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Lately, when I pick my perfume for the day, I’ve been choosing comfort scents that soothe me just enough to get some necessary work done but not so much that I want to cocoon myself in bed. Over the past two weeks I’ve kept returning to two particular fragrances that fit that description, and both happen to be inspired by beverages: Sunday from Arielle Shoshana<\/a> and Hot Masala by\u00a0Dawn Spencer Hurwitz<\/a>.1<\/sup><\/p>\n Arielle Shoshana Sunday is a “sweet, green, undefinable” scent promising\u00a0“Sunday serenity, any day of the week.” It was inspired by Ari’s favorite Sunday-morning beverage, matcha horchata, and was developed by perfumer C\u00e9cile Hua. It includes notes of matcha tea, rice milk, cinnamon, mat\u00e9 absolute, cardamom, coconut, amber, sandalwood and vanilla.<\/p>\n I’ve tasted matcha (a beverage made from Japanese powdered green tea) and horchata (a drink of sweetened rice milk with cinnamon) separately, but not together, so I wasn’t sure how I’d feel about Sunday. My verdict: it’s delightful. Sunday dawns like toasty-sweet puffed rice on my skin. Its “green” notes hover like steam over the rest of the composition, which is more milky-spicy (but light on the cinnamon, which relieved me!) and then dries down into a cozy sandalwood with nutty and vanillic accents.\u00a0<\/p>\n Sunday doesn’t read specifically as “tea,” nor as “gourmand,” although it incorporates both ideas into its final impression. Robin enjoyed Saturday<\/a>, Arielle Shoshana’s debut fragrance, and I’d recommend Sunday to her as well. It might even qualify as a “wood pudding\u2122<\/a>,” her favorite fragrance sub-genre \u2014 “spicy and creamy, and comforting.” I hope she’ll give it a try, if she hasn’t already!<\/p>\n I recently caught myself wondering, “Will any independent perfumers respond to our current situation through their work?” Yes! Dawn Spencer Hurwitz writes, “Many times in the past, as a visual artist, I have begun series of drawings as a form of confronting\/contending with difficult emotions and situations in order to find a healing space. In the time of COVID-19, I have felt this same need arise: to create a series of work based on things found around my home.”<\/p>\n One of Dawn’s “Isolation\/Meditation” scents derived from those drawings is Tea and Charcoal; another is Hot Masala. I like both, but Hot Masala is the one I keep craving right now. It\u00a0combines a “golden milk accord” with a “mix” of jasmines, resins, and spices; other\u00a0specific notes include ambrette seed, sandalwood, butter C02, champaca leaf, coconut pulp, frankincense, galub attar, green cardamom, myrrh, opopanax, benzoin and white pepper.\u00a0<\/p>\n That reads like a lot<\/em>, but Hot Masala smells smooth and compact, and does not<\/em> remind me of a bag of spicy Indian snacks<\/a>! It starts off like a very buttery jasmine on my skin, and then the spices filter through the creaminess. I’m noticing cardamom, turmeric and soft white pepper, with the blend of resins giving everything else a base to rest on.\u00a0Despite its creamy aspect, Hot Masala never turns dessert-like; even with that bouquet of spices, it feels soothing rather than invigorating.\u00a0<\/p>\n Hot Masala is an all-natural perfume and, as such, has good staying power on me. I’m still noticing a subtle layer of milky woods on my wrist up to five hours after applying it…and then I’m looking forward to “refreshing” it.<\/p>\n Perfume has been giving me even more pleasure than usual lately, despite (and\/or because of) my jangled nerves. I wish we could all share a soothing drink together, and I wish I could come up with an appropriate toast for us to exchange \u2014 not “cheers!” but something a little less celebratory and more restorative. If you have an idea for that toast, please share it below! And, as always, take good care of yourselves.<\/p>\n Arielle Shoshana Sunday is available as 10 ml ($26) or 50 ml ($125) Eau de Parfum at the Arielle Shoshana website<\/a>. Dawn Spencer Hurwitz Hot Masala is available in various sizes and formulations, including 10 ml ($58) and 30 ml ($125) Eau de Parfum at the DSH Perfumes website<\/a>. Samples of both are also available at their respective websites.<\/p>\n 1. Ari, proprietor of Arielle Shoshana, and I became friends through fragrance circles when she was living in NYC, but I purchased my own sample of Sunday out of curiosity. Dawn and I have become friends through social media and email over the period of many years (and multiple purchases). As Robin would say, I know them both well enough to warrant a disclaimer: if I had hated their fragrances, I probably just wouldn’t have said anything.<\/p>\n Read the rest of this article »<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lately, when I pick my perfume for the day, I’ve been choosing comfort scents that soothe me just enough to get some necessary work done but not so much that I want to cocoon myself in bed. 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