Dark Matter Elixir Attar 2023

This room, where we lose ourselves, is carried by thoughts from dark matters. From blurred traces of black soap. Comets with incense stick tails. Wandering in spheres of dense resins. Stars of cinnamon and cloves burn out. A silver streak from Szechuan. The cool breath of the everlasting root. On warm worlds of pheromone furs. Heavy flakes of fleshy silks. They float from the chalices of champaca flowers. Dark spring falls on rough grounds of smoking barks and sandalwood sticks. Moss-brown earths. Rose shadows in mists. Tissue fibers of sleeping animals. Remaining under the skin.
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Elixir Attar from Los Angeles claims to be constantly searching for high-quality raw materials from the Asian region. Allegedly, they also utilize long-standing relationships in royal circles to obtain particularly rare materials. The small team relies on both traditional and modern knowledge in the creation of their fragrances.
"Dark Matter" initially seems as elusive as dark matter itself. Only gradually do the swirling spicy-hot (Szechuan pepper, cardamom, ginger, saffron), sour (blackcurrant), bright-resinous (Omani frankincense), and flowing dark (deer musk, labdanum, oakmoss) aromas organize themselves, associating at times with black soap (oakmoss, oud ash) and soon with sandalwood incense sticks (sandalwood, champaca). Soon, fleshy flowers (jasmine) seem more present, then again warm pheromones (deer musk) in a dark-resinous (labdanum, styrax, benzoin, opoponax, mastic) universe, which carries subtle vanilla-tobacco traces, but above all countless clove sparks like twinkling stars. Occasionally, delicate roses appear in a veil. Gradually, the resins dry into woody-smoky oud chips, into earthy mosses, until after many hours only animal-leathery tissue remnants remain. A small masterpiece, clearly to moderately projecting and filling the evening, in which there are always new facets to discover.

(With thanks to SirLancelot)