Clue Morel Map EdP

Morel Map by Clue Perfumery is a unisex Floral fragrance launched in 2022. The nose behind this fragrance is Laura Oberwetter. 

Notes: Birch Leaf, Balsam Fir Needle, Red Currant, Wisconsin Wood Violet, Violet Leaf, Galbanum, Morel Mushrooms, Oakmoss, Dead Elm Tree, Forest Floor.

In the Wisconsin springtime, as the days start to grow longer and the last of the snow has melted into the soil, leaving the ground warm and damp, the hunt begins for the elusive morel mushroom. Morel Map is the scent of the hunt, as intrepid funghi foragers make their way through the forests and orchards and along the streams and rivers- the loamy nuttiness of the morel mushroom note blending with aromatic woods, green moss, and damp soil to evoke the lush beauty of woodland flora springing back to life after the long midwestern winter. It's all delivered with the whimsically conceived, yet richly captured olfactive verisimilitude that sets Clue Perfumery apart- a magical journey to the heart of the forest that you can experience anywhere, anytime.

REVIEWS

Fragrantica - One of the most gorgeous close to the skin forest floor fragrances out there. This genre of fragrance is my number one, anything that captures this well is usually am immediate love for me, and what Clue Perfumery has managed to do with Morel Map is 10/10. This is so beautifully done and I want to smell like this all of the time. The mushroom note is so well done and blends perfectly with all of the other green notes and it's just perfect, I don't know what else to say. I feel like I'm on a dream like hike through a forest among the lushest nature. Clue Perfumery is one of the most exciting new lines emerging on the scene, and I can't wait to see what they do next. 

Fragrantica - My favorite green scent, nothing else comes close imo. Photorealistic while still being incredibly wearable and alluring. Being from Wisconsin this really hits home. True magic happening here

Fragrantica - Earthy, loamy perfection. The best soil note I've experienced, slightly edging out the limited production Nez Folia.

Fragrantica - This is my absolute favorite of the bunch. The opening, like Clue's offerings in general, are art. I feel like I'm taken on a journey every time. There's a story briefly told by these perfumes then they morph into a less stylized and more wearable scent. This one turns into a sexy, almost musky masculine scent. I'm obsessed. It's woody, comforting, a little dirty, masculine, and still a little green in the dry down, but to me mostly this comforting musky woodiness.

Fragrantica - At first spritz it's this heavy earthen tincture, a lot of the balsam green is here and a trail of dampened soil. It's beautiful but wow the show really is only getting started. The dry down is absolutely stunning. It becomes this luminous comfort like the feeling of being encapsulated in a moment in nature. There's a layer of elusiveness that's hard to capture here I get a slight smokiness like a campfire pit that's been snuffed by a sudden rainfall. The smell of old fallen logs and fire wood with this almost cashmere like quality swirled in. It's beautiful, it's poetic. It really transports me to this memory of being high in the woods with friends and exploring the unknown. The smells enveloping your mind. I think I may have found another favorite.

Fragrantica - When first sprayed, I'm met with green that is so enveloping I feel as if vines are growing along my limbs. Just like after a rain though, as it dries the sweetness emerges. The lasting scent makes me think of the warm sun on my face as I stretch out on a blanket of violets and petrichor that's encircled with lions mane, morel, reishi, and chanterelle. A fairy hides close by observing and collecting raindrops to quench their thirst.

Fragrantica - Such a comforting scent.  When I smell this, I'm transported to my friend's cabin in Washington. I'm reminded of the smell of damp soil, moss, and lots of lush green vegetation.  I think this is perfect for a cool, rainy night.

Fragrantica - Smells like the memory of hiking in the PNW, wearing my dad's wool coat that always held the spicy notes of his cologne on the collar, and wet moss and dirt bursting underneath my leather boots. The woodiness is more pine needle than pine wood to me. All of it smells like it's soaking wet; the wood, the dirt, the flowers and mushrooms. I'm amazed how this perfume captures the experience of foraging after a bought of rain in springtime, how the air clears and the water brings out the smell of the forest with more potency, especially the brightness of cut stems and and the earthiness of uprooted fungi.

Fragrantica - Morel Map opens up with a nearly photorealistic forest scent - green, so green! and almost vegetal in its conjuring of chlorophyll laden leafy flesh and damp petrichor earth. This works on more than just a note level - the texture of the fragrance directly out of the bottle pricks the inside of your nose like balsam fir needles falling from treetops. As foldyrhands describes, this scent soon transforms into a much softer depiction of this same forest floor - simultaneously savory in its mushroom earthiness and sweet due to the delicate addition of violet. The wet, shimmering scent of breath turned to condensation in heavy dawn fog paired with the satisfying feeling of dirt underneath your fingernails: proof that you really dug your hands in.