Huacaya by Graham & Pott

The Huacaya fragrance by the British manufacturer Graham & Pott is dedicated to the smell of wool of the small, round-bottomed huacaya alpaca, which lives on the high-mountain plateau of Altiplano in the heart of the Andes.

Huacayas breathe thin air, rarely see rain and, as the Encyclopedia Britannica writes, grow only 30 centimeters of very valuable, unusually thin curly wool in two years.

I have never seen alpacas in the wild, but I love the cozy animal warmth of wool and its ability to accumulate and refract odors from the outside. One way to recognize and “tame” perfume is to apply it to a scarf, for example.

Huacaya perfume smells like a stranger's scarf. The gray fluffy canvas is caught by the fog of an autumn forest, frost on a red rowan tree, the smell of rotten leaves, stubble on the neck and warm milk. Alarmed, at first alien, then surprisingly familiar and attractive smell. A love story at first breath.

The leading theme in Huacaya is oud with its bestial, dirty spirit, gradually losing its animal essence. Its wildness is warmed with tenderness, and it gratefully thaws, merging with the musky body heat.

Huacay was released in the concentration of "perfume", which means you need to wait for the aroma to open up on the skin. In your head, the complex melody of cashmeran, oud, soapy pink berries, vanilla and spices also does not fit right away. Give it time.

Huacaya Graham & Pott, 2021

Saffron, cinnamon, dew, raspberry, wood, heliotrope, musk, oud, powder.

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