Stereoplasm - Snow On Stone

christmas may have come and gone with its accompanying real life priorities and commitments over social media, but i'm pretty determined to see my advent scent-lendar through regardless.

for christmas eve, my gift to myself was Snow On Stone by Stereoplasm, a black friday 2019 exclusive which made a brief reappearance for the same event this year as one of their gifts with purchase. i had put this one aside for being barely detectable on application (as my skin is cursed to experience with the previous lower-concentration versions) so after having allowed this one to age for a year, i was excited to see how its longevity and throw would improve with time.

Snow On Stone has really unique notes unlike any other i've seen before: frozen december soil, valerian root, black cohosh, crushed pearl, lake ice and ambergris. and it's not just the notes - this one is pretty interesting, a blend quite unlike what one would expect from a "perfume".

the first sniffs from the bottle reveal a combination that lives up to its name - this smells like cold stone with a fresh crispness of new snow over it. i had previously never actually paid much attention to the smooth and distant coldness that hewn stone (or marble) can have, but now that i smell it here, it's something that i don't think i will forget.

on my skin, the perfume develops and opens up quite a bit. a new earthiness (presumably from the soil and valerian) emerges as a more gritty contrast to the smooth stone, while at the same time the stone itself gains an almost ethereal pearlescent quality, like that of a mythic treasure guarded by mermen of the deep. i like how the ambergris is interwoven with all these different smells, evoking the undiscovered mysteries beneath the waves of a frozen ocean.

ageing has improved Snow On Stone from when i last tried it six months ago; it now has a decent throw of about a foot and lasted about three and a half hours of wear. this is an exceptional atmospheric that perfectly combines a realistic snowswept stone with mysterious oceanic fantasy, a great perfume that is firmly one of my go-tos for those days when i want to feel less approachable and a bit more like a distant ice queen. 8/10.

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this review is of a promotional freebie-with-purchase that i had received for making a purchase with my own money. i wasn’t asked to review this scent as a condition of receipt and didn’t receive any incentives for writing this. i’m not affiliated with Stereoplasm and as always, all opinions remain my own.

Stereoplasm's website can be found here.

all information correct at time of publishing.