For millennia, wine has been stored in oak barrels: to vary the color and concentrate the flavor, to augment the texture. More intensely flavored than French oak, American oak imparts sweeter notes of vanilla and caramel alongside smoke and spice.
For the fifth addition to the Raw Spirit fragrance collection, master perfumer Harry Fremont has created the fragrance equivalent of a professional cooper’s workshop where the smell of staved oak casks and buckets and barrels commingles with the musky scent of human endeavor.
“Oak dots the landscape of California – from the hills of LA to the vineyards up north,” says Fremont. “I wanted to combine the strong smell of winter oak with spices and leather notes to give it a Western feel.”
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Imagine a winter’s eve, a leather-aproned cooper working by candlelight, the air fragranced with cedar chips and earthen floors. Like a favorite suede coat that retains the odor of toasty nights in front of fire pits, Winter Oak evokes the romance of winter. A lingering hint of Haitian vetiver grounds the fragrance with a calming note, not unlike an elegant earthy mate tea.
A unisex fragrance, Winter Oak is the fifth fragrance in a proposed collection of ten, all of which are intended to assist in an increased awareness of indigenous ingredients and cultures. A subsidiary of the Nomad Two Worlds company, the Raw Spirit fragrance collection was created in collaboration with Firmenich alongside a commitment that both companies have made to the Clinton Global Initiative.
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From its inception, Nomad Two Worlds has worked closely with fashion photographers and Australian indigenous artists, as well as Haitian and Native America artists, in order to heighten awareness of the world’s most threatened cultures and communities. As a socially responsible company, the Australian brand Nomad Two Worlds adheres to a mission to work with indigenous artists in order to foster the creation of culturally relevant art and consumer products that enable long-term economic benefits to marginalized communities. Inspired by indigenous ingredients from the partnership countries, the Raw Spirit fragrance collection derives inspiration for its fragrances from the various cultures.
Packaged in a suede-toned presentation box, Raw Spirit Winter Oak is offered in an atomizer, as well as an eau de parfum rollerball that makes it perfect for travel. A portion of all sales of Raw Spirit Winter Oak will support the Chumash Indian Museum in Thousand Oaks, California.
