Fragrance Notes
Intuition
Aramis Intuition Eau de Parfum is a quiet, dry and slightly odd fragrance from a house whose name is usually attached to something a good deal louder.
We hold six materials for it, and the record does not split them into top and base, so take them as one picture rather than as a sequence. Grapefruit provides the bright part, more rind than juice, bitter and a little sour. Lavender follows with a clean herbal calm, the soapy aromatic kind rather than the sweet kind. Orris is the luxury in the formula, cool and powdery, with the faintly carroty, root-cellar quality that good orris always carries.
The weight comes from the other three. Patchouli is damp and earthy, vetiver is dry and smoky-green like a root pulled out of hard soil, and Cuirissima LXR, a captive material supplied under that name, sits underneath lending the whole thing a dry, faintly animal grip. That last one is the reason the scent keeps its shape instead of evaporating into something merely pleasant, and it is also why it reads as more expensive than it is. It behaves like a short composition because it is one. There is no long evolution to follow and no dramatic turn an hour in. The eau de parfum strength gives it staying power without volume, so it holds close and lasts, which suits an office, a long working day and almost any weather. It is sold to men and wears cleanly on anyone who likes a dry fragrance.
Aramis is an American men's fragrance and grooming label created in 1963 by Estee Lauder and still owned by The Estee Lauder Companies. It was introduced as a full grooming range rather than as a single bottle, and it is generally credited as the first American prestige fragrance made specifically for men.
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