Rûh (Pekji)****

Ömer Ipekçi is an artisan perfumer working in Turkey whose work was recommended to me by Franco Wright at Luckyscent. At my request OI sent me five samples of his Pekji fragrances. My favorite is Rûh (soul, in Arabic). It is a beautiful accord of rose, coffee and cardamom that brilliantly conjugates three orthogonal senses of the word fresh embodied by those three materials: dewy rose petals, freshly brewed, and cool in the mouth. It is, quite simply, lovely and apt to put one in a very good mood. I have only one complaint: this feels like an EDT. In light of the type of composition and the price, it really should be an extrait.