Mona Universal Flowering 2023

A husky, peppery amber. Burnt sugar, wiry vetiver, desert air. And then woodsmoke, leather, myrrh. I get the “warm stone” texture. It’s a very fresh-outta-the-kiln kind of scent. Like basking upon sunbaked adobe or terracotta tiles. Feels related to Rhapsody in Mauve; Mauve being the Upper East Side fortune-teller (glamorous, mystical) and Mona being the Santa Fe pottery instructor (arid, earth goddess). It’s more mineral than Stora Skuggan’s Azalai and lighter than DvN’s Rock the Myrrh, but they’re all scent siblings. I wore this to a Clairo concert and two separate strangers told me I smelled “really, really good.”

Mental Snapshot: An Arch Digest home tour. Your home tour. A Midcentury beauty: redwood rafters, sandstone hearth, cactus garden. Can’t forget the conversation pit (olive velvet). Your library and vinyl collection are genuine, as is your love of limes. (Favourite drink: spicy paloma).

tl;dr: desert retreat treat