The Jersey Devil
Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab

“The scent of the wild, hauntingly beautiful Pine Barrens of New Jersey! Pitch pine with blackberry leaf, cranberry, cedar wood and tomato leaf.”I'm not an East Coast kind of guy so I don't know much about the Pine Barrens, although I have been to pine barrens in other states. The Jersey Devil is essentially a cranberry fragrance. The cranberry stays, in mutating form, through the whole, long run of the fragrance. The opening is cranberry and tomato leaf with the pine in the background. The cranberry note is sweet and wet – quite berryish. The tomato leaf is that sharp, almost bitter green that is typical of, well… tomato leaf. The effect is herbal berries. The pine rather stays in the background while the tomato leaf gradually dwindles and the cranberry loses a bit of the wet feel as well as some of the sweetness. By the middle accord the berry is dry, the tomato leaf is present but recessive, the pine is almost gone and a cedar note is strongly rising to prominence. The cedar becomes very strong on my skin and holds through the long drydown, while the berry note fades away.I like this fragrance – it tells a real story and a story always provides more meaning… I don't think I'd wear it much, although I do like the berry and the cedar drydown. I could have done without the tomato leaf. Tomato leaf works for me but only as a background note: If it is too dominant, too long as in The Jersey devil, the experience is lessened.