Brand: Alkemia
Scent Description:
The center of our universe is raspberries and rum?
In a vast dust cloud at the center of the Milky Way there is an abundance of ethyl formate, a simple aliphatic ester found in the smell of rum and raspberries. To these elements, we’ve added notes from astronauts’ descriptions of the smell of their suits when they return from space walks – freshly welded metal, gun powder, seared steak in an iron pan, burnt almond cookies, charcoal, and ozone.
“Just where that star above
Shines with a cold, dispassionate smile —
If in the flesh I’d travel there,
How many, many a mile!
If this, my soul, should be
Unprisoned from its earthly bond,
Time could not count its markless flight
Beyond that star, beyond!”
– William Stanley Braithwaite, 1908
This is such a delicious scent. The rum and raspberry notes are the stars of the show, but you can make out the metal in the distance.