Aramis
Fragrance notes
Character
Aramis Aramis has been around since 1966, composed by Bernard Chant, and it still smells like it belongs to a different decade of masculine perfumery, leather, moss and animalic musk stacked without much apology.
Aldehydes and myrrh open it with a sharp, slightly bitter edge, thyme and artemisia adding a green streak before bergamot and gardenia soften the top. On skin it lasts well beyond the point where lighter fragrances tend to fade, the mossy structure clinging to fabric as much as to skin.
The heart turns spicier and greener at once, patchouli and sage sitting next to cardamom and orris root, with jasmine keeping a floral thread running through it. Leather, oakmoss and vetiver go dry and earthy in the base, coconut adding an odd waxy sweetness against the animalic musk, and amber warming the whole thing without making it soft.
Its presence forms a steady bubble that anyone nearby would pick up without trying. Cold weather suits it particularly well, and it wears equally well through day or evening, though the animalic streak asks for a wearer who likes that register over one who wants something clean.
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