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Lemon-Juniper-Herb Smoothie!
Dear, highly esteemed commentators! Are you all really writing about the same fragrance? Lemon or celery?? Let me say a word for my apparently so controversial summer favorite!
“Fruit salad” - my first impression right after spraying. Delightfully natural, fruity-sour lemon, accompanied by juicy grapefruit, and perhaps a subtle hint of banana. Garnished with plenty of green, spicy and slightly minty, not sharp, not piercing, a gentle freshness.
Cut / Another aromatic image: My great-aunt used to marinate lettuce not with vinegar, but with freshly squeezed lemon juice and a bit of sugar. It was new and unusual to me as a kid, but I found it wonderful. A bit similar, gently spicy, chlorophyll-rich green and fresh yellow, is Aer. /
(I would have never thought of celery, but after reading the previous comments: Yes, with a bit of imagination and goodwill, I can smell that! It must be the yellow-green combination that can be perceived that way.)
Important is the juniper berry, which gives fruit salad and herbs a subtly bitter-gin-like refinement, making Air interesting and never boring.
All of this rests on a restrained, textured, earthy base, where I think I recognize my dear vetiver. With that, I have gathered the colors of the fragrance together: warm lemon yellow, juicy herb green, and textured-earthy ochre.
It stays quite close to the skin, but lasts for many hours, even on a warm summer day. The aromas are well connected and intertwined, so the character of the fragrance changes little over time. Together, this creates a scent that is pleasantly and long-lastingly perceptible close to the skin, very natural, uplifting, citrusy feel-good fragrance, gently fresh for sunny and hot days and smilingly warming for cool cloudy days.
The textured complexity of the fragrance seems to strike quite different chords in our individual memory orchestras - which explains the controversial impressions of the previous comments well.
The scents are said to originate from the Italian rural village idyll of Angela Ciampagna, with the bottle adorned with the replicated window rose of the Gothic village church. Except for Ducalis, which has some synthetic, unpleasant “sting” for me, I find all of them beautiful and unique. What they all have in common is that they feel full and textured, a bit earthy, salty, a bit archaic, barrel-fermented.... Individual fragrance molecules were not artfully combined with a pipette, but natural raw materials were mixed and fermented as a whole (what Leimbacher describes as “Spark of Animality,” I would explain this way). No fruit-flavored water, no clear fruit juice, but a naturally cloudy, full-bodied smoothie (almost) without artificial flavoring agents. And that’s how Aer also comes across: Not created in a stylish-sterile fragrance chemistry lab, but as a lemony aerosol rising from Miraculix’s magic potion cauldron. I like it!
P.S. 1: unisex
P.S. 2: beautiful angular-antiquing bottle with a patinated metal cap (and Gothic rosette on the 100 ml bottle) - fits nicely with the fragrance concept!
“Fruit salad” - my first impression right after spraying. Delightfully natural, fruity-sour lemon, accompanied by juicy grapefruit, and perhaps a subtle hint of banana. Garnished with plenty of green, spicy and slightly minty, not sharp, not piercing, a gentle freshness.
Cut / Another aromatic image: My great-aunt used to marinate lettuce not with vinegar, but with freshly squeezed lemon juice and a bit of sugar. It was new and unusual to me as a kid, but I found it wonderful. A bit similar, gently spicy, chlorophyll-rich green and fresh yellow, is Aer. /
(I would have never thought of celery, but after reading the previous comments: Yes, with a bit of imagination and goodwill, I can smell that! It must be the yellow-green combination that can be perceived that way.)
Important is the juniper berry, which gives fruit salad and herbs a subtly bitter-gin-like refinement, making Air interesting and never boring.
All of this rests on a restrained, textured, earthy base, where I think I recognize my dear vetiver. With that, I have gathered the colors of the fragrance together: warm lemon yellow, juicy herb green, and textured-earthy ochre.
