Bowmakers

Immediately it smells like varnish and woods, like you sprayed something you shouldn’t spray on your skin that is corrosive, but assuredly it’s not. Nostalgic memories of arts, crafts, oil painting, and cut wood impacts you. The scent is abrasive, but softened somehow. It mellows into a log cabin, wood shipyard. The wood is earthy with a slight dirt smell to it, which may be the moss and resin. I don’t know where the “outdoors accord” enters in, but it may be that you are painting a wood ship outside? I feel like I’m addictively sniffing paint, but it’s not stigmatizing because the chemical smell breaks down into mossy-blackdirt-wood. It would be great to smell like this as an architect, painter, craftsman, artisan or gardener. At times it could be like paint, wood, or clay. The drydown is just the spiced resin and the overall scent vanishes in 3 to 4 hours.

Bowmakers does smell like varnish upon initial application, which I find interesting and surprisingly pleasant. It fades into something nice and woody, but the varnish note sticks around just enough to keep it interesting.

Smells more like patchouli than the wood notes to me.

The scent of a male that’s been working at ren fest for weeks, who also attends anime conventions. Notes of unwashed cargo shorts, fedora and leather jacket. You can almost hear the whispers of m’lady over the finest Mountain Dew.

Such a great smell. Like youve walked into a violin shop. Recommend for anyone into woody scents. Lasts a long time and only needs one spray!

need the lotion

This is a hyper-realstic wood/resin/varnish scent that is quite interesting. It smells like you're in your woodshop staining and varnishing a new piece of furniture. As fascinating as that is, I don't want to smell like chemicals in public.

Amazing woody aromas with a tinge of sweetness mixed in with some varnish… addictive. Works well even on a hot (dry) day.

One of my favorite. Lover the cedar,smokey wood sent.

I bought a full bottle of this. It is unlike anything else I own. Resin and varnish are definitely present, but they are not cloying. This is unisex and leans masculine.