into beeswax, guaiac wood and pear and settles on tonka bean, oak and cabreuva. It reads unisex.

This parfum is best in spring, fall and winter and is easy to wear day or night. It suits casual days. Released in 2020.

Wearers report that it lasts a solid half day on skin, and projects to about arm's length.

Is it right for you?

  • Best for: anyone after something woody and sweet for casual days.
  • Sample first if: woody is new territory for you.
  • Skip if: you dislike citrus fragrances.

Around $295.

Explore more: More from The Harmonist · Woody perfumes · Bitter orange perfumes · Bergamot perfumes

Concentration
Occasion
Casual
Projection
Gender lean
The verdict

Best for

Best for
  • Casual
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The Brand

The Harmonist

The Harmonist is a niche house built on a feng-shui five-element concept: the line is organised around elemental energies (Yin / Yang, Wood / Fire / Earth / Metal / Water), with each fragrance paired to an elemental system. Scendira has 17 perfumes from The Harmonist, priced at about $176 to $499. Talk about The Harmonist in the communities Scendira tracks centres on The Harmonist Hypnotizing Fire, The Harmonist Moon Glory and The Harmonist Guiding Water.

A closer look at the picks

On The Harmonist Hypnotizing Fire (2016), expect warm vanilla, clove spice, smoky resinous oud; it starts with clove and pepper tree and settles on Bourbon vanilla, benzoin and oud. The Harmonist Moon Glory (Parfum, 2020) reads as creamy honeyed fruit tea with florals, opening on jasmine sambac and Chinese lychee and drying down to Australian sandalwood, Peru balsam and hinoki wood. The Harmonist Guiding Water (Parfum, 2016) is described as cool ocean air, watery watermelon with florals, with aquatic notes and ozonic notes up top and lily, pink pepper and white musk underneath.

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FAQ

Common questions.

It smells like sunlit mandarin peel over beeswaxed wood. It opens with mandarin orange, bitter orange and bergamot, moves into beeswax, guaiac wood and pear and settles on tonka bean, oak and cabreuva.

Wearers report that it lasts a solid half day on skin, and projects to about arm's length.

It is best in spring, fall and winter. It is easy to wear day or night. It suits casual days.

It reads unisex.

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