It stays quite close to the skin, but lasts for many hours, even on a warm summer day. The aromas are well connected and intertwined, so the character of the fragrance changes little over time. Together, this creates a scent that is pleasantly and long-lastingly perceptible close to the skin, very natural, uplifting, citrusy feel-good fragrance, gently fresh for sunny and hot days and smilingly warming for cool cloudy days.
The textured complexity of the fragrance seems to strike quite different chords in our individual memory orchestras - which explains the controversial impressions of the previous comments well.
The scents are said to originate from the Italian rural village idyll of Angela Ciampagna, with the bottle adorned with the replicated window rose of the Gothic village church. Except for Ducalis, which has some synthetic, unpleasant “sting” for me, I find all of them beautiful and unique. What they all have in common is that they feel full and textured, a bit earthy, salty, a bit archaic, barrel-fermented.... Individual fragrance molecules were not artfully combined with a pipette, but natural raw materials were mixed and fermented as a whole (what Leimbacher describes as “Spark of Animality,” I would explain this way). No fruit-flavored water, no clear fruit juice, but a naturally cloudy, full-bodied smoothie (almost) without artificial flavoring agents. And that’s how Aer also comes across: Not created in a stylish-sterile fragrance chemistry lab, but as a lemony aerosol rising from Miraculix’s magic potion cauldron. I like it!
P.S. 1: unisex
P.S. 2: beautiful angular-antiquing bottle with a patinated metal cap (and Gothic rosette on the 100 ml bottle) - fits nicely with the fragrance concept!
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Lost in Dark Woods
At first, I wanted to comment on the above fragrance notes, I would have titled it: Lost in Space!
I wanted to write that the perfumer has transformed the colorful photo of the warm, Mediterranean cypress into black and white mode, then cranked up the contrast to the maximum and finally slightly pixelated the remaining silhouette cypress trees: From sun-drenched, resinous-scented cypress trees, an aesthetically distant abstract fragrance portrait was created, cooled down to space temperature.
Further testing on a quiet holiday, previously Googled information: Sugi, the "Japanese cedar," is not actually a cedar but represents its own plant family. Fast-growing, an important timber tree in Japan, particularly planted in monocultures after World War II. The light wood is used for chopsticks, Japanese tatami mats, and furniture. Seeds can be used to grow bonsais. Images of the Sugi forests show dark, uninviting monocultures, with individual Sugi trees standing gnarled, dark, and serious.
Now I believe I understand the scent better: thousands of kilometers away from Mediterranean cypress trees!
Gin upon spraying - could be. Then dark coniferous green develops, also a bit herbal, I associate parsley. A tiny pee note, which I thought I perceived during the first test, I do not find again in further tests. Dark green, conifer needles and herbal notes quickly lose intensity, leaving behind a close, calm, serious wood scent that carries the hints of the top notes for a few hours.
Reduced Zen scent, dark and serious and cool. Unsuitable for a lively workday. Nice for a gloomy, free day when I allow myself solitude and melancholy - wonderfully described by the previous commentators.
And yet: Today I prefer to meditate under a warm Mediterranean cypress rather than lost in the dark, cool Sugi forest.
I wanted to write that the perfumer has transformed the colorful photo of the warm, Mediterranean cypress into black and white mode, then cranked up the contrast to the maximum and finally slightly pixelated the remaining silhouette cypress trees: From sun-drenched, resinous-scented cypress trees, an aesthetically distant abstract fragrance portrait was created, cooled down to space temperature.
Further testing on a quiet holiday, previously Googled information: Sugi, the "Japanese cedar," is not actually a cedar but represents its own plant family. Fast-growing, an important timber tree in Japan, particularly planted in monocultures after World War II. The light wood is used for chopsticks, Japanese tatami mats, and furniture. Seeds can be used to grow bonsais. Images of the Sugi forests show dark, uninviting monocultures, with individual Sugi trees standing gnarled, dark, and serious.
Now I believe I understand the scent better: thousands of kilometers away from Mediterranean cypress trees!
