Blasted Heath was launched by niche fragrance house Penhaligon’s in 2015. Created by master perfumer, Alberos Moriallas, to capture “the extreme, wild and passionate British landscape; that moment where the Land meets the Sea and untamed energy explodes".

It opens with the smell of the sea – an aquatic accord deepened with the smell of seaweed bolstered with herbaceous clary sage. It smells like the salty spray from a roiling sea when the seaweed has been churned to the surface. The green herbaceous opening is carried into the heart with the smell of green leaves and marks a shift from sea to land. Then, it gets woody with a light, clean and sheer woody note that just belongs here. This is from Clearwood™, a material created by Firmenich, which has the woodiness of patchouli without the dirty earthiness. If I miss my dirty patchouli, I don’t mind because what comes next is a delicious whiff of tobacco and boozy whiskey – nothing harsh or loud, just a gentlemanly declaration of masculinity. The woodiness of the heart becomes the backbone of the base with dark, earthy, woody patchouli, cedarwood, gaiacwood and vetiver.

On me the drydown is a woody, warm skin scent with whiffs of salty sea air, smoke and an elegant earthiness that’s so smooth and refined, a woman could carry it off easily.

Notes: Aquatic accord, seaweed clary sage, green leaves, Clearwood™, tobacco, whiskey, patchouli cedarwood, gaiacwood, vetiver, musk.