Aurum

This fragrance has similar facets to “new look 2024” and “cardinal”. That being said it is very much a church incense fragrance, colder in nature and leaning towards the aldehydes to give it lift and a cold airy nature. It has a very clean touch to it, as if you are walking into a long empty church where the incense has not been burned in a while yet the stone and wood is so infused with the mass’s of the past that it sticks to the place and you still catch whiffs of it amidst the stone. I’d also check out “incenso delle chiese di Roma” by the same perfumer. That’s a photorealistic Catholic Church incense fragrance. If you are visiting Rome be sure to check out this perfumer located at Santa Maria Magorre as it’s a beautiful building.

This is the Orthodox Church in a bottle. Cold old stone, musty air, and smoke from beeswax candles. More like a childhood memory of visiting churches in Russia, I cant't really imagine a place to wear it to. But feels very appropriate for an all-night Easter vigil, Chirstmas caroling in the frost and maybe visiting Balcan monasteries.