Gin upon spraying - could be. Then dark coniferous green develops, also a bit herbal, I associate parsley. A tiny pee note, which I thought I perceived during the first test, I do not find again in further tests. Dark green, conifer needles and herbal notes quickly lose intensity, leaving behind a close, calm, serious wood scent that carries the hints of the top notes for a few hours.
Reduced Zen scent, dark and serious and cool. Unsuitable for a lively workday. Nice for a gloomy, free day when I allow myself solitude and melancholy - wonderfully described by the previous commentators.
And yet: Today I prefer to meditate under a warm Mediterranean cypress rather than lost in the dark, cool Sugi forest.
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Summery Place of Longing!
First of all: A heartfelt thank you to you, M3000! Your sample of the fantastic DAHAB introduced me to the Scent Stories from MiN New York. The Discovery Set Vol. 1 with 11 fragrances soon became one of my favorite treasure chests. It has never happened to me before that I was delighted by almost every single one of 11 scent stories, with several truly captivating!
Dune Road became my first bottle from the collection - also due to the season:
And that is the secret of the glassy, shiny stylish black bottle: A fresh, light, warm, spicy sea breeze!
The Dune Road leads to a lonely coast, perhaps on the Atlantic, on a sunny summer day in a warm-temperate climate zone. I lay down in the sand, let the sun's rays tickle me, and hear only the wind and the buzzing of a few bees and flies. It smells of seawater, grass, sand, herbs, and a bit of resin. The air and the scents surrounding me are cool, clear, and pure. The scent notes remind me of rosemary (fresh and slightly resinous), perhaps also the wood and resin of low beach pines, dry tufts of grass in the sand (vetiver!), and borage (herbaceous-green, salty, aquatic). I associate the aquatic elements of the fragrance with something like cucumber water - it feels incredibly gentle, clear, and natural, much less strict, oily, and synthetic than I know from other "coastal fragrances" (Sel Marin, Salina, Acqua di Sale).
(Relaxed meditation in a warm, fragrant spa with a cooling, soothing cucumber mask on the face would be another association, even though I have never experienced anything like that :-)).
The relaxing and invigorating late summer late morning sun hours at the beach pass by way too quickly! The mixture of scent components remains quite constant throughout the fragrance development; the sunny-grassy-woody-warm scent components linger a bit longer than the aquatic-fresh ones (morning turns into noon), and the stimulating, flattering breeze slowly loses its strength after about 4-6 hours and gradually fades away. But the memory of it still brings a smile to my face even hours later - and I can always reapply and look forward to the next hours in the sun on the dune!
My comparison with other "sea and coastal fragrances":
Compared to Acqua di Sale (which is oilier, heavier, mustier), Sel Marin (which is sharper, more algal), or Salina (which is louder, more synthetic, and contains sunscreen), Dune Road is more transparent and airy and additionally has this wonderful botanical-resinous wood and dry grass note.
In comparison to Finisterre (which feels more generic and less clear in its expression, also somewhat citrusy), Dune Road is thematically clearer, more puristic, "cleaner," and longer-lasting.
The sillage is that of a fresh breeze - not loud or intrusive.
The Bauhaus-inspired bottle in elegantly shimmering velvety black with a magnetically closing wooden cap emphasizes the value of the fragrance - I find it very beautiful!
The scent journey to the longing dune is certainly not cheap - but it's worth its price!
Dune Road became my first bottle from the collection - also due to the season:
And that is the secret of the glassy, shiny stylish black bottle: A fresh, light, warm, spicy sea breeze!
The Dune Road leads to a lonely coast, perhaps on the Atlantic, on a sunny summer day in a warm-temperate climate zone. I lay down in the sand, let the sun's rays tickle me, and hear only the wind and the buzzing of a few bees and flies. It smells of seawater, grass, sand, herbs, and a bit of resin. The air and the scents surrounding me are cool, clear, and pure. The scent notes remind me of rosemary (fresh and slightly resinous), perhaps also the wood and resin of low beach pines, dry tufts of grass in the sand (vetiver!), and borage (herbaceous-green, salty, aquatic). I associate the aquatic elements of the fragrance with something like cucumber water - it feels incredibly gentle, clear, and natural, much less strict, oily, and synthetic than I know from other "coastal fragrances" (Sel Marin, Salina, Acqua di Sale).
