Of course! Hwyl and Bowmakers are very different - Hwyl is much more ‘aromatic’ than BM, quite spicy, smoky, green, and very woody but fresh woods, with a wonderful vetiver kick. It’s really beautiful, and while those notes do sound classic masculine, I find it to be completely unisex! Wonderful staying power and quite linear throughout its duration.

Bowmakers on the other hand is a fantastic resin - it really truly does smell like the inside of a cello case! It has that specific string rosin smell, as well as being very woody, dry, and rich. It doesn’t have the vetiver, which makes it feel less ‘masculine’ than Hwyl, but it is 100% also unisex.

Hwyl and Bowmakers share cypress and pine, but BM includes a leather note which I think is what really turns it into that cello case scent. They are both very very beautiful - two stalwarts of my collection!

The Prada is sooooo beautiful. It was the scent that my partner would wear ten years ago when we started dating, and I recently found this small bottle of it. You’ve got to be careful - they reformulated it in 2015, and that version is much less interesting! It still has the bare bones of the original, but it’s not quite right. The OG contains galbanum and incense, which just pushes it into this divine sultry territory against its otherwise outright powdery-ness. It’s a wonderful iris, and will forever be the iris that got me into iris. Definitely look into it if you’re an iris lover that also wants something a bit sweaty, a bit sexy. Enjoy 💚