Electimuss
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
A sharp burst of tart raspberry crashes against warming cardamom spice, creating an opening that feels simultaneously fresh and slightly unsettling. The spice dominates—almost clove-like in intensity—refusing to let the fruit settle into anything conventionally sweet.
Turkish rose emerges as the cardamom softens, though it arrives already shadowed by geranium's green, slightly peppery presence and leather's creeping influence. By the second hour, a subtle animalic quality develops—the leather and rose creating something almost faintly sweaty, mineral, decidedly more sophisticated than its opening suggested.
The fragrance settles into a cool, slightly resinous base dominated by violet leaf absolute's green-mineral character and increasingly prominent leather notes. Patchouli and labdanum create a papery dryness whilst white oud adds subtle woody complexity, leaving skin smelling faintly dusty, vaguely animalic, and curiously elegant.
Aquila Absolute announces itself as something altogether more textured than your typical fruity-floral. Julien Rasquinet has crafted a fragrance that refuses easy categorisation, threading raspberry's bright acidity through a cardamom accord so assertively spiced it verges on peppery—there's a warmth here that immediately suggests sophistication rather than frivolity. This isn't fruit as candy; it's fruit as counterpoint, a tart opening that lends structure to what unfolds beneath.
The heart reveals Rasquinet's true intention. Turkish rose absolute and Egyptian geranium don't blend into some generic floral haze; instead, they create a distinctly green, almost herbal florality that edges towards animalic as it encounters the leather base notes. There's something vaguely unsettling about this combination—geranium's slightly metallic character playing against rose's creamy warmth whilst leather creeps in from below like smoke through fabric. This is the scent's crux: a carefully balanced tension between beauty and something more austere.
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