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Finding an inner India
Through hoarfrost mist of cool crystals. Spicy sparks of cinnamon barks. They burn through yellowed memories of citrus grasses in photographs. Through skin of warm sandalwoods. The mulchy bast of resinous creams. Golden fibers in cambiums. The sapwood as soft as puppy balms. Silky shimmers of sweet jasmines. Henna bush prayer flags made of dried fruits. In honey colors. Macis, bitter caramel cloves. Are dream bubbles over fluffy soft tracks. Suede traces in soft clay liqueurs. Fine weaves of white glue blow on the wooden veins of Indian earths. Veils of delicate smoke inward leadin'. To Vrindavan.
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When you see Ray Cappo, singer of bands such as Shelter and Youth of Today, the flagship of the 1980s straight edge movement, on stage, you marvel at how someone can still be so full of energy after more than 40 years of hardcore. And you notice that spirituality is very important to him. So it's no surprise to learn that he asked NOAM to create a fragrance that contains sandalwood and Indian oud oils for meditation.
New Oceans And Meridians (N.O.A.M. Botanical Perfumes), the olfactory space-time travel agency from Switzerland, uses only high-quality natural raw materials for its complex compositions, maintains personal contact with small distilleries, traders, and manufacturers, and was therefore exactly the right choice for such a request. Long-standing connections to India for the multi-layered Mysore, an artisan distillation, Manipur oud, and five-year-aged henna attar from Kannauj, among other ingredients, were used for the composition.
The journey into an inner India begins with cool, green, camphor-like mist (vetiver, ginger, cardamom, bay leaf, lavender) and pungent spices (cinnamon, clove) on citrusy-woody Australian spicatum sandalwood, which soon gives way to the deep, creamy-soft, characterful aromas of Mysore sandalwood, whose multifaceted nature is brought out and emphasized by many of the other ingredients: There are silky jasmine blossoms, sweet champaka, lovely henna blossom, and spicy, caramel-like mace, in which the clove from the top note still echoes. As it develops, it becomes smoky, woody, and earthy (nagarmotha, Java vetiver, Manipur oud), with wisps of smoke drifting over clay-like earth, where delicate, glue-like strands of sandalwood resin also waft. In my opinion, Indian wood could hardly be better staged for a journey inward.
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When you see Ray Cappo, singer of bands such as Shelter and Youth of Today, the flagship of the 1980s straight edge movement, on stage, you marvel at how someone can still be so full of energy after more than 40 years of hardcore. And you notice that spirituality is very important to him. So it's no surprise to learn that he asked NOAM to create a fragrance that contains sandalwood and Indian oud oils for meditation.
New Oceans And Meridians (N.O.A.M. Botanical Perfumes), the olfactory space-time travel agency from Switzerland, uses only high-quality natural raw materials for its complex compositions, maintains personal contact with small distilleries, traders, and manufacturers, and was therefore exactly the right choice for such a request. Long-standing connections to India for the multi-layered Mysore, an artisan distillation, Manipur oud, and five-year-aged henna attar from Kannauj, among other ingredients, were used for the composition.
The journey into an inner India begins with cool, green, camphor-like mist (vetiver, ginger, cardamom, bay leaf, lavender) and pungent spices (cinnamon, clove) on citrusy-woody Australian spicatum sandalwood, which soon gives way to the deep, creamy-soft, characterful aromas of Mysore sandalwood, whose multifaceted nature is brought out and emphasized by many of the other ingredients: There are silky jasmine blossoms, sweet champaka, lovely henna blossom, and spicy, caramel-like mace, in which the clove from the top note still echoes. As it develops, it becomes smoky, woody, and earthy (nagarmotha, Java vetiver, Manipur oud), with wisps of smoke drifting over clay-like earth, where delicate, glue-like strands of sandalwood resin also waft. In my opinion, Indian wood could hardly be better staged for a journey inward.
1 Comment
ElAttarine 3 days ago
It is a shame that I missed this release... But reading your words is a pleasure, too. लोकः समस्ताः सुखिनो भवन्तु