House of Mammoth Review Contest
Perspectives: Experiences with House Of Mammoth perfumes
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1. Simon, Quebec on You & I (Will Die)
I put away the razor and the bottles and hurry to the bedroom to dress in thick clothes. You are already in the corridor, scarf wrapped around your neck, eyes carrying a quiet impatience. It’s the winter solstice and we’re going out to visit family.
At the end of the night, we climb into my sedan and pull away. Outside, the night is crystalline, the air sharpened by negative temperatures. Inside the car, something turquoise and weightless settles between us, a scent dissolving into light and dusk.
I glance in your direction. I’m stirred by memories of a life already lived. We saw my old uncle. I wish I could invite you in the memory of him and me as a child, trout fishing in the small streams behind his small sawmill. I’m also moved by images of a billion unlived lives, lost worlds, imagined worlds, all the could-have-been pasts and futures.
I wish we could see them all. I wish we had the time. But there is only this life. The thought of all the lives we can’t have is dizzying. You and I will die, having walked this one and only path.
I wouldn’t have it any other way.
2. tsrblke on Alive
I remember the first day I tried Alive. I was sitting at my desk, frustrated by paperwork I was tired of.
I put my hands to my face, and suddenly I smelled it, and I felt better.
Alive has since become almost an extension of my emotions. Sometimes it’s how I remind myself I’ll be alright after a hardship. Other times, it’s a celebration of life’s moments. The scent simply makes me feel better, or amplifies how good I already feel.
It reminds me, “I’m alive, and that’s a damned good start.”
3. JJ Colbourne on Snippid and Mull
Read the full article here: https://open.substack.com/pub/jjcolbourne/p/two-from-house-of-mammoth
re: Snippid
First whiff in and I am immediately captivated—sometimes a fragrance can transport you to two very different places at the same time. Snippid has me at once in the classiest and most charming barbershop I’ve ever entered but also has me walking through a botanic garden in early spring.
Snippid is absolutely brilliant.
re: Mull
I am first impressed at how the oenanthic (pertaining to wine, folks) effect is captured here. I am aware that it is not easy. This, with the orange and clove, immediately reminds me of a hot mug of Glühwein. There is this fruity ester tastiness that is going on, too, something that makes my mouth water.
A rich wet tobacco and a Malaysian oud that Mammoth informs was procured in Kuala Lumpur is what anchors our festive and warming glögg. It is seamless, with the complexity of these materials seeming to perpetuate the sensation of the libation well into the dry down.
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4. Christina Loff on Sonder and You & I (Will Die)
Re: You & I (Will Die)
The perfume plays with the ideas of dark and light and does a really beautiful job of balancing many different notes. I was so surprised by how this evolved on my skin. At first light and airy, then it makes its way into a damp earth smell but doesn’t stay there too long.
I can’t explain it, you just have to smell it.
re: Sonder
This scent is such a ray of light. It’s like sunshine in a bottle.
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5. Tracy Wan on Voices, Rumble, and You & I (Will Die)
Watch the video on her TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrTktySP/
re: Voices
The mango in this is too good to be true. It’s the mango of starburst and hi-chew and bubble tea. It’s fantastical, it’s delightful. I like it a lot. It wears sheer, almost aquatic, like it’s a drink more than a dessert. But you get all the facets, and you get the desserty essence of it, without it feeling heavy.
re: Rumble
This is the baritone scent. This is the kind of scent you'd want to hear "good girl" from.
It resists categorization. It’s not too boozy, it’s not too coffee like, it’s not too much of an amber. It’s just warm and dark and deep. I think if you’re looking for a winter scent, this might be a good place to start.
re: You & I (Will Die)
This one piqued my interest in the house. I love a good name, I love a good reminder of mortality as you guys know, and so I needed to smell this. This one is a dance between light and dark, between the sparkling and the decaying, between aldehydes and roots and patchouli and vetiver.
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6. Damiana Chiavolini on DinoS'mores, You & I (Will Die), and Voices
Read her article on House of Mammoth here: https://www.isniffbeforeisleep.com/house-of-mammoth-fragrances/
Re: DinoS’mores
A gourmet scent that feels realistic but not trivial.
Re: You & I (Will Die)
I perceive it as a textural fragrance that mimics thin layers of white veil fabric.
Re: Voices
It is a highly original gourmand that synthesizes sweet and savory facets...the sticky rice opening is pleasantly sapid and has a subtle tang.
