Rasasi
Rasasi
202 votes
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
The violet leaf hits like a slap of bitter chlorophyll, all metallic stems and crushed greenery, whilst galbanum adds its signature medicinal sharpness. Tangerine flickers at the edges, providing just enough citric brightness to prevent the opening from becoming oppressively vegetal, though this remains defiantly, almost aggressively green.
The clary sage emerges with its peculiar, skin-like warmth, mixing with mate's tobacco-ish earthiness to create something that hovers between herbal infusion and dried leather. The spicy accord builds here, not from conventional pepper or cinnamon, but from the complex interaction of bitter herbs and aromatic woods, creating heat through friction rather than sweetness.
Styrax's dark, balsamic sweetness melds with buttery leather and powdered iris, creating an unexpectedly elegant finish that retains just enough vetiver smoke to remind you of the wild opening. The greenness lingers as a ghost note beneath the skin, ensuring this never becomes merely another pleasant woody-leather scent.
La Yuqawam Ambergris Showers opens with a shock of verdancy that's almost medicinal in its intensity—violet leaf and galbanum create a metallic, cucumber-cool bitterness that sweeps away any notion of this being a polite green fragrance. The tangerine barely sweetens the blow; instead, it sharpens the edges, adding a citric astringency that makes your nose tingle. This is the smell of snapped stems and crushed leaves after rain, not a manicured garden.
As the green assault subsides, something stranger emerges. The clary sage brings a peculiar, almost sweaty herbal quality that mingles with what I assume is 'mat' (likely a typo for mate, the South American tea), creating an earthy, tobacco-adjacent bitterness. It's here that La Yuqawam reveals its true character—this isn't fresh in the aquatic sense, but fresh like cold air in a damp forest, tinged with smoke.
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