(Relaxed meditation in a warm, fragrant spa with a cooling, soothing cucumber mask on the face would be another association, even though I have never experienced anything like that :-)).
The relaxing and invigorating late summer late morning sun hours at the beach pass by way too quickly! The mixture of scent components remains quite constant throughout the fragrance development; the sunny-grassy-woody-warm scent components linger a bit longer than the aquatic-fresh ones (morning turns into noon), and the stimulating, flattering breeze slowly loses its strength after about 4-6 hours and gradually fades away. But the memory of it still brings a smile to my face even hours later - and I can always reapply and look forward to the next hours in the sun on the dune!
My comparison with other "sea and coastal fragrances":
Compared to Acqua di Sale (which is oilier, heavier, mustier), Sel Marin (which is sharper, more algal), or Salina (which is louder, more synthetic, and contains sunscreen), Dune Road is more transparent and airy and additionally has this wonderful botanical-resinous wood and dry grass note.
In comparison to Finisterre (which feels more generic and less clear in its expression, also somewhat citrusy), Dune Road is thematically clearer, more puristic, "cleaner," and longer-lasting.
The sillage is that of a fresh breeze - not loud or intrusive.
The Bauhaus-inspired bottle in elegantly shimmering velvety black with a magnetically closing wooden cap emphasizes the value of the fragrance - I find it very beautiful!
The scent journey to the longing dune is certainly not cheap - but it's worth its price!
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Spring Mystique - Spring Power!
Sacre Du Printemps - the ballet music by Stravinsky! I first encountered it decades ago as organ music: powerful, herbaceous, beautiful! Premiered in 1913, revolutionary at the time, provoking discontent. Depicted ritual: the sacrifice of a virgin to the spring god!
This claim of the name: Sacre Du Printemps - fragrance by Vincent Micotti!
Opening: Emerald green, moist-earthy, smoky. Freshly pressed juice from spring flower stems. Galbanum is likely a main actor, blackcurrant leaf serving in a more subordinate role. A walk in the morning mist in a dark forest, dew dripping from the trees, moss dampening the feet, somewhere in the distance freshly cut wood. Coolness, severity, silence, security. A promise of spring warmth, summer freshness.
Heart: The first rays of sun break through. Rising gentle warmth, the ground now smells drier, peatier, the green milder, a hint of anise (angelica root).
Base: The fading of the spring morning walk, the mist lifts, over the fields lies the delicate green blanket of already sprouted seeds and in the garden bloom scentless snowdrops and crocuses, tulips and daffodils are already budding, but far and wide there is still no floral scent: vetiver as a building block for sun-warmed spring earth. Drying wood in the distance.
Summary: The rising of the juices, the transformation of the mineral into the living through photosynthesis, the magical promises of spring are the theme of this fragrance. A scent like earthy smoke, emerald, and chlorophyll. Extremely natural in effect.
I never thought I would acquire a fragrance at this (!) price (small consolation: there are even more expensive ones!). But the small free sample that the nice people from Ys Uzac included with a fragrance shipment "flashed" me from the first whiff (verb borrowed from Dave Gahan). THIS is the spring and summer fragrance for festive occasions: my goddaughter's wedding (recently), a young colleague's wedding (a few days ago). Soon the wedding of a nephew: I look forward to the big celebration and the fragrance that will accompany me: optimistic, powerful, dignified, beautiful.....
Later I learned that Vincent Micotti worked directly with farmers for the sourcing of the fragrance plants and extracts - I believe it immediately.
Longevity for a fragrance in this price range is not very enduring, but for a fragrance that is thoroughly green and natural, it is good. Beautiful, rather understated, effortless sillage.
Bottle: mystical golden sheen on mysterious black glass!
This claim of the name: Sacre Du Printemps - fragrance by Vincent Micotti!
