Top Notes
Adriatic fig leaf
Ripe fig
Thyme
Rosemary
Heart Notes
Fleur de sel accord
Extra virgin olive oil accord
Black olive
Red clay accord
Base Notes
Mediterranean pine
Fir balsam
Mediterranean cypress
Intro
Based on the rich leather and latex scent of the same name. A perfumer’s take on neon-soaked nightlife, the leather scene and raw, nocturnal behavior. With notes of latex, neoprene leather, black shoe shine, hydrocarboresin and styrax.
History
Olfactive Restoration: Downtown Manhattan, New York City October 1996.
Before the door opens, the music can already be felt vibrating through the floor. Inside, neon dissolves into darkness as bodies move beneath clouds of cigarette smoke and the humid warmth of crowded dance floors. Leather jackets brush past polished boots, spilled cocktails mingle with traces of black pepper and rose, and the city’s electric anonymity gives way to unexpected intimacy.
It is the scent of a New York that truly came alive after midnight: a city where freedom, desire and discovery found their own architecture in the spaces between dusk and dawn.
Developed with Rodrigo Flores-Roux.
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“A tribute to my mentor and friend, perfumer Rodrigo Flores-Roux, Nocturnality is a fragrance inspired by the behavior of nocturnal creatures that roam and hunt in the night. Taking Rodrigo’s affinity for black leather and the leather scene, it features an irreverent latex and leather accord wrapped in ancient resins and modern notes that inspire animalic feelings. It’s also an ode to New York nightlife, especially queer nightlife: leather bars, warehouse parties, cocktail bars with velvet banquettes and black pianos.” – Carlos Huber
Bio
- Woods, Gregory, Homintern: How Gay Culture Liberated the Modern World Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2016.
– Groom, Nigel, The New Perfume Handbook, Chapman & Hall, London, 1997.
– Genders, Roy, “Perfume through the Ages”, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, New York, 1972.
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NOCTURNALITY
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NOCTURNALITY
Top Notes
Adriatic fig leaf
Ripe fig
Thyme
Rosemary
Heart Notes
Fleur de sel accord
Extra virgin olive oil accord
Black olive
Red clay accord
Base Notes
Mediterranean pine
Fir balsam
Mediterranean cypress
Intro
Based on the rich leather and latex scent of the same name. A perfumer’s take on neon-soaked nightlife, the leather scene and raw, nocturnal behavior. With notes of latex, neoprene leather, black shoe shine, hydrocarboresin and styrax.
History
Olfactive Restoration: Downtown Manhattan, New York City October 1996.
Before the door opens, the music can already be felt vibrating through the floor. Inside, neon dissolves into darkness as bodies move beneath clouds of cigarette smoke and the humid warmth of crowded dance floors. Leather jackets brush past polished boots, spilled cocktails mingle with traces of black pepper and rose, and the city’s electric anonymity gives way to unexpected intimacy.
It is the scent of a New York that truly came alive after midnight: a city where freedom, desire and discovery found their own architecture in the spaces between dusk and dawn.
Developed with Rodrigo Flores-Roux.
Description
More
“A tribute to my mentor and friend, perfumer Rodrigo Flores-Roux, Nocturnality is a fragrance inspired by the behavior of nocturnal creatures that roam and hunt in the night. Taking Rodrigo’s affinity for black leather and the leather scene, it features an irreverent latex and leather accord wrapped in ancient resins and modern notes that inspire animalic feelings. It’s also an ode to New York nightlife, especially queer nightlife: leather bars, warehouse parties, cocktail bars with velvet banquettes and black pianos.” – Carlos Huber
Bio
- Woods, Gregory, Homintern: How Gay Culture Liberated the Modern World Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2016.
– Groom, Nigel, The New Perfume Handbook, Chapman & Hall, London, 1997.
– Genders, Roy, “Perfume through the Ages”, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, New York, 1972.
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