Rasasi
Rasasi
80 votes
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
Violet leaf and spruce collide immediately, creating an almost vegetal shock that's interrupted by juniper's resinous bite and grapefruit's bitter edge. Within the first minute, you're standing in a coniferous forest after rain, not in a comfortable cologne.
The fir needle and galbanum take over by the thirty-minute mark, the composition shifting from citrus-forward to decisively herbaceous and green. Florentine iris attempts to add softness but emerges as a whispered undertone, unable to compete with the green notes' insistent chatter. By two hours, Egra has settled into an aromatic skin scent that feels more like eau de toilette in character than the concentration suggests.
Oakmoss and musk create a dry, slightly mossy foundation whilst sandalwood adds the faintest vanilla warmth in the final hours. The fragrance becomes increasingly close-to-skin, almost medicinal in its restraint, with the green notes finally submitting to the woody base. A cedar-like dryness lingers into the evening, pleasant but thoroughly undemanding.
Egra for Men is a restless composition that refuses to settle into comfortable territory—it's a fragrance for the man who feels equally at home in a boardroom and on a hiking trail, though never quite at ease in either. The violet leaf doesn't perfume so much as it sharpens, cutting through the top notes with a green, almost pencil-shaving intensity that's bolstered by spruce and juniper berry. There's a brisk, Scandinavian clarity here, the kind of freshness that makes you think of resinous forest air rather than designer freshness. Grapefruit arrives as a secondary player, adding citrus sparkle without sweetness—it's the bitter white pith rather than the candy-bright juice.
What distinguishes Egra is the heart's peculiar dialogue between fir needle and galbanum. The galbanum brings a grassy, slightly herbaceous push that prevents this from becoming merely aromatic; the fir needle responds with an almost minty coolness. Florentine iris—that powder-soft, violet-tinged note—struggles to assert itself against this green onslaught, creating an internal tension that's intellectually interesting if occasionally at odds with itself.
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