Opening: Emerald green, moist-earthy, smoky. Freshly pressed juice from spring flower stems. Galbanum is likely a main actor, blackcurrant leaf serving in a more subordinate role. A walk in the morning mist in a dark forest, dew dripping from the trees, moss dampening the feet, somewhere in the distance freshly cut wood. Coolness, severity, silence, security. A promise of spring warmth, summer freshness.
Heart: The first rays of sun break through. Rising gentle warmth, the ground now smells drier, peatier, the green milder, a hint of anise (angelica root).
Base: The fading of the spring morning walk, the mist lifts, over the fields lies the delicate green blanket of already sprouted seeds and in the garden bloom scentless snowdrops and crocuses, tulips and daffodils are already budding, but far and wide there is still no floral scent: vetiver as a building block for sun-warmed spring earth. Drying wood in the distance.
Summary: The rising of the juices, the transformation of the mineral into the living through photosynthesis, the magical promises of spring are the theme of this fragrance. A scent like earthy smoke, emerald, and chlorophyll. Extremely natural in effect.
I never thought I would acquire a fragrance at this (!) price (small consolation: there are even more expensive ones!). But the small free sample that the nice people from Ys Uzac included with a fragrance shipment "flashed" me from the first whiff (verb borrowed from Dave Gahan). THIS is the spring and summer fragrance for festive occasions: my goddaughter's wedding (recently), a young colleague's wedding (a few days ago). Soon the wedding of a nephew: I look forward to the big celebration and the fragrance that will accompany me: optimistic, powerful, dignified, beautiful.....
Later I learned that Vincent Micotti worked directly with farmers for the sourcing of the fragrance plants and extracts - I believe it immediately.
Longevity for a fragrance in this price range is not very enduring, but for a fragrance that is thoroughly green and natural, it is good. Beautiful, rather understated, effortless sillage.
Bottle: mystical golden sheen on mysterious black glass!
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Roadmovie!
Rrroooaarrrrr….. Cloud of smoke, tar, lemon: the start of the fragrance journey on a cool, breezy summer morning in the big city. Gasoline and asphalt fumes from the summer night and the memory of the evening in the jazz cellar still linger in the air, fruit crates filled with citrus from the street vendor who has just set up contribute a zesty freshness, the cool morning wind already carries a hint of the scents of the countryside (fields, forests...) into the city. From afar, the opening reminds me of Knize Ten, but I can't compare anymore, the sample was long ago: probably the smoke and the urban vibe.
The journey takes us through suburbs to the countryside. We visit a sawmill - it smells of freshly sawn wood, slightly burnt from the heat of the saw blade. We have plenty of leisure and admire next door a painter's studio filled with swirls of turpentine. The strong colors: gray, brown, green, ochre - just like the scent that accompanies us!
Later, around noon, we stroll through a very open coniferous forest, the warmth of the strong sun rays makes the scent of pine and fir cones rise from the forest floor. We are not entirely sure, but we think we occasionally catch faintly sweet wafts from a sunlit lavender field that must be nearby.
In the afternoon of this warm, sunny August day, the grain fields are already harvested, and somewhere straw fires are probably burning, the narrow road leads us to the place where we will arrive. The wind has stopped, it is quiet, in the afternoon sun the scent impressions become subdued, hay, straw, dry herbs, dry moss, dead wood from the nearby field hedge exude a crackling-quiet, restrained aroma, almost creamy (that must be the tonka bean). Wrapped in the fading woody-mild scent tapestry, we still sense a bit of asphalt, smoke, and turpentine, letting the memories of the day pass by…..
On The Road is indeed a fragrance journey, a road movie. Similar in its dominant smoky note are Mississippi Medicine and Burning Barbershop by D.S. & Durga. Mississippi Medicine is more citrusy and bright, Burning Barbershop sweeter and more lavender-like. As colors, I would assign Mississippi Medicine light yellow-sulfur yellow-gray, Burning Barbershop purple-gray, and On The Road gray-light brown-green ochre. The two Durga fragrances are somewhat more pastel, while On The Road is more vividly drawn, like an expressive yet harmonious color woodcut.
