Mississippi Medicine
Mississippi Medicine is a perfume study in dark woods, with an emphasis on cedar with smoky cade and birch tar. The fragrance is both unsettling and meditative, with a warm incense note that both softens and deepens the woodiness. From DS & Durga:
"Mississippi Medicine is based on what little is known about the rituals of a fast growing death cult that emerged in the southern part of the US in the 1200s. Called the South Eastern Ceremonial complex, it is more of a period within the Mississippian culture (the mound builders) when a specific system of religion quickly emerged. Other names for it were The Buzzard Cult and simply The Southern Death Cult. The cedar tree was sacred to them, representing an axis mundi (a gateway between the lower and upper worlds).
Mississippi Medicine is rich in cedar. Dry red Virginia cedar. Healthy doses of incense help marry the wood to the pine. Incense has been used in rituals since the dawn of time, which means we connect it to religious feeling in the depth of our bones.
The heart of MM is filled out with an accord of wild viola that could have grown by the mounds in Mississippi. Birch tar adds a primal smoke. It smells mysterious and ancient."
Perfumer
David Seth Moltz
Notes
red cedar, aldehydes, frankincense, cypress root, black pine, cascarilla bark, incense, Spanish cade, birch tar
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This one is fantastic. It’s an odd scent which at first smelled (to me at least) like the early bayou section of the Pirates of the Caribbean ride. Then you get more herbals—those shine through, with an almost menthol-like quality. I get the pine, frankincense, and some eucalyptus, balanced with wood and an earthy dirt scent. It’s a nice well rounded, earthy green.
If you’ve read the notes and are now looking at the reviews, then you already know what you’re in for. It’s grimy, dirty, and sharp. The dry down is much more soft and subtle, you’ll need to be a very particular person to rock this as a signature, I could see it layered with something softer/sweeter, overall not my style, but glad I got to take a dip in the Mississippi. Not as long lasting as you would expect considering how powerful the initial hit it.