Aer Angela Ciampagna 2015

Dear, highly esteemed commentators! Are you all really writing about the same fragrance? Lemon or celery?? Let me say a word for my apparently so controversial summer favorite!

“Fruit salad” - my first impression right after spraying. Delightfully natural, fruity-sour lemon, accompanied by juicy grapefruit, and perhaps a subtle hint of banana. Garnished with plenty of green, spicy and slightly minty, not sharp, not piercing, a gentle freshness.

Cut / Another aromatic image: My great-aunt used to marinate lettuce not with vinegar, but with freshly squeezed lemon juice and a bit of sugar. It was new and unusual to me as a kid, but I found it wonderful. A bit similar, gently spicy, chlorophyll-rich green and fresh yellow, is Aer. /

(I would have never thought of celery, but after reading the previous comments: Yes, with a bit of imagination and goodwill, I can smell that! It must be the yellow-green combination that can be perceived that way.)

Important is the juniper berry, which gives fruit salad and herbs a subtly bitter-gin-like refinement, making Air interesting and never boring.

All of this rests on a restrained, textured, earthy base, where I think I recognize my dear vetiver. With that, I have gathered the colors of the fragrance together: warm lemon yellow, juicy herb green, and textured-earthy ochre.

It stays quite close to the skin, but lasts for many hours, even on a warm summer day. The aromas are well connected and intertwined, so the character of the fragrance changes little over time. Together, this creates a scent that is pleasantly and long-lastingly perceptible close to the skin, very natural, uplifting, citrusy feel-good fragrance, gently fresh for sunny and hot days and smilingly warming for cool cloudy days.

The textured complexity of the fragrance seems to strike quite different chords in our individual memory orchestras - which explains the controversial impressions of the previous comments well.
The scents are said to originate from the Italian rural village idyll of Angela Ciampagna, with the bottle adorned with the replicated window rose of the Gothic village church. Except for Ducalis, which has some synthetic, unpleasant “sting” for me, I find all of them beautiful and unique. What they all have in common is that they feel full and textured, a bit earthy, salty, a bit archaic, barrel-fermented.... Individual fragrance molecules were not artfully combined with a pipette, but natural raw materials were mixed and fermented as a whole (what Leimbacher describes as “Spark of Animality,” I would explain this way). No fruit-flavored water, no clear fruit juice, but a naturally cloudy, full-bodied smoothie (almost) without artificial flavoring agents. And that’s how Aer also comes across: Not created in a stylish-sterile fragrance chemistry lab, but as a lemony aerosol rising from Miraculix’s magic potion cauldron. I like it!

P.S. 1: unisex
P.S. 2: beautiful angular-antiquing bottle with a patinated metal cap (and Gothic rosette on the 100 ml bottle) - fits nicely with the fragrance concept!