A salted caramel, and it is the salt that makes it interesting — announced in the first note and taken up again in the base.
— The opening is the most original part: sea salt, lemon, pink pepper. Mineral and citrus where you expected sugar. It is pleasantly disorienting.
— The heart carries on in the marine register: jasmine, seaweed, bay leaf. Seaweed is a rare material in perfumery — it smells of iodine, of the beach at low tide, of damp mineral. The bay leaf adds a green, aromatic note, almost culinary.
— And it is only in the base that the dessert arrives: caramel, brown sugar, cedar, and the salt again. That is when you understand the construction: the fragrance moves from the beach to the kitchen, and the salt is the thread that links the two.
Who it is for: someone who likes gourmands but finds they lack an idea. This one has one.
Spring, summer, daytime. Average longevity, moderate projection.
The notes
Top — Sea salt, lemon, pink pepper
Heart — Jasmine, seaweed, bay leaf
Base — Caramel, salt, brown sugar, cedar
Olfactive family
Marine and chypre
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Whisky, announced in the first note and held to the end. It is one of the few fragrances in the catalogue built on that accord.
— Bourbon whisky in perfumery is a warm, sweet, lightly smoky note — the smell of oak and burnt sugar. Paired with orange blossom, it opens on something rich and a little syrupy, but never cloying.
— The heart goes off in another direction: incense, pepper, aldehydes. The incense brings dry, smoky resin, the pepper the bite, and the aldehydes that soapy, slightly metallic sparkle of the great classic fragrances. It is an austere heart after a gourmand opening, and the contrast works.
— The base returns to warmth: brown sugar, leather, and woods the house does not specify. Leather and brown sugar together give that impression of warm leather and a quiet lounge.
Who it is for: someone looking for a fragrance with a story.
Autumn, winter, evenings. Long wear, sustained projection.
The notes
Top — Bourbon whisky, orange blossom
Heart — Incense, pepper, aldehydes
Base — Brown sugar, leather, woody notes
Olfactive family
Leather and honey
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A spiced woody that ends in leather. And an incomplete pyramid that I am not going to fill in.
— The opening is the most spiced of the house: nutmeg, black pepper, saffron, with bergamot for a little clarity. The saffron lays down the leather-and-hay note from the first second — it announces the end of the fragrance before the heart even arrives.
— The heart is rich and resinous: iris, cedar, labdanum and gurjun balsam. Gurjun balsam is a resin from a South-East Asian tree that smells of damp wood, camphor and leather — a rare material, and it is what gives the bottle its character. The labdanum brings raw amber, a little animal.
— And the base announces a single material: leather. Let us be honest, that is suspicious — a base with one material practically does not exist. The sheet published by the manufacturer is probably truncated. I would rather tell you that than invent three notes to make it look good.
Autumn, winter, evenings. Long wear, sustained projection.
The notes
Top — Nutmeg, black pepper, bergamot, saffron
Heart — Iris, cedar, gurjun balsam, labdanum
Base — Leather
Olfactive family
Incense and resins
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