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A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
Crushed green leaves burst forth with starfruit's tart sparkle, creating an almost herbal snap that feels wet and garden-fresh. Pot marigold's unexpected sharpness cuts through, preventing the opening from softening into conventional aquatic pleasantness—there's an almost salty quality beneath the brightness.
Watermelon arrives with fleshy sweetness as lotus creeps in with creamy, almost animalic undertones that feel at odds with the fruit. Peony floats just behind, a whisper of rose-adjacent softness that quietly anchors the increasingly complex, slightly discordant fruity-floral middle. The composition becomes more blended and harder to parse as individual notes.
Cedar and woods emerge from beneath, providing skeleton-like structure as musk and amber warm the base into something powdery and vaguely soapy. The fragrance becomes increasingly abstract, tender, and skin-close—a pale woody shadow where fruit and flowers once distinctly lived.
Into the Blue arrives as an aquatic breath rather than a declaration, anchored by Richard Ibanez's clever deployment of green naturals that refuse to play the expected role. The grass and leaves don't read as decorative—they're structural, creating a verdant foundation upon which everything else perches. Pot marigold, rarely seen in fragrance, adds an almost herbal sharpness that prevents the composition from becoming another soft fruity-floral. Starfruit emerges with a peculiar juiciness, slightly tart and crystalline, but it never dominates; instead, it threads through the opening like a thread of sweetness that knows restraint.
The heart reveals watermelon's flesh-pink juiciness tempered by lotus's mysterious, slightly creamy presence—a pairing that feels deliberately uncomventional rather than naturally cohesive. Peony arrives late, softening the edges without sentimentality. What makes Into the Blue compelling is its refusal to commit fully to any single direction. It's aquatic without being ozonic, fruity without being gourmand, floral without being rosy or heady. This fragrance suits the person who finds most fragrances too loud, too obvious, too insistent on being noticed. It's for morning commutes and casual afternoons, for those who want their skin to smell like something memorable without broadcasting it across the room.
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