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brutalist wilderness
Aesop is consistently supreme when it comes to aromatics and “stony” earthy/mineral accords. And you get both at their best in Erémia. This is a verdant urban petrichor scent. It’s a fairly close match to Aesop’s Olous room spray, only minus the cedar. (Hot take: you can wear room spray as a perfume). On the Le Labo scale it’s drizzlier than The Matcha 26 but not as soggy as Baie 19. Unfortunately, longevity is fleeting. And so I continue to blast myself with room spray…
Mental Snapshot: The saleswoman who first introduced me to this scent knocked it out of the park. “Imagine an abandoned city being consumed by nature.” I can’t imagine anything else after she described it. The city I get in Erémia is a stark concrete one – a brutalist industrial park that was never actually inhabited – as there’s no rust or grime to it. Instead, the forest takes residence, wild vegetal and stoic mineral melding in perfect harmony.
tl;dr: The Last of Us (happy nature scenes only)
Mental Snapshot: The saleswoman who first introduced me to this scent knocked it out of the park. “Imagine an abandoned city being consumed by nature.” I can’t imagine anything else after she described it. The city I get in Erémia is a stark concrete one – a brutalist industrial park that was never actually inhabited – as there’s no rust or grime to it. Instead, the forest takes residence, wild vegetal and stoic mineral melding in perfect harmony.
tl;dr: The Last of Us (happy nature scenes only)