At its best in Fall and Winter — worn day or night.
Tambour Sacre by Rubini is a fragrance for women and men. Tambour Sacre was launched in 2018. The nose behind this fragrance is Cristiano Canali. Top notes are Cardamom, Orange, White Pepper and Bergamot; middle notes are Coffee, Tuberose, Acácia and Cinnamon; base notes are Sandalwood, Myrrh, Benzoin and Tonka Bean. Like music, perfume is an art of time: sounds as well as smells come to us to invade us and disappear. As the airplane takes off, looking through the window the eye gets lots in the horizon where the blue kiss the ochre red: here perfumes and sounds from this land pervade us again, so intense they silence the droning engines. Like the primal frequency of the universe, their vibration expands in a circular wave from within. Pulsing like the smell of spices and smoke, the roll of sacred drums in Ethiopia is related to every ritual, from religious ceremonies to every day’s gesture. Down the Omo River Valley, the flow of time and senses is marked by these arcane woods. Like a music playing the chords of soul, invisible yet obsessive, the life in the Horn of Africa dances with the ebony bodies painted in ochre and clay, it sparkles in the eyes of its women as intense as tuberoses left in a closed room, and gives shelter to the traveller in its villages with the best hospitality customs. Like an astonishing evocative symphony, Tambour Sacré translates the sensual yet mystic impetus of African rhythms. Cristiano Canali gives his interpretation of this sound with the facets of Calabrian bergamot and cardamom vibrating thanks to the spiciness of white pepper in a dance as charming as a warm embrace. The obscure notes of roasted coffee hammer over a candid pentagram of tuberoses in a primordial, almost erotic counterpoint, growing measure after measure with the intoxicating warmth of cinnamon. The orchestral carpet of sandalwood and balsams add volume; the spiritual depth of myrrh from Somalia with its iridescent vapors and the sumptuousness of benzoin joined by tonka bean resonate in a gourmand oriental charming like the enigmas of the Queen of Sheba.
