Where it differs: A straighter pine-and-forest scent without the strawberry candy sweetness and vanilla leaf that soften Cape Heartache's smoky fir.
Smells like Imaginary Authors Cape Heartache.
One bottle the community rates close to Cape Heartache, with the one thing each does differently. green, woody, aromatic, unisex.
Notes of Cape Heartache
What Imaginary Authors publishes. Black means Lush Guardian of the Forest shares the note.
Top
- strawberry
- Douglas fir
Heart
- pine resin
- western hemlock
- vanilla leaf
Base
- old growth
- mountain fog
Notes of Guardian of the Forest
What Lush publishes. Black means Cape Heartache shares the note.
The house has not published a note list for this bottle; the accords above come from its own description.
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