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7. Thomas Wolfe on Sonder, Snippid, and You & I (Will Die)
re: Sonder (2025)
To my nose this is a real deep dive into opoponax. A airy green mid quietly speaks of spring. While the heavy cream sandalwood base shares a puffy floral top while a warm damp sheen informs the diffusive trail. The bottle is yellow. Which makes perfect sense. Honeysuckle on a warm spring afternoon. After giving the flowers a good watering.
re: Snippid
A camphorous techno punk clary sage/patchouli/ tobacco. Deliciously provocative in the chill of the season.
re: You & I (Will Die)
Well, as many know I do not spare the rod. This is an airy slightly sweet leather. Hints of saffron, patchouli, vetiver, and musk. I do not enjoy leather scents on the whole. However, I shall be buying a full bottle of this. The slight translucent airy leather is simply balanced to my nose perfectly.
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8. J Wearescentient on You & I (Will Die)
Read the full article here: https://cafleurebon.com/house-of-mammoth-you-i-will-die-benjamin-esposito-plus-fragile-humanity-giveaway/
You & I (Will Die) has a stunning spectral aura, shimmering in cold tones feeling ethereal as it moves into a sublime moment of peace with its presence haunting you as you slip back into the earth and the arms of another.
You & I (Will Die) is composed in a delicate way so imagine the rest of the perfumes tones as watercolours, it still has a substantial feel yet it’s more transparent layers weave over each other giving you this feel of half-forgotten memories of nature as life flashes before you in slow motion.
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9. Steven Gontarski on You & I (Will Die)
Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/JkRKYIhY6cU?si=CDmBvM6RoEBfL9iW
I discovered this scent initially when I was judging for the Art & Olfaction Awards... there was one scent that I kept going back to. I remember scoring this one scent very highly. It was very possibly number one in my ranking.
The name You & I (Will Die) is basically making reference to that idea that I was talking about before in that Keats poem, “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” that life is impermanent, and there's something beautiful about the fleeting quality of our existence
It’s a small brand so I hope more people discover them. They’re beautifully made fragrances.
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10. Good Sniffs Inc on Mull
Gonna be late to work because l've been huffing my wrists all morning. I knew I'd be into Mull as soon as @house.of.mammoth announced it, but holy cats, is it outstanding! Blooming spices and warmth.
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11. Kashina on Snippid and Sonder
re: Snippid
Leaf-strewn mushroomous cavern spiked with stalactites of firm cold cream.
re: Sonder
Big yellow ball of yarn pipecleaner chicks real chicks duckling fuzz œufs mimosa magnolia pistil in basket lemon curd meringue quenelle waddled up gramma-made crochet blanket chenille poufs babb's drawing of sun yolk run when the coddle is forked creamlette last minute of dessert I forgot to take a foto spoon run tracks through the custard summer's first suntan family trip to beach bonnetted babbs in buggies polaroid I was how many years old decades later I was how many years old.
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12. Cuir de rube on You & I (Will Die)
Read the full article on Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/cuirderube/p/you-and-i-will-die-and-so-will-everyone
[House of Mammoth] take the "men's grooming" sector into an honest and caring place in stark contrast to the majority of power, fight, militaristic, and man wipes misogyny-soaked copy and imagery that's currently out there.
I fee it nails the brief of light and darkness, moving from bright light (aldehydes and aquatic) to pitch black/brown (Spices), then finally to a dimly lit mossy cave (moss and resins). It strikes a balance between the conceptual and the wearable.
[House of Mammoth] helps to dispel the notion that American indie perfumery is inferior to classical French perfumery.
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13. Ken and Yosh on You & I (Will Die)
Watch the review here: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZThfNtbPB/
Yosh: It’s so good.
Ken: It starts out clean, and the dry down is a little more rich.
Yosh: I think that’s what’s so cool about it, is it has this decaying, almost like the whole life cycle of a human or a plant.
It’s got this skin element, but it definitely has this indolic, animalic vibe. But like, softly. It’s not sudden death. It's not a violent death.
Ken: It’s like a peaceful way to die.
Yosh: They have these like clear capsules in Switzerland... they just turn the air on and then you just fall asleep in the forest. This is what it smells like.
This would be potentially a funeral scent for me. This would be so nice because you want a bard to send you off. I want to be smelling this when I go.
Yosh: Such a beautiful creation. Delicate with gravitas.
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