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The Rock Hyrax (Procavia capensis) is a small and vocal mammal, native to Africa and the Middle East, whose closest living relatives are elephants and manatees.
They live wild in their colonies, using communal latrines generations in the making, inside deep crevices protected by the rock. Deposited here again and again, rich urine and feces first dries, then hardens, later petrifies and, centuries thereafter, finally fossilizes.
In time, the site abandoned, the colony moved along, collectors will come to mine the fossil from the rock. Raw harvest of this “Africa Stone,” in order to yield a workable material for the perfumer’s natural palette, then undergoes some method of extraction, whether it be with solvents (to produce an absolute), or macerated in alcohol (to create the kind of tincture one might expect from an apothecary).
The product as a result is, at first, overwhelming. It’s all tarred leather, scorched earth, and merciless, but it does—somehow alchemically—transform for hours on the skin to reveal such heated seduction as nothing before nor since. Fine tobacco facets and raw-dark-honeyed richness is its enticing signature.
Here is a natural musk which commands desire, the sexes. It is power, turns to gold. Most importantly, it is ethical. Vive la “Awawa!”
To Preorder this product now is to secure your bottle of an as yet unreleased Readymade built around this breathtaking Hyraceum Absolute. Coming soon.
The Rock Hyrax (Procavia capensis) is a small and vocal mammal, native to Africa and the Middle East, whose closest living relatives are elephants and manatees.
They live wild in their colonies, using communal latrines generations in the making, inside deep crevices protected by the rock. Deposited here again and again, rich urine and feces first dries, then hardens, later petrifies and, centuries thereafter, finally fossilizes.
In time, the site abandoned, the colony moved along, collectors will come to mine the fossil from the rock. Raw harvest of this “Africa Stone,” in order to yield a workable material for the perfumer’s natural palette, then undergoes some method of extraction, whether it be with solvents (to produce an absolute), or macerated in alcohol (to create the kind of tincture one might expect from an apothecary).
The product as a result is, at first, overwhelming. It’s all tarred leather, scorched earth, and merciless, but it does—somehow alchemically—transform for hours on the skin to reveal such heated seduction as nothing before nor since. Fine tobacco facets and raw-dark-honeyed richness is its enticing signature.
Here is a natural musk which commands desire, the sexes. It is power, turns to gold. Most importantly, it is ethical. Vive la “Awawa!”
To Preorder this product now is to secure your bottle of an as yet unreleased Readymade built around this breathtaking Hyraceum Absolute. Coming soon.