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Himalaya Scriabin in the Himalayas 2015

8.8 / 10 4 Ratings

A limited perfume by Scriabin in the Himalayas for women and men, released in 2015. The scent is smoky-green. The longevity is above-average. The production was apparently discontinued.
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Main accords

Smoky

Green

Spicy

Woody

Fresh

Fragrance Notes

Amber

Frankincense

Musky notes

Nagarmotha

Oriental notes

Ozonic notes

Spikenard

Jasminum auriculatum Vanilla

Vanilla

Woody notes

Perfumer

Michel Roudnitska

Ratings

Scent

8.84 Ratings

Longevity

8.03 Ratings

Sillage

7.73 Ratings

Bottle

7.04 Ratings

Submitted by Michael, last update on 06/11/2022.

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200 pieces were made.

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3 in-depth fragrance descriptions

01/27/2018

10Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

Pigfarmer
11 Reviews

Pigfarmer

Helpful Review 2

utterly unique sense of space

roudnitska jr is clearlt talented but to conjure the sense of being at the higest altitudes while remaining grounded on the necessary vagaries of solid perfumery, well that's just goddam voodoo. i treasure my bottle and wear only when i'm clear for a reasoanble degree of solitude and introspection. fantastic work, and no need to ad to what my friend jtd can say much more ellekwentlee... :)

02/23/2016

jtd
484 Reviews

jtd

Very helpful Review 5

an event

Synesthesia has made a mark on perfumery thanks to artists like Dawn Spencer Hurwitz and Bruno Fazzolari. They experience scent as color. Their work in perfumery ranges from depiction of their experience (Chroma) to more abstract exploration. The audience can speculate as to what synesthesia ‘feels’ like, but the work doesn’t induce a synesthetic experience. The early 20th century Russian composer Alexander Scriabin apparently wanted the audience to experience the phenomenon more directly. Though it never came together during his lifetime, a days-long performance that incorporated music, dance, aroma and light took place at an elevation of 11,800 feet at the Thikse Buddhist Monastery in the Ladakh, India in June of 2015. “Mysterium” was a symbolist approach to the Vedic principle of divine energy animating and linking all aspects of being. The people present for the event were considered celebrants as much as audience members.

Michel Rounitska composed a number of scents that were integrated into the performance. He also composed Himalaya, a perfume tribute to the Mysterium project. The perfume conjures a cold, arid climate. The chilly, metallic olibanum is aerated with ozonic materials to create a sensation of cool winds. It has light, sweet vanillic tone that is balanced by a yogurty tartness. A floral quality floats in the air but never lands. It enhances the incense but stays in the background. An almost fruity aspect appears when the sweetness inherent in olibanum is brought out. Frankincense is the clear center of Himalaya. All other notes circle it and point to it but they never take center stage.

Scriabin’s piece has some of the early 20th century exoticism that flirts with fetishizing the foreign. I’m thankful that Roudnitska chose not to take an orientalist approach to the perfume. He chose a material that is appropriate to the setting (frankincense) and then used it to express an introspective, contemplative attitude.

Intermedia events might seem like a contemporary topic, but Scriabin beat us to the punch by about 100 years. Whether creating a performance that explicitly incorporates all the senses will lead to a synesthetic experience for the audience is an open question. Hallucinogens might help.

07/14/2021

9Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

Floyd
564 Reviews

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Floyd

Top Review 41

The Sky in the Himalayas

Here in the sky, the chlorophyll blue shadows shine the brightest, myriads of emerging ice crystals waft in clouds like incense from Tibetan temples, citrus mist hisses in fast motion over the peaks, driving pairs of small animals down the valley, there in the distance. At the ridge, Hemingway's Himalaya leaps headfirst, fresh soil falls from the roots of the nagarmotha, flowers bubble like riverbeds, so herbaceous and bitter, crusting into earth in wandering amber, down to the bottom of a mountain lake among carnations and woods in a water-reflecting swirling vortex with the plunging shadows of the bright sky.
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The Russian composer Alexander Scriabin planned a 7-day concert in 1915 in a specially constructed temple at the foot of the Himalayas, where music was to be combined with poetry, visual stimuli (such as a color organ), and scents to initiate the spiritual transformation of humanity to dissolve the world in divine bliss - a truly ambitious apocalypse. 100 years later, several musicians and monks adapted his plans in a monastery in Kashmir. Michel Roudnitska was entrusted with the creation of the fragrances: "I immediately accepted to compose an olfactory score of 6 fragrances and a special limited edition perfume for this exceptional event. It was an old dream to discover Ladakh, its mysterious old monasteries, highest passes of the world (5350 m and 6000 m) and gorgeous wild lakes in desert lands…"

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(Handing over the fragrance by Roudnitska to a monk)

"Himalaya" combines an ethereal bright, citrus-cool incense, underscored by slightly chlorinated-ozonic notes, with the earthy aromas of the nagarmotha roots and the herb-bitter notes of spikenard. Airy musk contributes slightly animalic notes, while the jasmine blossom connects rather coolly with the amber, the bright woods, and a hint of clove. Everything floats, as if Roudnitska had preserved the thin, misty air of the Himalayas to transport the wearer into this impressive landscape for over eight hours.

(With thanks to Bloodxclat)

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Chizza

4 years ago

7Scent

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Clouds of incense swirl in the forest and mingle with the animals of the woods. Earthy, contemplative, warm, with nagarmotha and spikenard clearly present.

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Bloodxclat

5 years ago

9Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

21

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Temple incense, airy, light, emerging from the cold stone, bitter herbs grow under the cedar-juniper-pepper bush. A dream.

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