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Astronomy Domine
Pepper and iris are an unusual pairing to build a fragrance around, and Min New York Astronomy Domine Eau de Parfum makes a quiet, polished thing out of them.
White pepper opens it, dry and prickling without the heat of the black variety, with cardamom beside it adding an aromatic, faintly camphorous snap. Sicilian bergamot is the bright element, sharper and cleaner than bergamot usually reads, and the three together make an opening that is crisp rather than sweet.
The middle is smoother. Sandalwood arrives early, creamy and soft, jasmine gives it a heady floral lift, and patchouli brings in a dark, earthy counterweight. Then iris takes over and becomes the point of the whole thing, cold and powdery with that faintly starchy, root vegetable austerity it always has. White musk and amber support it, one soft and skin close, the other resinously warm.
Nine materials, which is a sensible count for a composition that wants to be elegant rather than complicated. In wear it is close and long lasting rather than loud. It will see out a working day, and it is the sort of fragrance people notice when they are near you rather than when you walk past. It reads unisex, works year round and is particularly good in an office, where iris behaves itself in a way that heavier materials do not. It is also a reasonable choice for anyone who has decided they dislike sweetness in fragrance, since there is none here to speak of and the closest it comes is the warmth of the amber at the end.
The house behind it grew out of a curated New York apothecary, opened by Chad Murawczyk, which put out perfumes of its own only afterwards. They are produced in Grasse and organised into Scent Stories and Experimental.
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