The MECCA view

Powdery & Musky, this is a northeastern fragrance. Scents with a view on a dramatic setting. Picture the ascent to Koronos — the windswept ridges, the vineyards perched high at 540 metres, narrow stony alleys that thread through seven ancient villages, and the hush of dawn-lit slopes.

This fragrance by The Naxos Apothecary evokes that very sense of place: bold, elevated and quietly elegant.

It opens on crisp pomelo zest, the warming bite of ginger and the sacred hush of incense, lending a cool yet luminous start. At its heart there’s the soft powdery elegance of orange flower intertwined with the dry-rooted refinement of orris, settling into a base of rich benzoin and resinous fir balsam — powdery, musky and deeply grounded.