Eau de Parfum · 17%
Hot Sand
Dry mineral heat with a thread of smoke.
£19.9930ml · £0.67/ml
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Suits you if
- Woody Cedar, vetiver and smoke. Dry, warm, close to the skin.
- 6–7 hours of wear
- Arm's length, in most rooms
How to wear it
- Spray onto pulse points — wrists, throat, chest
- Two sprays for a day, three for an evening
- Do not rub the wrists; it crushes the top notes
In the hand
Cold Iris 
Copper Rose 
Salt & Ozone 
Burnt Sugar 
Ember & Cedar
The pyramid
A fragrance is not one smell but three, arriving in sequence as the lighter materials evaporate off the heavier ones.
First 15 minutes
Top
- Dry mineral accord
- Cumin seed
- Pink pepper
Hours one to three
Heart
- Cistus
- Immortelle
- Dust accord
What remains
Base
- Amberwood
- Smoke
- Musk
Sillage
3/5
How far it carries
Longevity
4/5
How long it lasts
Wear time
6–7 hours
Perfumer
The AURYX studio
6–7 hours on skin, and not the same smell throughout. What you get in the shop is only the first fifteen minutes of it.
- 0-15 min
A dry mineral accord with cumin and pink pepper.
- 15 min - 3 hr
Cistus and immortelle over a genuine dust note.
- 3 hr +
Amberwood, smoke and musk. Radiant and flat.
“What we are rendering here is heat, not a place.”
Sand does not smell of much, which makes it a useful place to start. What we are really rendering here is heat — dry, radiant, faintly dusty, with a mineral flatness that most fragrances actively avoid. Cistus and a whisper of smoke keep it from disappearing altogether.
Composed by The AURYX studio
Best in
Hot, dry weather. It falls apart in damp cold.
Wear it when
You want something unusual for under twenty pounds.
Think twice if
Cumin worries you. There is a little, and it reads warm.
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