Eau de Parfum

High desert air, sacred fragile flowers, eyelash grass, and new money.

“Nouveau Ranch opens with sparkle and citrus, as if gleaming for townsfolk before turning away and withdrawing into a journey away from the center. With each movement, a body is built—this is the popular concept of a ‘skin scent’ but here composed for a straw man, in which wood and root and sweetly earthy components are smoothed into a fleshy, enlivened quality. Palo santo’s more radiant woody aspects are gently cooled with a plush violet leaf, together effecting a quality of downy underbrush relaxed in the nighttime, spun into fairytale gold, a cushioned pyre for contemplative ritual. The underlying orris is supple, vegetal, and musky in the context of a neat cedarwood.” — Matt Morris, Fragrantica

Nouveau Ranch is from Fray Ardens’ signature Mythopoesis/As Above line which also includes Anima and Frau.

NOTES

blood citrus
cosmic vortex air
sacred wood
nopal
orris
violet leaf
cedar wood
singed grass

NOSE — Ash Compton

United States, 2017

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