American sage bush, flowering white thyme and prairie switchgrass from the wild west. Perfect for bank robberies on horseback.

Liner Notes

This is the fragrance we made our name with in 2008. A strange combination that used to be made with a homemade tincture of herbs, citrus peels and flowers. When I was learning how to make perfume, I experimented with many older methods. This helped me understand the aromatic relationships between the plants themselves. There is no better way to learn a skill than to just do it. That is the Cowboy Grass ethos. Although it is strange, it was an instant hit.

Cowboy Grass is a game of contrasts. The freshness of bergamot with the dustiness of thyme. The medicinal notes of clary sage and basil against the softness of rose Otto. And finally the dry peanut crackle of vetiver against the warm amber of benzoin.

Clary sage is the heart of Cowboy Grass. An herb once used for "eye cracks" or other ancient, terrible ailments. Clary sage is sharp, whitish-green, fresh and powerful. It can be pulled in many directions. In CBG, the green grassy notes in the top note of the fragrance are extended upwards, overlapping with the red woody freshness of rosewood and bergamot. The grassy effect is modified in the lower part, where there is a rich mapley accord of vetiver and amber. The vastness of the grassland is almost sacred to an American.

Cowboy Grass is dirty and leathery. Not the warm, aristocratic leather of the sofas in the drawing room, but rather the saddles, worn and tattered by years of use by horsemen crossing the West. There may even be a hint of the ashy, oily smell of an antique .45 Colt revolver strapped to the seat. That's perhaps what Mick smells like when he howls out the chorus of "Torn & Frayed" (part of the Stones' epic "Exile on Main Street" - a masterpiece of American musical language).

-DS

Side note. An Italian man influential in the beauty industry once told me that cowboy grass doesn't smell like cowboys.