Antares

Fragrance description

We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars. When I was a little boy, my parents often moved around and took me and my brother with them. Back then, I liked to look through the car window and always found a star to fix my eyes on throughout the drive. Space has always seemed to me as something distant, mysterious, but at the same time dangerous...and to this day I associate it mostly with loneliness.

In Astra is a fairly new perfume brand from Italy that aims to combine two passions: the art of perfumery and the science of astronomy. The three fragrances released so far bear the names of three distant stars. Antares is my favorite from the brand.

Although Antares is dedicated to a star with that very name, I associate it with the starry sky you admire from Earth when you lie in the grass and gaze at the stars. An exhilarating summer night. I also imagine a surreal image of an alien planet, an endless meadow filled with tuberose and fragipani flowers (this flower is beautiful) under a sky of hitherto unknown colors. This fragrance is a hearty combination of thick tuberose, creamy and slightly powdery fragipani (aka plumeria) spiced with pink pepper in the opening on a charming base of amber and sandalwood, which means that not only does the scent stay on your skin longer, but it also ensures that you can't stop enjoying this fragrance as it is highly addictive. To be honest, all of this, these animalic aspects...I have a dirty mind. The sweetness is perfectly balanced in this unisex scent (leaning towards feminine) that is perfect as a night scent in the spring or summer.

After a long time of monotonous driving, the picture is a bit blurry, but the star I chose was the brightest. Who's to say it wasn't Antares... a supergiant star that burns 10,000 times brighter than our own sun.

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