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Notes06/01/2018
9.5/10
Damascena
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Damascena
Abandon all fear, ye who enter here
A sanctuary of fragrant darkness guarding the entrance to Akhenaton’s tomb.
An ancient armory inside gilded by dusty wooden shrines, with splintered spears and broken arrows carved out of the cultivated sickness of the sacred agar tree, their leathery tips still coated in the blackest of oily tars; wooden shields covered in cracked painted animal hides resting against the empty anthropoid coffins.
Scarab amulets of jade, gifts of bundled strands of fiery-golden saffron forgotten in broken canopian jars and skeletons of floral bouquets laying scattered amongst families of fossilised Egyptian Rousetti, with Isis and Nephthys watching the earthly cycle from above in patient humility.
Oud Ankaa, the rare phoenix of ouds, is a tour de force of perfume art and a lesson in contemplative darkness. Evocative, memorable and monumental yet its aura radiates calmly without fear. Comprised of aged Indian agarwood ornated with minimalistic influences of floral spices and animalic leathers Oud Ankaa is now as extinct as the oud oils that created it. Lucky is who owns her.
An ancient armory inside gilded by dusty wooden shrines, with splintered spears and broken arrows carved out of the cultivated sickness of the sacred agar tree, their leathery tips still coated in the blackest of oily tars; wooden shields covered in cracked painted animal hides resting against the empty anthropoid coffins.
Scarab amulets of jade, gifts of bundled strands of fiery-golden saffron forgotten in broken canopian jars and skeletons of floral bouquets laying scattered amongst families of fossilised Egyptian Rousetti, with Isis and Nephthys watching the earthly cycle from above in patient humility.
Oud Ankaa, the rare phoenix of ouds, is a tour de force of perfume art and a lesson in contemplative darkness. Evocative, memorable and monumental yet its aura radiates calmly without fear. Comprised of aged Indian agarwood ornated with minimalistic influences of floral spices and animalic leathers Oud Ankaa is now as extinct as the oud oils that created it. Lucky is who owns her.
