07/02/2025

ElAttarine
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Memory flashbacks on the beach
It's beautiful here on the beach. What are these people doing here? They are rubbing themselves with fragrant oils, the smell of coconut, sun cream and their salty skin mingling pleasantly in the mild breeze... I am so tired. I've been on the road for so long. I can finally rest here. When I close my eyes, I see shimmering green-orange tart mandarins flying towards me from outer space, somehow emerging from plastic astronaut helmets... In my dreams, I drift off to Central Asia and China, where the scent of fruity, leathery osmanthus blossoms mingles with the smoky aroma from large containers of gunpowder tea, drifting past me in shifting threads. I just want to rest, but with my eyes closed I can see fleshy, leathery smoked peaches flickering behind the people with the sunscreen, and the smell of smoke from the places burnt in the war hasn't gone either, it still hangs in my nose and my nerves. All the memories of the journeys I survived. Where am I here? Who am I? Hyperion? Marco Polo? Odysseus?
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I wouldn't have been particularly interested in some of the notes (coconut! tea, osmanthus) in this fragrance, but it's by Rubini and therefore worth testing, and now it just sneaks deep into my heart and my thoughts. The Rubini/Canali team manages to evoke the stereotype of the beach idyll (beach/ sun cream/ resting/ relaxing) just enough to make the image work, only to enrich it with subtle crossovers in the background.
The beautifully tart, fruity green-orange mandarins in the opening soon take on a slight plastic smell typical of the house, mandarins in a space suit, which for me makes them the link to space travel and Rubini's "Hyperion". And as the fragrance develops, there are several layers that overlap again and again: there is the layer that belongs to the beach fragrance cliché: sunscreen and coconut. This is definitely present, but is countered by the other aspects: firstly, fruity, leathery osmanthus, which (presumably together with the musk) gives the peach notes something particularly physical; then the smoky notes of green tea, for me clearly gunpowder - that's what it smells like when I open my gunpowder tin - but which, together with Champaka, remain light and sweet. With these aspects, the fragrance tells me about Marco Polo's travels in Asia and, via the smoky notes, also leads me to Odysseus, who is set ashore on the beach of Ithaca, deep asleep and exhausted, having carried his post-traumatic stress disorder from his war experiences with him on all his journeys. Idyllic yes, but with lots of flashbacks.
In this respect, the text on the homepage that the fragrance honors the harmony after weathering a storm or surviving a journey is also a little disingenuous, because in this harmony (or "idyll"), at least the remnants of Hyperion's space travel or Odysseus' sea voyages with smoking battlefields are still noticeably present.
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I wouldn't have been particularly interested in some of the notes (coconut! tea, osmanthus) in this fragrance, but it's by Rubini and therefore worth testing, and now it just sneaks deep into my heart and my thoughts. The Rubini/Canali team manages to evoke the stereotype of the beach idyll (beach/ sun cream/ resting/ relaxing) just enough to make the image work, only to enrich it with subtle crossovers in the background.
The beautifully tart, fruity green-orange mandarins in the opening soon take on a slight plastic smell typical of the house, mandarins in a space suit, which for me makes them the link to space travel and Rubini's "Hyperion". And as the fragrance develops, there are several layers that overlap again and again: there is the layer that belongs to the beach fragrance cliché: sunscreen and coconut. This is definitely present, but is countered by the other aspects: firstly, fruity, leathery osmanthus, which (presumably together with the musk) gives the peach notes something particularly physical; then the smoky notes of green tea, for me clearly gunpowder - that's what it smells like when I open my gunpowder tin - but which, together with Champaka, remain light and sweet. With these aspects, the fragrance tells me about Marco Polo's travels in Asia and, via the smoky notes, also leads me to Odysseus, who is set ashore on the beach of Ithaca, deep asleep and exhausted, having carried his post-traumatic stress disorder from his war experiences with him on all his journeys. Idyllic yes, but with lots of flashbacks.
In this respect, the text on the homepage that the fragrance honors the harmony after weathering a storm or surviving a journey is also a little disingenuous, because in this harmony (or "idyll"), at least the remnants of Hyperion's space travel or Odysseus' sea voyages with smoking battlefields are still noticeably present.
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