Description
“I based my composition Aalacho N° 1 on Nathan’s brief more than on the ingredients listed. When I realized that he was deluded by the fragrance he had received, I just made it again without any liberty, exactly with the accord and the ingredients he had asked me in the first place and sent it to him free. He loved it.”
Hirsh Duckfinder Review on Basenotes
Angelica, Cardamom, Castoreum, Cedar, Costus, Frankincense, Honeybee, Labdanum, Mysore Sandalwood, Oakmoss, Opoponax, Patchouli, Styrax, Tobacco, Tonka, Vetyver
“VERY resinous, smoky, dark, incense and coniferous wood with a deep underlying sweetness. The green is much more buried under spikier foliage here than in Aalacho 1. The leaves and vegetation are there but smell more bitter brown than green, a little charred like the remnants of a forest fire a few years past. This is more macho, almost fierce, but the honeyed wood underneath it all speaks of the softer side of the bears in the trees. It eases a little as it develops with well-blended tobacco linking the animalic with the leafy and herbal aspects.
Very long-lasting for a natural. It has a significant animalic component in its base (honey, tobacco, castoreum, moss), interestingly it underlines the animalic components of some vegetable sourced material and blends with the lightly sweet woods for a fantastic forest accord.”
Nathan Branch on Basenotes
“It’s like discovering a crumbling gingerbread house in a deep pine forest surrounded by wolves. Exactly what I wanted.”
Aalacho, the story behind: Nathan Branch ordered me a custom perfume, giving me this brief:
Discussion and reviews about the fragrance Aalacho are found at:
https://naturalnicheperfume.com/scents-of-the-soul-nathan-branch-review/
https://naturalnicheperfume.com/nathan-branch-aalacho-review/
“I appreciate bold statements that stand out from the crowd, and I love dry, woody orientals with incense smoke. I’m not a fan of vanilla or heavily sweetened fragrances — I rarely eat dessert and prefer coffee, instead, but I do appreciate a mellow sweetness. I do not purchase floral fragrances and tend to avoid perfumes with flowers and/or fruits, including citrus. I like dark earthy musks, the smell of burning leaves and woods (we used to burn cherry wood in the fireplace when I was a child), mossy forests, raw honey, salt, black leather.”
Photo courtesy Nathan Branch
Can777 –
I wonder what it’s like…
The scent of wild and pristine nature absorbed with the senses of a wolf. So for me Aalacho N° 2 is unbridled and full of familiar and original impressions.
A flood of notes and smells that overwhelm you on first contact. A hunt through the deepest forests and barren steppes. Juicy moss and deep soil to smell, bitter cardamom, spicy-sweet nuances from Honey, vetiver, tobacco, leaves, cedar woods, campfire, ashes and resins from Labdanum and incense.
A fragrance that overwhelms you with its earthiness, free, irrepressible and uncompromising! Aalacho N° 2 is a natural fragrance through and through and could in my opinion also come from April Aromatics, as it reminds me of Calling all Angels in its multitude of impressions. But it could also be a not quite so tame work by Annette Neuffer.
As far as the League of Natural Fragrances is concerned, in my opinion La Via del Profumo is also very high after the third test. A label which is highly recommended!
What is it like to be a wolf?
I don’t know, but after Aalacho N° 2 I can imagine!
First seen on https://www.parfumo.net/Perfumes/La_Via_del_Profumo/Aalacho_N_2
William Cummings –
I am discovering that more woody and resinous fragrances are my obsession when favoring a scent.
Just smelled AALACHO N*2 for the first time and I am hopelessly in love with it. it is the most unusual perfume that I have ever encountered and it’s subtle presence and hypnotic allure is fascinating and without contempt for those who will enjoy it’s influence.
Bravo!! AbdesSalaam for heaven on earth.