Ayala Moriel has launched Vetiver Racinettes, her "signature" vetiver fragrance:
Vetiver Racinettes is at once earthy, sweet and cool like the aromatic roots and rootlets brewed to a bubbly rootbeer. Vetiver Racinettes brings earth’s duality: embracing and playful.
It has the warmth of earth and firey spices and at the same time - the coolness of clay and vetiver curtains sprinkled with water; the medicinal dryness of herbs and grasses and the luxurious tenacity of woods; the sweetness of tarragon and earth with the bitterness of coffee and mud.
The fragrance notes include black pepper, fresh ginger, cardamom, kaffir lime leaf, Haitian vetiver, nutmeg, coffee, spikenard, ruh khus, Indonesian vetiver, vetiver bourbon, attar mitti, tarragon and cepes.
Ayala Moriel Vetiver Racinettes is available in travel-sized Parfum Extrait roll on, Creme Parfum pendant, Perfume Oil roll on or in 8 ml Parfum Extrait flacon. Samples are available.
The line has also introduced its first candle: a soy wax candle in the ArbitRary fragrance. (via ayalamoriel)
Other recent launches from Ayala Moriel: Gigi, Gaucho & Incarnation
Hmm, I'd be interested in sniffing this one. I wonder if it'll smell particularily dry and “dusty”…
Man, you get started early!
This sounds interesting; I could easily see if going offensive, though. Don't really know enough about the line to make a guess.
Aw, the bottle is adorably minimal. You could keep that on a shelf once you're done with the perfume. =3
What do you mean? It's mid morning here & I'm just barely awake, LOL…
Agree on the bottles, they're nicely done. Looking forward to trying this one, it sounds nice 'n dirty.
Yes, me too!
I have to try this one, hope it's both dry and dirty, and the bottle is adorable! It could double as a cute bud vase too!
Cepes? That's 'shrooms, baby! Could be gorgeous, could be a bit. . .fungal. Fascinating stuff, though.
Talk about the antithesis of fruity-floral.
We're all on the same “dry & dirty” wavelength, looks like
Fungal would be just fine w/ me
Oh, you must live more east than me; it was early for me. xP
I had no idea about Cepes, I am intrigued! Must… try….
Sounds wonderful. I like the bottle, also. Is it frosted?
Good, then you'll always be impressed by my productive early morning hours
Yep! In the extrait only though.
This sounds so intriguing… lots of notes I like in there!
Generally speaking, I find Ayala's scents inspired, complex, and daring in composition. Some of them are drop-dead gorgeous — really like Espionage, Épices Sauvages, Finjan, and Immortelle l'Amour. But they seem to last all of 10 minutes on my skin. Maybe it's a smidge unfair to compare natural scents to synthetics — longevity is *not* comparable — but when you consider spending $110 for an 8ml bottle of a scent that leaves you before you leave the house in the morning… well, I have a hard time swallowing that.
I've only tried the extraits, though. Has anyone tried her solid perfumes? Or perhaps using a scent locket rather than applying to skin?
It is not fair or unfair — just true: naturals cost more, but don't generally last as long as synthetics, that's just the way it is, and you have to decide what matters more to you, lasting power, or having a natural formula.
I have not tried the solids, sorry!
That Bottle…. Did Someone Say Halston For Women?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
If it were only Halston Couture….. god I loved that fragrance.