How does Maison Asrar Icon smell?
Apple provides a crisp, juicy first impression, cardamom adds a bright, slightly camphor-like spice, and clary sage brings a herbal, faintly sweet aromatic tone. The heart is built on aquatic accords, which stand for a watery, clean-air freshness rather than an actual ingredient, with jasmine and lily of the valley adding a soft, clean floral layer. Going by the list, the front half is brisk and watery, with a lightly spiced, leafy edge.
Amber, cedarwood and leather make the base. Amber is a resinous, warm, slightly sweet accord, cedarwood adds dry pencil-shaving wood, and leather brings a smooth, slightly smoky, supple note. Together they ground the watery heart with something dry and warm. You can expect a fresh marine opening that gradually turns drier and woodier, with the leather as a quiet undertone rather than the main subject.
What Maison Asrar's own page says about Icon
Maison Asrar's product page for Icon gives its family as fougere and marine.
It also puts words of its own on one of the notes: cardamom (spicy, warm, elegant).
Who might like Maison Asrar Icon?
Icon is for someone who likes a crisp apple-and-water freshness but wants some dry wood and a hint of leather beneath it so that it does not feel thin. Other marine and fougere lines from Maison Asrar with a woody base are the closest comparisons in terms of notes.
Icon and the rest of the Maison Asrar range
Maison Asrar Masterpiece shares apple, cardamom and cedarwood with Icon. Where Icon has clary sage, jasmine, lily of the valley and amber, it lists clove, cinnamon, geranium and lavender.
Both list jasmine, lily of the valley and leather. Maison Asrar Omniya goes on with ozonic, freesia, orris and ambergris; Icon with apple, cardamom, clary sage and amber.
Maison Asrar Throne Eclipse shares apple, cardamom and cedarwood with Icon. Where Icon has clary sage, jasmine, lily of the valley and amber, it lists clove, cinnamon, geranium and lavender.
Where to buy Maison Asrar Icon in Europe
Maison Asrar Icon is not in the FragranceGems range at the moment; the shop's Maison Asrar page shows what is available. Among the scents the shop sells, Maison Asrar III Thriller shares cardamom, clary sage and amber with it and Maison Asrar Ameer shares cardamom, lily of the valley and cedarwood with it.
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