ICP｜Ares

Ares

Citrus Musk

Top Notes: Lavender, Orange Blossom, Bergamot, Cardamom, Italian Blood Orange
Heart Notes: Cinnamon, Clove, Violet, Iris, Osmanthus
Base Notes: Musk, Vanilla, Tonka Bean, Amber, Sandalwood, Patchouli, Guaiac Wood

Description:

That single step a person still steps forward after the horn sounds.

I didn't want to make "Ode to the God of War" about blood, iron, and slaughter, because what truly interests me are the few minutes before the war begins. The sky has not yet fully brightened. Soldiers adjust their armor, checking the weapons in their hands one last time. No one speaks. The lingering chill of the early morning remains. Then, the horn blows.

What stays with me most about the end of the battlefield is that inside the armor, there is ultimately only a person who is afraid. Therefore, this is not a song glorifying the greatness of the god of war. It celebrates those who, even with trembling hands, even not knowing if they will ever return, still choose to step forward when the horn sounds once more.

ARES: Ode to the God of War

I feel it is dedicated to those forerunners who marched wave after wave, their footsteps never stopping.

ICP — Imagine Creating Perfume

If a story could be smelled, what would it scent like? Perhaps the damp stone walls of a city after rain, the unpainted wind within a painting, the lingering resonance hanging in the air after a piece of music ends, or perhaps a memory that suddenly resurfaces years later. These fleeting, unpreservable moments became the genesis of ICP's creation.

We are a perfume house centred around imagination, acting much like a travelling author, wandering between cities, art, culture, music, architecture, and literature, bringing back the stories and emotions encountered along the way, and rewriting them through scent.

Thus, we rarely just ask: "What does this perfume smell like, and what are its notes?" Instead, we want to know: "What does it make you think of?"

Because we believe that what truly completes a perfume is not just the perfumer, but also the person who happens to catch its scent. The exact same fragrance might remind someone of a city they have never visited, prompt another to recall someone they haven't seen in a long time, or allow someone to catch a glimpse of another side of themselves within it.

And so, perfume is no longer just perfume; It begins to hold a story.

If you were to imagine ICP as a place, we hope it resembles a library of scents, where every fragrance is a book waiting to be opened. Some are written about travel, some collect myths, some originate from paintings, music, and history, while others record emotions so elusive even we struggle to put them into words. And what we do is simply write the very first page using scent. The rest of the story is left for your imagination to complete.

In the future, ICP will continue to walk among different countries and cultures, To feel, to explore, and to leave behind our own olfactory footprints. Because there are still too many stories in this world Waiting to be smelled.

Perfume is made complete by imagination.

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