Mono No Aware is a 2024 release from niche perfume house Baruti and perfumer Spyros Drosopoulos. Baruti's fragrances are born of "Combining novelty with familiarity, our scents defy conventions, yet endear themselves to their surroundings. Rooted in the subconscious, each fragrance is designed to trigger the imagination and take you on a captivating olfactive journey." Mono No Aware has nutty green matcha and cherry blossom notes with powdery, green, floral, woody, fresh, and musky accords.
From Baruti:
"Mono No Aware is a key term in Japanese culture and loosely translated it means something like the appreciation of things/objects due to the realization of their impermanence. I first came across the term Mono No Aware in the autobiography of Sally Mann. The term immediately resonated with me, as for as long as I can remember I've had that feeling of happy/sad when on one hand there is the realization that all things exist only temporary and at the same time you feel so much at awe that you got to experience them. It's the ever-repeating circle of attachment and letting go. On a philosophical level I never particularly connected to terms like Memento Mori or Vanitas. The denouncing of the material word to me does not equal enlightening or liberation but mostly fear that I associate with numbness, indifference, and apathy. So, I was over the moon when I discovered Mono No Aware, finally a term that felt natural to me. Yes, loss brings sadness, but don't we say better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all, well, et voila! And on a perfume level, isn't the experience of perfume inherent to Mono No Aware, the moment you spray it, it starts to disappear, and that is part of the beauty of perfume. This perfume is ode to this feeling and to the culture that brought us the term."
Note: Samples are sold by the 1ml. You may purchase up to 2ml. Samples of 1ml or less will come in a glass vial with a dabber. Samples larger than 1ml will come in small glass spray bottles. All samples will be consolidated unless expressly requested otherwise.
Offered are samples and full bottles of Mono No Aware in the eau de parfum concentration.
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