Sorry for the obnoxious thread title. But what is equally obnoxious (ok, not obnoxious, but confusing at least!) is why Navegar doesn't really seem to get any love. I never see it mentioned when people are looking for summer scents, aquatics, or woody scents. I never really see it mentioned at all, in fact.
Maybe that's because Navegar is kind of an odd scent. It has the light weight and general transparency of many aquatics, but is in fact quite woody and peppery. It's not woody enough though to be mentioned alongside Hinoki or Tumulte or what have you. It's a hybrid scent that doesn't clearly fit into any category, and maybe that's why it gets little love (that and the fact that many have longevity issues with it. I find it lasts all day, but can lose the scent for long periods and think it is gone when it isn't.)
So why do I love Navegar and think it deserves more love here? Simply because it is evocative. Navegar really does call to mind the sailing on the ocean. No, this isn't sipping drinks on your yacht ala Erolfa, or those same drinks at the oceanside resort ala Virgin Island Water. This isn't some imagined paradise full of ripe melons ala Acqua di Gio. Navegar is the scent of an ancient trade ship loaded up with black gold; cedar barrels packed to the brim with peppercorns. Hints of the smooth and intoxicating scent of anise, the other spice on board, are also carried by the gentle breeze.
Navegar is the scent of standing on the deck of that ship, under an endless expanse of blue sky and surrounded by an equally endless expanse of blue waters. It's the scent of the salty sea spray that intermittently caresses your face as the ship cuts through the waves. There's a sense of space and a sense of.. freedom.
That's why I love Navegar.
Maybe that's because Navegar is kind of an odd scent. It has the light weight and general transparency of many aquatics, but is in fact quite woody and peppery. It's not woody enough though to be mentioned alongside Hinoki or Tumulte or what have you. It's a hybrid scent that doesn't clearly fit into any category, and maybe that's why it gets little love (that and the fact that many have longevity issues with it. I find it lasts all day, but can lose the scent for long periods and think it is gone when it isn't.)
So why do I love Navegar and think it deserves more love here? Simply because it is evocative. Navegar really does call to mind the sailing on the ocean. No, this isn't sipping drinks on your yacht ala Erolfa, or those same drinks at the oceanside resort ala Virgin Island Water. This isn't some imagined paradise full of ripe melons ala Acqua di Gio. Navegar is the scent of an ancient trade ship loaded up with black gold; cedar barrels packed to the brim with peppercorns. Hints of the smooth and intoxicating scent of anise, the other spice on board, are also carried by the gentle breeze.
Navegar is the scent of standing on the deck of that ship, under an endless expanse of blue sky and surrounded by an equally endless expanse of blue waters. It's the scent of the salty sea spray that intermittently caresses your face as the ship cuts through the waves. There's a sense of space and a sense of.. freedom.
That's why I love Navegar.
More to bring light to it.
For me, unfortunately, it is nothing special. No feelings of sailing on the ocean to me.
