Electimuss Spice D’Arno (Céline Barel) 2024 + New Explorer’s Giveaway

June 13, 2024June 13, 2024

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Spice D’Arno is the first release from Electimuss’ new Explorer Collection, drawing inspiration from our Roman ancestors and their many roads travelled as their empire expanded. This new line is housed in a stunning orange glass flacon and insignia, glowing like a sunrise at dawn on a new adventure and perfumer Céline Barel takes us one through the city of Florence in which the Arno River flows. The way Electimuss Spice D’Arno has been composed is rather clever as its materials flow together taking us on a delicious journey that runs through like a river.

Some kind of serendipity happened with Electimuss’ Spice D’Arno, I’d been encountering lots of vanilla perfumes lately but nothing was quite doing it for me. One day the scent of vanilla was hanging in the air as a breeze brought a roasted wheat haze in from the Guinness Storehouse,(on brew days its aroma permeates the air for miles), that soft bran wheat aroma melding with vanilla became my Roman Empire. I looked to not avail, but Spice D’Arno arrived and I as I sprayed it for the first time, a big smile grew on my face. This was it and more!

Perfumer Céline Barel of IFF and Electimuss Spice D’Arno courtesy of the brand.

Sharp fresh citruses shimmer with a sparkling pink pepper, it wakes you up before a stunning bean note takes centre stage with elemi giving the soft spiced citruses an aromatic twist while also feeling slightly incense like. Like a new thought for a new adventure. The bran note has stolen my heart; it’s incredibly unique in Electimuss Spice D’Arno, showing off its multiple facets as the perfume flows from start to end. It’s pops with pecan while also giving a slightly toasted hay nutty feel that gets deliciously creamy as cardamom smoothens things out, whispering of the creamy dreams to come. The Bran Absolute LMR has this beautiful warmth like you’re walking into a soft heat with an almost dry honeyed facet feeling almost floral at its edges. Perfumer Céline Barel expertly expands these floral facets with a soft iris, which also nods conceptually to Florence, the city in which this river flows and Florentine Iris. The iris picks up from the cardamom giving it a powdery elegance that’s dry with the bran dominant, getting more and more like a delicious wheaty chocolate powder as a woody rich vanilla emerges. There’s hints of oud peaking over the horizon giving a darker facet that works as the clever counterpart to the elegant dusty vanilla sweetness. Narcotic whispers of orange blossom speak of new desires and adventures, purring with a gentle animalic undertone, leaning into the oud and aromatic thyme, giving a new textured woodiness. A gentle leather accord forms, feeling dry from the warmth of the bran, yet gentle as the powdery dusty suede’s sensual nap moves softly, caressing your skin. A buttery feel emerges as the oud edges further forward.

Vanilla planifolia and wheat bran via Wikipedia.

As the perfume’s journey ends, a soft powdery richness lingers on your skin, with cashmeran’s flowing trail like it’s in a breeze as a powdery chocolate woody vanilla wraps around you like a gentle warm layer. Myrrh and a soft yet rich oud purrs with a gentle balsamic quiet intensity. It just injects this beautiful balsamic resinous amber warming the iris leather facet, as the aromatic aroma still haunting the edges with a floral softness. A gentle reminder of where this journey began all fresh and bright as light fades, but its roots are still there. Electimuss Spice D’Arno is my kind of vanilla, with that stunning bran note and gentle leather feel, it’s my Roman Empire and one of my favourites releases of the year so far. The closest thing I could compare it to is Andy Tauer’s L’Air Du Desert Morocain, but Electimuss Spice D’Arno smells unique, especially with the bran note there’s more of dessert than desert in Spice D’Arno, while not being totally gourmand. It’s a vanilla for those who don’t want to smell like a cake, but enjoy all those woody gourmand facets and has a quiet toughness that flows all day. The oud seems to stay back as the vanilla merges with the bran forming this soft musky chocolate woody haze with a darkly sweet whisper of balsamic resins bubbling quietly with a soft warm spice.

Electimuss Spice D’Arno’s bran and vanilla combination is delicious but it’s the softly sensual florals and gently tough leather and woody oud that make it feel special. It’s also the clever flow of the cardamom, iris to vanilla too, this gives it movement as it dries down.

Notes: Pink pepper (LMR), bergamot, lemon, cardamom (LMR), elemi, leather, bran absolute (LMR), cistus absolute (LMR), thyme, iris, orange flower, Oud, vanilla (LMR), myrrh, cashmeran

Disclosure: Electimuss Spice D’Arno was sent to J, his thoughts and nose are his own.

-Senior Editor J Wearescentient, artist & olfactive writer

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