The dogged prospector strikes gold. Upon discovering a payload rich with nutrients, the scarab returns home. Face down, guided by the sun, it propels the tightly-packed dung backwards to a burrow lined with dusky spheres. Underground, it tunnels into the ball to deposit a precious egg. In time, the larva hatches and feeds, until it emerges, fully formed, and instinct drives it down the same dusty trail to repeat the cycle.

Like Egyptians entrusting sacred mummies to tombs for the journey to the next life, a scarab burying its treasure marks the dawn of new life. Zoologist Sacred Scarab captures the mystique of Kyphi incense, a blend of blue lotus, raisins, plums, olibanum, myrrh, and juniper. Once bound with wine and burned in ancient rituals, today this divine scent guides your spirit on a path to discovery and rebirth.

Perfumer: Sultan Pasha
Notes: Aldehydes, Lemon, Civet*, Wine Accord, Plum Accord, Blue Lotus Accord, Raisins, Olibanum, Myrrh, Galbanum, Cedar Wood, Juniper, Wine, Styrax, Benzoin, Oakmoss, Labdanum, Musk*, Amber

*Synthetic Notes. Zoologist Sacred Scarab does not use animal products.

Why you'll love it

At its core, “Sacred Scarab” is a stupefyingly beautiful, vintage-tinged, capital-P Perfume, with the exceedingly rare note of blue lotus creating an ambery, sun-dappled, breathtaking colour field of floral joy. Vineyard-fresh, lightly tannic grapes are crushed underfoot, their tart scent snapping us awake. Hazy resins and hyper-delicate powder notes soften the light until it’s almost drinkable. Soon, pastel-painted waves lap at a Pointilist shore teeming with purple & turquoise petals, echoing the intoxicating lotus theme. The romantic interlude concludes at sunset, with billowing incense, sun-dried fruit, and fossilized amber, all smooth as ancient eroded stone. "Sacred Scarab" is a fragrance for finding the spiritual in the large and small; the sweeping life cycles of nature, and the sentimental rhythms of the treasured everyday. Wear it as a contemporary statement scent, or as a nod to the swooning, romantic perfumes of an opulent bygone era.

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