Reviews of Pear + Olive by Slumberhouse

Now, that is an interesting one! Right off the bat I got strong chamomile flower-ish punch, that hit my nostrils. After few mins, maybe 90 seconds it it joined with very sweet pear. The fragrance itself is kinda' oily indeed.
Another weirdo, but that one is so nice and cozy, that I imagine absolutely everyone liking it. I find it as definitely the most feminine leaning fragrance I've ever smelled from Slumberhouse.
Associations? Well, it's unique as hell, but I feel like Fjerne does resemble it somehow. Don't know how yet.
Spring and summer staple, maybe even the only Slumberhouse I'd dare to wear in a super hot and humid day.
I also detect some face and body cream/balsam accents/nuances here and there. Inexperienced noses might confuse this with some sort of products you're using when you got right out of the shower and you want to moisturize your body.

When it reaches its drydown interesting coconut has shown up. A bit like sun lotion mixed with coconut milk smell. Alluring and calming scent. Still the scent doesn’t loose its oiliness. Very interesting.

Longevity is up to 10 hours, sillage is medium.

Tropical and boozy. Taking in the sunshine and salty ocean air as the warm waves lap over your feet...

"The ocean between out toes
The sun in our lungs"
- Josh

Pear Schnapps. Warm, thick booze. Buttery. The chamomile is divine here. It turns almost savory, almost candy-like at the same time underneath. I'm having a hard time figuring out any other notes. I think I'm smelling a nutty, olive oil layer. There is a reminder of kumquat, of all things. Regardless of what notes are here, it settles into a boozy, buttery delight with a skosh of wood. Well made!

What a delightful and interesting creation! I bought a split with a little trepidation based on some reports that it's extremely sweet, smells like a cheap pear shampoo, etc.

Yes, the opening is quite sweet and it's fairly rich throughout, but I'm relieved to get quite a strong creamy/salty presence to offset it, and I don't find it cloying, though I'd hesitate to wear this in humid, hot weather. The savory aspect is most fascinating to me. The association for me is air-popped popcorn with a drizzle of olive oil and salt on it. So it's "buttery" but not in the nastily overbearing movie theater popcorn way. Textually (and yes, maybe this is the name guiding my nose), I can totally get on board with a reference to that plush, soft, velvet-buttery texture that you get with high end, mildly brined green olives, which are one of my favorite foods.

I'll note that I like P+O a LOT more when I get a waft of sillage, and that's when I get more of the savory/creamy/salty aspect. The sweetness really dominates when I sniff right off the wrist, so just be forewarned of that.

Really fun scent! Anyone who wants something creamy and/or savory and isn't opposed to a good helping of background sweetness should definitely check it out. It's a very "culinary" scent, and reminds me of the creativity on display when a talented chef inventively pairs ingredients to make an unexpectedly cohesive dish...takes guts and skill to pull that off.

My very least favorite from Slumberhouse. And that's saying something since I am not a fan of their thick, dense, heavy-footed, pedal to the metal house style. Here, however, it is the sweetness, rather than the density that does me in. I actually feel physically ill when smelling this combination of pear and fig(?) and coconut and cognac. It reminds me of a very cheap fruity shampoo I once bought by mistake. Where, oh, where is the olive?

Urrrrgh.

Wow...I finally tried Pear and Olive from Slumberhouse, and then find that it's been discontinued. I wouldn't care if I didn't LOVE IT!!!!! I want a bottle now and won't find one without being robbed in broad daylight. This is the buttery goodness I was looking for when I was sampling Mona di Orio's Vanille. While the MDO Vanille is nice, it has a sour sharpness during the wear that Pear and Olive doesn't have. This Slumberhouse fragrance is brilliant, and I wish I had gotten a bottle when I had the chance. Sadness...

Thumbs way, way up for Pear and Olive...

Floris van Dijck, Still life 1615-20

Slumberhouse Pear + Olive, now being discontinued, is probably the most unique of their current offerings, as the signature note pairing strikes me as downright odd. Its signature notes highlight the experience--sweetness from the pair, freshness and green aspects from the olive. I really get only a very simple experience out of this, and most of the notes I cannot detect. I'm just not sure the two main notes go together all that well.

Performance is decent but not especially strong for an extrait, certainly not comparable to Norne, Jeke, or Kiste, all of which are top performers.

