Scent Stories Vol.1/Ch.09 - Dahab MiN New York 2014 Eau de Parfum

This fragrance is neither classic, nor mainstream, nor niche. It is something between a night scent, sea breeze, cypress grove, campfire, incense ritual, and deep forest, very distinctive and unique. Velvety darkness greets you right from the top notes, intensifying with wear; its colors play with dark blue, deep green, and dark brown. It feels as if you are diving into a kind of time tunnel or a cosmic object of unknown nature, leading through smoky mists, resin-soaked forest worlds, water realms, and ancient sacred buildings. And this always happens just before sunrise and just after sunset. And you never know at which end of the night you will emerge. It is never completely dark; there is a kind of twilight where on one side of the horizon the light still greets you, while on the other side lies the darkness.
Carried by a light melancholy that also allows for hope. That it will become day, that the fog will dissipate and the gloomy clouds will part to make way for a red sun (cinnamon, saffron) that bathes everything in a mysterious glow and shimmer. The sea is probably not far away, because alongside all the smoky and woody aromas, it somehow has a lightly salty scent. The spicy notes do not belong to the main part of the perfume; they bring small, corresponding splashes of "color" to the other end of the night, whatever that may be.