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Urban Midwinter
...In search of innovative fragrance...

Cement and brick dulled even more at the edges in an urban winter

Sky turning almost metallic sometimes yellowed like tar by a struggling winter sun

Autumn leaves still impressed on tarmac rubber stamped by car tyres.

Winter in the city...

Exposed winter city trees survive having lost their cover now hesitant and shivering

whispering winters secrets to anyone that will care to listen

Sharp east winds' rasp at swaddled reddened skin

A city's decline...

It is quieter during the later months but the ghosts of summers' vibrancy still hang hopefully in the petrolled air.

Smoke and charcoal succeed at this time with mossy dampness and frozen moisture clinging on as winter lowlights

A wisp of first snow made slick on oily pavement

 

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1. Andrea Maak
2. Imaginary Authors
3. Charenton Macerations
4. Electimuss Parfum
5. Gorilla Perfumes

1. Coven

Andrea Maak

An oriental woody fragrance.

First released back in 2013, this is a sensual composition. Although Coven was developed to embody a dark woodland walk it seems, that there is also a modernity that can also encapsulate the mix of a city hermetically sealed by its green surroundings - the ancient Green Man that watches over us all wherever we are.

"As notes of soil tincture marry and mingle with the verdant greens of pine and green rhubarb. The final effect is stunning; simultaneously lush whilst sultry and brooding, with a strong sillage that increases in richness and complexity as time wears on."

www.roullierwhite.com

2.   A City On Fire

A spicy, smoky composition, A striking composition that stands out from the crowd. With an array of unusual and compelling notes, it manages to be at once refined and sophisticated whilst simultaneously passionate, carnal, and mysterious. A scent with excellent projection and a long life, A City On Fire is perfect for a winter’s evening event or crisp autumnal days.

Top:Cade Oil, Spikenard, Cardamom Middle:Clearwood, Dark Berries Base: Labdanum, Burnt Match

www.imaginaryauthors.com www.roullierwhite.com

3.   Asphalt Rainbow

"Asphalt Rainbow borrows from a series of masterful street art techniques to craft an olfactive love letter to the street: a roughed up rose that’s been hyper-colored, torn apart and twisted on its head, then nailed to the wall for your sniffing pleasure. The arc of the fragrance mirrors the unpredictable lifecycle of street art: a re-envisioned rose accord that distorts and morphs over time like a fragmented floral collage stretched across urban walls and alleyways; its aerosol-tinged aroma ever-fading closer to background."

Asphalt Rainbow is crafted in collaboration with perfumer Cecile Hua of Mane USA. Additional support provided by performer Careena Melia, and an ever-growing adopted family of bombers, buskers, and writers scattered across the globe. It is dedicated to their (and our) continued pursuits in search of beauty."

Featured: rose absolute, rose fragments
Accents: spray paint (aerosols), galbanum, lily of the valley, lychee, ylang, saffron, magnolia, leather, cistus. Background: Asphalt, Detritus, Patchouli, Wood, Amber

www.charentonmacerations.com

4.   Platinum Muscus

"The sweet animalic beauty of musk is given a cool white ‘platinum’ sheen, a contemporary coverlet of metallurgy across a spicy/sweet scent, adding aldehydic sparkle and a molten core. Pine and sandalwood erupt immediately, deepened by clove, cinnamon and allspice under a soft sweet incense."

Musk combined with an earthy patchouli deepens the interplay of sweet and spicy at the base. This is a sophisticated interplay between ancient and modern and celebrates contrasts – warm and glacial, soft and strong, sweet and piquant.

Top: delicate green notes Middle: rose jasmine freesia nutmeg cinnamon clove geranium iris Base: resinous guaiacwood sandalwood patchouli amber musk

electimussparfum.com www.roullierwhite.com

5.   Smell of Weather Turning

Gorilla Perfumes - Volume 1.

"fresh and minty like a cool spring breeze, then changes as it settles into a lush, smokey bonfire scent."

A walk in the fields after a storm, raindrops drying on grass. Fresh English mint develops into sweet smoky hay on the skin. A fragrance from times past: warm, natural and unique. Notes: oakwood, hay, beeswax, nettle, English peppermint, mint, Roman chamomile.

www.lush.co.uk

 

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