Definitely an interesting try, but a bit too odd and not really one for me.

6 out of 10

Boozy sweet, at last a Slumberhouse that isn't screaming at me. I appreciate it but wouldn't say I like it. Nice dry-down.

Pear & Olive is my second fragrance from Slumberhouse and I must say it is quite unique. At first spray I get the pear with the olive. As it dries down, the pear kind of hides a bit and the olive comes out full blast. Along with sweet, woody and boozy. I get a whiff now and then and I love it. As with all parfum extraits, do not over spray. One to three should be enough.

This is definitely the scent of Slumberhouse less evocative!
This perfume is more elegant when worn by a man rather than a woman! A little '"nerd" perhaps by choice, would be the ideal scent for Clark Kent!

A fine example of modern perfumery which however leaves the more esoteric and mystical concept of the brand! Even the name differentiates it from the others, talking about two ingredients or better two effects!

It would appear that Josh was trying a new way, exploring the market and its potential.
The synthetic ingredients predominate, with a slight natural floral arrangement (chamomile?) that governs the flow of perfume while maintaining its sleek.

Good job, thought maybe for a very young target or for those looking for youth being close to andropause!

A rare bird is always rewarded, even though I would expect other whitefly as this one to understand better this new concept!

One day I will ask Josh about the idea of this fragrance!


by your amazing "interesting man in conflict"

Pear + Olive is perhaps the fragrance I struggled the most to appreciate in the Slumberhouse's range but, eventually, it clicked. I've always found it a bit too sweet to my tastes and, admittedly, I'm not the biggest fan of fruity notes in perfumery unless they're rendered in their green / unripe aspect as opposed to the edible and sweet counterpart. As a matter of fact though, after a visit of a friend who was wearing a massive amount of Pear + Olive, I got to appreciate its uniqueness and evocative power.

Yes, the opening is still a sweet and green combo of fruity stuff (pears in this case), a sparkling element probably related to some kind of aldehydes and something greasy / oily. The massoia (a woody-coconut kind of smell) breaks in pretty fast giving birth to an endless and pretty much addictive woody-vanillic dry down.

It sounds like a whatever juvenile *yummy-yummy* sweet fruity bomb but Josh Lobb's very peculiar quote turned this composition into something that goes beyond genres. There's a sense of restraint to Pear + Olive that while it's not very typical of the house, it definitely plays in the fragrance's favor which feels robust and dense while showing a kind of watercolor facet and some transparency. It's a nice play between opaque hues and transparent ones, between sweet and sour facets, between the angular and the rounded.

Delightful.

As a further note, I'd like to express again my full support and appreciation for Slumberhouse which is responsible for one of the most innovative range of fragrances in quite some time. Now, while the house delivered some fragrances I love, others I like only on a theoretical basis, and a couple I still can't warm up to, I strongly believe Josh Lobb is one of the best things happened to perfumery in quite some years and he's the living proof you don't necessarily need shallow marketing strategies and attention-whoring behaviors to break into the market. Finally someone who let his perfumes talk.

A surprise hit for me! But then again, I'm not sure why I am so surprised - after all, I love the juxtaposition of salt and sweet in foods (strong cheddar and apples, salted peanuts and chocolate, fresh white cow's cheese and honey...), and Pear & Olive is an almost classic balancing act between savory and sweet elements. Primarily, this is the play of sweet pear against a grassy olive oil, but there are also pleasing contrasts between the sweet hay-like smell of chamomile and the bright green calamus.

For me, though, the defining note of Pear & Olive is that of the Massoia bark. It lends a creamy coconut milk feel to the base, and a dry, nutty woodiness too. The slippery olive oil note, though, ensures that this is a savory type of creaminess. The texture of the scent reminds me of my favorite cleansing oil by Clarins which starts off on my skin as a thin oil and then, when drops of water are added, turns into an unctuous, opaque cream. Pear & Olive feels a bit like this to me - oily, fruity, and green-grassy at the start and turning slowly into a salty, thick cream towards the end. Either way, fans of thick, creamy scents should run to try this. I find it so pleasurable to wear.

Build it & they will come.
Blend it & they will spray (anything).

Ugh.


Ugh.

