Rituals
Rituals
180 votes
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
Blackcurrant hits with immediate tartness, accompanied by a fresh green snap that feels almost vegetable-like in its authenticity. The mandarin adds citrus brightness, but it's restrained—lacking the typical cheerful pop, instead lending an almost savoury quality to the opening salvo.
The sage emerges as a peppery anchor, tempering the raspberry's sweetness with herbal sophistication. Geranium weaves through, adding a slightly powdery, green-spice complexity that prevents the fruit from becoming syrupy, creating an intriguing push-pull between sweetness and austerity.
Vetiver and patchouli settle into the foreground, their earthy grassiness softened considerably by copaiba balsam's creamy, almost oily warmth. The fragrance becomes increasingly intimate, transforming from fresh and fruity into something more sensual and grounded—a gentle fade rather than a dramatic collapse.
Nuit d'Azar announces itself as a paradox: a nocturnal fragrance that refuses to surrender the day. The blackcurrant opening doesn't whisper—it arrives with the sharp, almost tart precision of fruit caught between ripeness and fermentation, immediately grounded by green leaf accord that suggests crushed vegetation rather than floral delicacy. There's something vaguely herbaceous and slightly dusty here, as though you've brushed past sage growing wild in Mediterranean scrubland just as twilight falls.
What's remarkable is how Rituals has resisted the cloying sweetness that lesser fruity fragrances default to. Instead, the raspberry and geranium in the heart create a friction—geranium's peppery, slightly astringent character actively arguing against the fruit's natural inclination toward sugar. The mandarin orange, rather than playing it safe with cheerfulness, develops a more serious, almost bitter edge as it sits alongside this botanical resistance.
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