Estevia
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
Lime and raspberry snap into immediate focus, their tartness amplified by fern's green, almost damp herbaceous quality—there's an almost shocking lack of sweetness here. Lychee adds complexity rather than indulgence, its floral stone-fruit character supporting the citric bite rather than softening it.
Fir balsam emerges as the protagonist, its resinous, pine-inflected warmth anchoring the composition as geranium's spicy-green florality intensifies around it. The fragrance settles into a distinctly woody-herbal temperament, with ambergris adding an insistent, slightly creamy animalic depth that prevents the composition from becoming brittle.
Oakmoss, musk, amber, and sandalwood create a soft, almost muted woody-amber foundation that retains the green spiciness throughout rather than transforming into something warmer or more conventional. The base lingers with earthy restraint—fragrant, present, but never cloying or heavy.
Estevia — Arion is a fragrance that refuses the comfort of sweetness, instead leaning into the green, almost austere pleasures of fern-touched citrus and resinous forest air. Joseph DeLapp has constructed something deliberately cool-blooded here: the lychee arrives not as a sugary fruit confection but as a tart, slightly floral stone fruit that immediately angles toward lime's sharp bite and the vegetal whisper of fern. There's a botanical precision to this opening that suggests less a fruit bowl and more a walk through a Scandinavian woodland where berries grow beneath fir trees.
The heart reveals the architect's hand most clearly. Fir balsam—that resinous, almost medicinal evergreen note—becomes the emotional core, with geranium's peppery green florality sharpening the composition further. The ambergris softens this austerity only marginally, introducing a warm, slightly animalic undertone without ever allowing the fragrance to tip toward comfort or romance. This is not rose as the heart's traditional centrepiece; instead, DeLapp uses rose as one voice in a choir of green and spicy elements, subordinate to the woody, resinous narrative.
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