Objective, aesthetically proportioned bottle. Beautiful outer box designed with photographic art, the title photo can be freely selected when ordering. Inspiring scent, inspired design (this also applies to Timothy Han's website). The fragrance name refers to the novel by Jack Kerouac, 1957: the content is characterized in Wikipedia as "Sex, Drugs 'n' Jazz," a wild journey of two men across the North American continent to Mexico. I should probably read it!
(Personal P.S.: Fragrances with birch tar notes had previously deterred me, I quickly dismissed Knize Ten back then, and I initially had a spontaneous aversion to the two mentioned D.S. & Durga fragrances, which later turned into affection. Why the decision for a bottle of "On The Road" now? Perhaps I was simply ready for a smoky scent, for THIS scent. Perhaps because I wore the fragrance for the first time just before Christmas, at a time that matched the name of the fragrance: the completely surprising transformation of my neighbor's house (single-family home, rural-suburban southern German outskirts) into a shelter for refugee families from Syria and Iraq: the new, impressive, and even friendly contacts that arise with the families, their moving stories, make one experience how "To Be On The Road" is a fundamental human condition. It's good if there is also an "arrival" in the meantime!)
The journey takes us through suburbs to the countryside. We visit a sawmill - it smells of freshly sawn wood, slightly burnt from the heat of the saw blade. We have plenty of leisure and admire next door a painter's studio filled with swirls of turpentine. The strong colors: gray, brown, green, ochre - just like the scent that accompanies us!
Later, around noon, we stroll through a very open coniferous forest, the warmth of the strong sun rays makes the scent of pine and fir cones rise from the forest floor. We are not entirely sure, but we think we occasionally catch faintly sweet wafts from a sunlit lavender field that must be nearby.
In the afternoon of this warm, sunny August day, the grain fields are already harvested, and somewhere straw fires are probably burning, the narrow road leads us to the place where we will arrive. The wind has stopped, it is quiet, in the afternoon sun the scent impressions become subdued, hay, straw, dry herbs, dry moss, dead wood from the nearby field hedge exude a crackling-quiet, restrained aroma, almost creamy (that must be the tonka bean). Wrapped in the fading woody-mild scent tapestry, we still sense a bit of asphalt, smoke, and turpentine, letting the memories of the day pass by…..
On The Road is indeed a fragrance journey, a road movie. Similar in its dominant smoky note are Mississippi Medicine and Burning Barbershop by D.S. & Durga. Mississippi Medicine is more citrusy and bright, Burning Barbershop sweeter and more lavender-like. As colors, I would assign Mississippi Medicine light yellow-sulfur yellow-gray, Burning Barbershop purple-gray, and On The Road gray-light brown-green ochre. The two Durga fragrances are somewhat more pastel, while On The Road is more vividly drawn, like an expressive yet harmonious color woodcut.
Objective, aesthetically proportioned bottle. Beautiful outer box designed with photographic art, the title photo can be freely selected when ordering. Inspiring scent, inspired design (this also applies to Timothy Han's website). The fragrance name refers to the novel by Jack Kerouac, 1957: the content is characterized in Wikipedia as "Sex, Drugs 'n' Jazz," a wild journey of two men across the North American continent to Mexico. I should probably read it!
(Personal P.S.: Fragrances with birch tar notes had previously deterred me, I quickly dismissed Knize Ten back then, and I initially had a spontaneous aversion to the two mentioned D.S. & Durga fragrances, which later turned into affection. Why the decision for a bottle of "On The Road" now? Perhaps I was simply ready for a smoky scent, for THIS scent. Perhaps because I wore the fragrance for the first time just before Christmas, at a time that matched the name of the fragrance: the completely surprising transformation of my neighbor's house (single-family home, rural-suburban southern German outskirts) into a shelter for refugee families from Syria and Iraq: the new, impressive, and even friendly contacts that arise with the families, their moving stories, make one experience how "To Be On The Road" is a fundamental human condition. It's good if there is also an "arrival" in the meantime!)
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