Hima Jomo Loon is still one of my favourite perfume discoveries of the year. On the back of my bottle (and on the website, if you happen to check it out), there are coordinates. I missed them originally but then saw them as I was looking at the pretty bottle in my hand. I put them into maps and saw that they’re the coordinates for the Kewra Salt Mines in Pakistan. Now, I can visualize the area that the Hima Jomo people had in mind when they created Loon. Maybe it’s a romanticization of a concept, but I’ll take it, it’s a nice touch. ⠀⠀
Loon, again, means salt in Punjabi and the scent is inspired by Pink Himalayan Salt. There’s a salt-like accord that runs through the scent from beginning to end. It opens with Cypress which gives it an almost minty freshness. The rose accord is tart, not exactly lush and opulent, almost hinting at the barrenness of the place. Vetiver and cedar in the drydown are cooling and the feeling I get throughout wearing this scent is that of a cool wind in the summer – kind of what you feel when you go to the mountains in the summertime. They’re significantly cooler than the cities, and refreshing. The air is reviving, and that feeling is captured in Loon but combined with a mineral feel that brings you back to the land.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
While I like the contrast of the two, they also go so well together because you can’t have one without the other. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
