Aaron Terence Hughes
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
The lime punches in immediately, its acidity sharpened by that metallic ozone note—you're standing outside after a summer downpour, the air itself seeming edible. Within minutes, the coconut begins its creep upwards, tempering that brightness with creamy sweetness.
The spearmint mingles with mocha and coconut to create an almost gourmand cologne effect—imagine a white chocolate and espresso mousse dusted with mint. The driftwood starts its slow emergence beneath, adding texture and subtle wood-grain salty quality that prevents cloying tendencies.
Ozone settles into its ambergris and skin-accord foundation, becoming gossamer-thin and intimate. The patchouli whispers rather than announces, and you're left with a faint coconut-cream warmth tinged with driftwood and a ghost of that original ozone freshness—a scent you catch only when you bring your wrist to your face.
Aaron Terence Hughes' Ozone is a fragrance that sits in an intriguing liminal space—neither quite aquatic nor entirely gourmand, yet somehow both. The opening lime arrives with an almost metallic crispness, the ozone accord giving it an ozonic charge that suggests rain-washed air rather than the tired "fresh" descriptor most fragrances hide behind. What's immediately compelling is how quickly the composition pivots inward: that citrus top doesn't linger as a conventional brightness, but rather acts as a counterpoint to the creamy coconut and mocha emerging in the heart.
This is where Ozone reveals its true character. The spearmint mingles with coconut to create something almost tropical-creamy, whilst the mocha adds an unexpected chocolatey warmth that prevents the fragrance from ever feeling purely summery. It's reminiscent of a toasted coconut shell lined with espresso cream—indulgent without pretension. The driftwood base then anchors everything with a subtle, weathered quality; not the synthetic driftwood of designer fragrances, but something that feels genuinely sun-bleached and salt-touched.
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