Los Vientos de Santa Ana Anka Kuş Parfüm 2019

Come, let us listen to the words of the warm wind. On the slopes of the Sierra, it falls with the frost, rippling the cold mirror of the water, the image of the mountains in Big Bear Lakes, the wooden cabin at the end of the dock, the spicy cypress trees of Green Valleys in the San Bernardino National Forest, the needles like glowing limes, tar dripping like dew from the bright birches, like ethereal embers ignited by its breath in the salty sunlight over the bay.
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Al Manlé's Melbourne label Anka Kuş Parfüm aims to create time capsules of places and memories. "Los Vientos de Santa Ana" transports us to the scent of the winds that arise in the basin between the Rocky Mountains and the southern Sierra Nevada, still cold as they fall over the mountain ranges, warming increasingly as they descend over the coniferous forests, before meeting the Pacific over Los Angeles.
The fragrance is characterized by fresh, cool, hesperidic notes, spicy-lemony cypress, bright woody notes, smoky-resinous, slightly sharp birch tar, as well as salty amber, and becomes a bit warmer and more balsamic over time with guaiac and amber. It always feels natural and balanced, and it also reminds me, in its moderate longevity and projection, of the natural scents from Barnaby Black, particularly Mescalito with its cool, dark freshness, the balance of hesperidic conifer resins, salt, and birch tar.

(With thanks to Gandix)