Aging flacons in umber-hued tones, strangely brown orchids, coffee blossom and dry jasmine buds scattered among faded citrus peels.
A deeply brown floral perfume for modern amateurs dressed in oversized velvet jackets with sharp peak lapels and leopard-print pantsuits, sipping martinis in a friend-of-a-friend’s glasshouse just outside the city.
Have you met their eccentric childhood friend with polka-dot headbands? She’s taken over the guest cottage, wildly experimenting with dried flowers and herbs. Her desk is strewn with plant fragments, dusty bottles of extracts and vases filled with bizarre orchids from “the best little shop” in Chinatown.
Her collection of antique herbals reveals absurd recipes for tussie-mussies, pomanders, herbal vinegars and primitive perfumes. Her latest creation is “utterly irresistible” — composed of “exquisite” floral extracts, her own distillations and a musk she “can only source in Europe.”
It’s chic. It’s muted. It’s exactly what her entire circle in the city is wearing right now.
You do want to try it too, don’t you?
Edp 50 ml (2025)
Perfumer: David Moltz