A delightful pear opening with a mildly boozy touch makes a fine start. Later, in the drydown, a delightfully gentle chamomile develops with hints of olive - the latter being an ephemeral background note on my skin in spite of its prominent position in the name. Floral elements, especially geranium, are another feature at this stage. He base sees the arrival of creamy woodsy impression, with hints of sandal. In spite its creaminess is is quite restrained. Adequate sillage, decent projection and very good longevity of seven hours - for warm spring days.

For the first hour, l get green, oily pear, quite fresh in a shampoo-like way, but also oddly sickly. At this stage it turns my stomach slightly, until the note of massoia bark begins to emerge, & it all becomes more bearable. The massoia lends a pleasant woodiness to the heart, with its suggestion of coconut shell, not flesh, & its touch of milky fig. Some time later there's a little ambery sweetness, & twelve hours in, the base of crisp, dry woods is still going.
l have to admit that l really don't like pear, the fruit or the scent, but l was hoping that the rumoured coconut note & the promised olive note would combine to make this one worth a try. Sadly, there was no trace of the juicy, salty olives l longed for, & not enough coconut to offset that nauseating opening.

I think I object to the "olive" note in here. It's oily. I like the pear note, even though I'm not a fan of fruity fragrances. It's realistic, sweet, and candy-like. It's the olive that's bothering me. It's oily-rancid. It smells like a dishrag that has soured. It causes my stomach to roil. Okay, it's not overwhelming. I can handle it. There's so much of the pretty pear in here that I can block out the greasy odor. Surprisingly, I love olives and olive oil. I eat olive oil practically every day. I buy the best I can afford. That is why I can't call this an "olive" aroma. It's more like a fungus of some kind, sort of warm and dirty and growing. It's like when your clothes don't dry completely, but you have to wear them again. My apologies to those of you who find this delectable. Theoff-note spoiled note spoils it for me.

This opens with a Sweet syrupy pear accord with a underlying savory note. It's fresh and very realistic like you have just opened a tin of fruit.

This scent reminds me too much of shampoo and shower gels, I'm not liking this at all.

The opening is fairly overwhelming and cloying, all I get is a metallic, violent slap of aldehydes with a linear, metallic, frosty pear note. Pretty much it, eventually some vanilla emerges better, but overall, to my nose it's just a really unbearable aldehydated accord, pungent and vibrant – not in a good way. I don't get most of the notes which are supposed to be here. The concept is interesting (a metallic, linear, "destructured" fruity scent), but the result of this formulation goes just "too far" for me. I simply can't smell it without feeling dizzy. I won't say a "no", just a "question mark".

?/10

Pear & olive does the same exact thing that Norne does to me: It connects me to a familiar place in real life.

While Norne reminds me of a mid-forest river where i used to swim in my teenage years, Pear & olive takes me to the family gatherings in the garden outside on a beautiful late spring afternoon.

Everyone finished lunch and now it's time for desserts, maybe some cognac, some fruits. Maybe some white grapes? "How about pears everyone?" Yes please, i'll take one ! Dad and uncles are playing cards next to us, cousin got a new story to tell, sister is yapping on how the weather is finally warm to hit the beach, while the smell of mediterranean olive oil is still lingering around from the Labneh(Yogurt)appetizers that were on the table during lunch.

This scent is home to me. It's familiar, it's soothing yet so beautifully unique and engaging.

Smells like a high quality Poire Williams liquer, but softer and creamier, and without the abrasiveness that the drinks high alcohol content provides. Delightful. For me it seems most at home on a spring day after a rain, but I like breaking it out year round to be honest.

Okay, I give up. Fa-bu-LOUS! If I didn't know from the name that it contains pear and olive, I never would have guessed on first sniff. Slumberhouse wants us to think "the ocean between our toes, the sun in our lungs" and that's exactly what I do from the unlikely combination of: zdravets (geranium from Bulgaria and Cyuprus), aglaia (tree in the mahogany family), massoia bark (an Indonesian tree), olive, cognac and pear. Bravo!

Creamy fruit Pear and Olive is much like its name. Firstly, a sweet pear and then oily olive notes which together makes a creamy skin smell - it's quite lovely . Pros: Long lastingCons: Not to everyone's taste"

Compared to the rest of the line...this one is tame. Pear, some cognac, slight orange. I don't get much olive. All Slumberhouse juice is MONSTER projection. I almost get coconut on dry-down, though none is listed... kind of like Creed Windsor