Amai Arashiyama
Extrait de Parfum 50ml
Eau de Parfum 18%
In the opening, a juicy grapefruit leads the way to the round Bamboo accord.
It is a very subtle play of light and dark, a fragrance that relaxes but transforms into something more, a joyful meditative tale.
The characteristic of this accord is that it mixes with sugar cane, and it was like inserting a small leap into the heart, like wanting to remember that Arashiyama is a graceful place, where our thoughts become flexible, fluid.
Amai Arashiyama means Sweet Arashiyama, this place is the most famous bamboo forest in the world and is located in Japan in the Kyoto area.
Don't imagine a sweet perfume, rather a well-drawn watercolor of delicate contrasts.
A small note of Rhubarb makes the composition more interesting, contributes to its natural evolution and lashes out like a tonic.
Cedar wood, incense and amber release that depth that in my opinion every perfume needs.
But not only that: the natural elements and the absolutes that I wanted to use make everything vivid and iridescent.
Like for example the Mediterranean pine absolute, which emanates a heat all its own, like the one you perceive in the Maremma returning from the beach on a July evening.
Description of the fragrance:
The citrus opening of the grapefruit brings the soul back to the axis of the sun while a small Calabrian bergamot blends with the breath of milky woods, transporting the senses into a heart of bamboo. You can smell the greenery that creeps through the reeds making them sing like flutes filled by the wind. The sunset expresses the elegance of meditation where feminine and masculine energy meet in perfect balance, where pleasant scents that are first warm and then fresh fill the heart with harmony, leaving behind a trail of zen colours.
Symbolism of creation:
Arashiyama is the most famous Japanese bamboo forest in the world, there is a particular atmosphere that transmits a lot of balance and illuminates everything, including souls. The Bamboo note in perfumery is a fantasy accord or a set of sensations that the perfumer wants to convey through the story of something that in reality does not have a precise smell. Especially during childhood, almost everyone has come across a trip to the river where they played with these reeds, improvising musical instruments or bases for huts. In this case the tactile, auditory and visual sensation is certainly greater than the olfactory one since what arrives is a very delicate hint of grass or leaves, a lymphatic but very very faint and generic smell. When this happens, the other senses act as catalysts to increase olfactory imagination, this is what is called synesthesia: colours, sounds, touch are transformed into smell and vice versa. Everything becomes a sensorial experience and becomes a beautiful journey that can be expressed using essences.
Amai Arashiyama is this, an abstract fragment that each of us has inside, hidden or more exposed somewhere: in childhood, in the vision of a postcard, in the sound of a pan flute. To imagine this note you can also listen to the sound of the rain pipe, it is a perfect metaphor for the breathing of the woods.
