{"id":24564,"date":"2022-06-27T02:54:29","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T22:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/?post_type=articles&p=216621"},"modified":"2022-06-27T02:54:29","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T22:54:29","slug":"costa-brazil-aroma-fragrance-review","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/me\/articles\/costa-brazil-aroma-fragrance-review\/","title":{"rendered":"This Resin-Inspired Fragrance Has To Be the Most Unique Scent I\u2019ve Ever Experienced"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let the record show I have smelt, worn and owned many fragrances over the years. From iconic scents such as Chanel No. 5 to little-known olfactives like A.N. Other Fragrance,<\/a> my experience with perfume is extensive to say the least.<\/p>\n

I have a handful of firm favourites (Frederic Malle’s Music For A While<\/a>, Hermes Jour de Hermes<\/a> and Maison Christian Dior’s Bois D’Argent<\/a> among them) but like any obliging beauty editor I am very open to what’s new.<\/p>\n

Costa Brazil’s breakout fragrance is one that piqued my interest early on because the brand’s Firming Body Oil<\/a> is one of the best I’ve ever used. Called Aroma, the genderless scent is described as a “deeply personal, aromatic woody eau de parfum” inspired by “natural resin that grows in the Amazon”.<\/p>\n

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Composition-wise, it’s anything but ordinary, with notes of so-called white jungle flora, nutmeg oil, geranium bourbon, cypriol and plant-based musks.<\/p>\n

This definitely speaks to the non-traditional-ness of it, but even in my years of writing about niche fragrance, I’ve never smelled anything quite so unique. The best way I can explain it is as if it’s missing a top note, and immediately opens up into a woody, spicy, developed type of smell, as if it’s been warming on skin for hours. It’s rich and evocative but somehow remains buoyant, as if it was distilled from a natural setting, and not created in a lab.<\/p>\n

Francisco Costa, who founded the brand after spending six months deep in the Amazon rainforest following his famous tenure at Calvin Klein, based Aroma off breu, a fragrant resin that comes from the Almacega tree. Sticky and smoky and dense, it’s a unique smell that’t nothing like your standard raw material, lending itself to an anti-fragrance fragrance that’s complex but delicious to wear. If I had to describe it in three words, I’d say sexy, rich and organic.<\/p>\n

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The scent itself is only usurped by the wooden flacon, a refillable cube that slides apart like a jigsaw puzzle. It’s also packed with organic plant compounds that are said to reduce stress (i’ll take it), and it’s made on an organic ethanol base.<\/p>\n

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Aroma launches into Mecca in July (linked below) but for those eager beavers it it shoppable via the brand’s website<\/a>. Buy it, love it, receive countless compliments!<\/p>\n

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Costa Brazil Aroma Jungle, $296.<\/span> AVAILABLE VIA MECCA FROM 26TH JULY<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5526,"featured_media":24567,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[47,35],"yoast_head":"\nReview: Costa Brazil Aroma Genderless Fragrance<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Review: Costa Brazil Aroma Genderless Fragrance. 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