DSH Perfumes Colorado for AMERICAN PERFUMER® Review + Rocky Mountain Draw

February 23, 2019May 3, 2019

The Sleeping Lady – Gail Gross ©

“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy…"- John Muir

John Muir c 1903 via Wikipedia

John Muir, Scottish-American writer, naturalist and preservationist, founder and first president of the Sierra Club, was the man considered by many to be the "father" of our American National Park System. Over time his uniquely American love affair with nature, with sweeping landscapes, dense forests, open skies and formidable mountains, gave birth to our treasured, publicly owned open spaces and to those shared jewels of American life, our exquisite National and State Parks.

DSH Perfumes Colorado for AMERICAN PERFUMER®

In 2018, Dave Kern of AMERICAN PERFUMER®, a retail boutique and perfume gallery in Louisville Kentucky devoted solely to American artisan perfumery, commissioned independent American perfumer Dawn Spencer Hurwitz to create a limited edition fragrance, descriptive of her adopted home state of Colorado. Like John Muir's written musings on the Sierra Nevada, DSH Perfumes Colorado, evokes high altitude mountain air, this time the air of the Colorado Rockies, and the open spaces, sunshine and forests that Dawn loves so much.

Frosty Morning by Gail Gross ©

Dawn Spencer Hurwitz Of DSH Perfumes Colorado is the poetry of American geology captured in a bottle Opening with the cool, high altitude breath of the mountain air, Colorado lifts us beyond busy cities and snarled traffic, up and up past the tree line to the cool, sweet rarefied solitude of the summits.

Rocky Mountains in Winter", acrylic painting by Gail Gross ©

Bergamot, lemon essence and neroli reflect their sunlit scent profiles through the chill of glimmering, frosty air. The radiant aromas of immortelle suggest the icy sparkle of light powdered snow.

Dark Forest – photo by Gail Gross ©

From the top notes of the mountain, we make our way into the heart of a spruce and cedar forest. Penetrating terpenic scents of sap, lichen, evergreen needles and sawdust, soak into the resinous, balsamic, butterscotch warmth of ponderosa pine bark. Approaching the base, we rest briefly in deciduous forests and meadows of flowers, painted in shades of sandalwood, jasmine and moss. As the sun sets on our adventure in the mountains, Colorado draws to a close. We shake off the snow and happily dry down near a cozy fire of smoky cade, boozy oak and amber.

Rocky Mountains in Summer", acrylic painting by Gail Gross ©

Whenever I can't make a decision or life seems to be weighing me down, my instinct is to flee to the heights, to the big empty sky where the heavens meet the earth. I go for an answer, for resolution and peace. Returning through ancient forests to sea level I am renewed, full of new energy and resolve. With DSH Perfumes Colorado I find the same respite, peace and energy that await me on the slopes and in the forests of the uniquely wild mountains and the high open country of our American West.

Notes: Bergamot, lemon essence (distilled juice!), leafy green accord, Colorado blue spruce, Tunisian neroli, Egyptian jasmine absolute, immortelle absolute, oak co2, black spruce, Australian sandalwood, Texas cedar, Ponderosa pine bark, Ponderosa pine amber accord, pinemoss absolute, fir balsam, Tolu balsam, fossil amber and cade

Disclaimer: I would like to thank Dawn Spencer Hurwitz for my sample of DSH Perfumes Colorado. My opinions are my own.

The limited edition DSH Perfumes Colorado for AMERICAN PERFUMER® is available online at www.american-perfumer.com and at the American Perfumer Gallery in Louisville, Kentucky.

Gail Gross – Senior Editor

Thanks to the generosity of DSH Perfumes we have a 2 ml sample of DSH Perfumes Colorado for AMERICAN PERFUMER® for one reader in the U.S. To be eligible, please leave a comment explaining what appeals to you about DSH Perfumes Colorado based on Gail’s review. Draw closes 2/26/2019

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