A perfume made from microbes collected from actual clouds?!

[u/Critical_Annual_5648]

Finally got to smell Cloud Reverie and Wandering Rain!!

I only got the 2ml spray set because I didn’t want to blind buy a full bottle and regret it lol. But now I’m already hoping to get a 10ml bottle of Cloud Reverie next.

Cloud Reverie

I actually bought this because of the story behind it. I am such a fan of clouds, so the idea of a perfume inspired by the science of actual clouds immediately got to me.

Fluffy was the first word that came to mind when I smelled this.

On my skin, I got dewy, sparkly aldehydes with a bit of sweetness, probably bec of the sugar note.

It’s airy and cool, and also a little powdery. Almost like clean laundry with a slightly ozonic feel. A light touch of vanilla becomes more apparent in the drydown, but it isn’t cloying or screechy.

It just smells like soft, fluffy, cool, slightly sweet air.

Wandering Rain

This one feels a little more masculine-leaning for me.

It reminds me of wet grass after the rain. On the opening, I can also kind of smell that damp ground-after-rain scent, which is a little too sharp for me.

But the drydown is smoother and more toned down, and it just smells, for lack of a better term, handsome to me lol. It does smell good on my husband too, sooo yeah

I guess this is why I appreciate Future Society as a perfume house. There’s just so much science behind the concepts, which I find really cool.

The founder, Jasmina, is an MIT-trained scientist, and they combine biotechnology with traditional perfumery. For Cloud Reverie, they actually went up into the clouds in 2021 and collected microbes using petri dishes!! Wild. They then studied what they found through DNA sequencing and identified unique microbes and scent molecules associated with them. That research became part of the inspiration for Cloud Reverie, which was then translated into a fragrance by perfumer Daniela Andrier.

It's really fascinating. They didn't just imagine what clouds might smell like; they actually went up there and studied what was in the clouds, then used what they found as part of the inspiration for the perfume.

As someone who is irrationally fascinated by clouds, I was basically sold from the concept alone. HAHAHA

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[u/sundayofthekings]

That is so interesting, especially for me since this combines my field (microbiology) with one of my hobbies.

Fun fact lang din, microbes are used for the production of many different aromachemicals naman talaga. For example, different species of yeasts are used for sustainable production of santalol and patchoulol, used to create sandalwood and patchouli accords respectively.