Full Moon over the Desert Zara 2023

that smells like you.
If I were to describe you in a picture, a scene, because I have never smelled anything like this, I would describe you as a warm blanket.
The blanket that you take to the beach, where you have been since dawn. In the morning, the air is cool and mineral from the sand. By noon, it gets hot when the sun is almost directly overhead. You can smell sunscreen and a lightly sweet fruitiness in the air. But that’s still not you.
You are there when we stay at the same beach, in the same spot until evening, and gradually more friends join us. There are snacks, a picnic blanket, and a small campfire, as the air is cool again. It is dark now, and you can only see the sea as a roaring shadow, apart from the sound.
We go swimming again. We always do that. Because the water is now warmer than the air around us.
And when we come out, we wrap ourselves in the picnic blanket, sit in the sand, and gaze as if hypnotized into the small but warm beach fire before our eyes, enjoying the moment like a dessert. A friend pulls out his acoustic guitar and plays a song that we all know and sing along softly. It is these moments with friends that give us the richness we otherwise try to create with material things.

I find it hard to "break down" the scent; I don’t want to do that - for me, it is complex. It is warm and cool at the same time. It is fruity, leathery, and creamy all at once.
That’s why this scenario came to mind.
I can’t gauge what season I would wear it in, because it doesn’t exactly come off as very summery, but also not wintry.
Possibly an all-rounder for me, that always works and always smells special.
I would like to claim that I probably still know too little about what can be smelled in combination. But this has amazed me, and my first thought when spraying it was "wow, I’ve never smelled anything like this." A beautiful moment. Like when you gaze hypnotically into a campfire, wrapped in a blanket on the beach, when the sun has already set.

M.