Onthamara

อนธมาร

Prin 2022

In memory, you color the years; the fir is a dream from a fable, the images begin to blend, like glowing herbs sizzling in sharp light, as if you were brushing over nettles in the sky above the forest. Chimeras glide through damp leaves, their soft leather shines in the foggy haze from human dew pearls above and the dirt in their scruffy fur. You follow the familiar warm trails.
You gently float from the arms of cool spruces into the half-dark of dim amber lights on earthy warm bark floors and observe the black pine tar threads that smolder from the branches and gently singe the spicy mosses. Bright roots of wild grasses, the stinging hairs, ethereal herbs, fall like beams of light into your dream, into the image of a Dutch master, into the shadows of dark fir balsam, into the soft mulch of dusky brown, into the earthy shimmering labdanum in the eyes of the chimeras of a distant farm in summer beyond the forest.
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"Onthamara" represents an interesting development in Prin Lomros' fragrance worlds for me. Even the opening is unusually sharp, ethereal, and green, which is likely due in part to the bitter-aromatic artemisia, camphor, violet leaf, sharp cinnamon bark, and spicy celery. The impression of nettle with pepper soon expands with leathery-soft, animal-sweaty notes (deer musk, hyrax, beaver castoreum, cumin) and smoky aromas (Choya Ral, incense, pine tar). However, it remains a balanced blend of spicy-green, tarry-smoky, woody-earthy, and pleasantly animalic notes, as the cool black spruce needles, slightly rooty-smoky vetiver, and soft, barely soapy oak moss emerge on the green side, while spikenard, amyris, and oud appear on the warm-spicy-woody side, and especially fir balsam, amber, and labdanum on the dark-balsamic side.
Thus, a dark brown scent profile develops with increasingly dry-spicy animality, as one already knows from Lomros' earlier works like "Aran," "Varuek," "Nocturnal Poetry," or "Arsalan." The chimera of the old master paints itself vividly but distinctly to moderately before your inner eye.

(With thanks to Chizza)