Top Notes 
Mandarin orange
Bergamot
Heart Notes 
Osmanthus
Peach
Champaca
Green tea
Base Notes 
Coconut
Musk
Vanilla
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Memory Flashbacks at the Beach
It's beautiful here at the beach. What are these people doing here? They are rubbing themselves with fragrant oils, the scent of coconut, sunscreen, and their salty skin blends pleasantly in the mild breeze… I am so tired. I have been on the road for so long. Here I can finally rest. When my eyes close, I see green-orange shimmering bitter tangerines flying towards me from space, somehow they spring from plastic astronaut helmets… In my dreams, I glide to Central Asia and China, where the fruity-leathery scent of osmanthus flowers mixes with the smoky aroma from large containers of gunpowder tea and flows past me in changing threads. I just want to rest, but with my eyes closed, I see how fleshy-leathery smoked peaches flicker behind the people with sunscreen, and the smell of smoke from the places burned in war is still present, lingering in my nose and my nerves. All the memories of the journeys I have survived. Where am I here? Who am I? Hyperion? Marco Polo? Odysseus?
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This fragrance wouldn't have particularly interested me based on some of the notes (coconut! tea, osmanthus), but it is from Rubini and therefore worth testing, and now it sneaks so easily deep into my heart and thoughts. The Rubini/Canali team manages to evoke the stereotype of beach idyll (beach/sunscreen/resting/relaxing) just enough for the image to work, while simultaneously enriching it with refined intersections.
Just like the beautifully bitter-fruity green-orange tangerines in the opening, after a short time, something of the characteristic light plastic scent clings to it, tangerines in a spacesuit, which makes it for me the connection to space travel and Rubini's "Hyperion." And in the further development of the fragrance, there are several layers that continuously overlap: There is the layer that belongs to the beach scent cliché: sunscreen and coconut. It is certainly present, but is countered by the other aspects: first the fruity-leathery osmanthus, which (probably together with the musk) gives the peach notes something particularly corporeal; then the smoky notes of green tea, which for me clearly smell like gunpowder - that's how it smells when I open my gunpowder tin - but remain bright and sweet together with champaca. With these aspects, the fragrance tells me about Marco Polo's travels in Asia and also leads to Odysseus, who is deeply asleep and exhausted, washed ashore on the beach of Ithaca after carrying his post-traumatic stress disorder from his war experiences through all his journeys. Idyllic yes, but with plenty of memory flashbacks.
In this respect, the text on the homepage, which states that the fragrance honors the harmony after surviving a storm or journey, is a bit sneaky, because in this harmony (or "idyll") at least the remnants of Hyperion's space travel or Odysseus' sea voyages with smoking battlefields are palpably present.
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This fragrance wouldn't have particularly interested me based on some of the notes (coconut! tea, osmanthus), but it is from Rubini and therefore worth testing, and now it sneaks so easily deep into my heart and thoughts. The Rubini/Canali team manages to evoke the stereotype of beach idyll (beach/sunscreen/resting/relaxing) just enough for the image to work, while simultaneously enriching it with refined intersections.
Just like the beautifully bitter-fruity green-orange tangerines in the opening, after a short time, something of the characteristic light plastic scent clings to it, tangerines in a spacesuit, which makes it for me the connection to space travel and Rubini's "Hyperion." And in the further development of the fragrance, there are several layers that continuously overlap: There is the layer that belongs to the beach scent cliché: sunscreen and coconut. It is certainly present, but is countered by the other aspects: first the fruity-leathery osmanthus, which (probably together with the musk) gives the peach notes something particularly corporeal; then the smoky notes of green tea, which for me clearly smell like gunpowder - that's how it smells when I open my gunpowder tin - but remain bright and sweet together with champaca. With these aspects, the fragrance tells me about Marco Polo's travels in Asia and also leads to Odysseus, who is deeply asleep and exhausted, washed ashore on the beach of Ithaca after carrying his post-traumatic stress disorder from his war experiences through all his journeys. Idyllic yes, but with plenty of memory flashbacks.
In this respect, the text on the homepage, which states that the fragrance honors the harmony after surviving a storm or journey, is a bit sneaky, because in this harmony (or "idyll") at least the remnants of Hyperion's space travel or Odysseus' sea voyages with smoking battlefields are palpably present.
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