New from Naomi Goodsir: Nuit de Bakélite (Isabelle Doyen, 2017)
Nuit de Bakelite is simple. Linear. Like a perfect, white flower standing on a tall stem, wearing only its truth.
A green, vegetable, damp, slightly
smoky fragrance, with a powerful sensuality deriving from being naked
and exposed.
The green side of this flower is backed
by a bouquet of galbanum, angelica, davana, violet leaves and karo
karounde, a natural, green, lush accord with such a strong
personality would do the fragrance alone. From this magnificent
accord, tuberose emerges in all its raw grace, as a huge amethyst
with incredible purple shades, brightening the dark of night with an
iridescent glow emanating from the inside outward.
The support structure consists of iris,
leather, styrax (benjoin), tobacco and guaiac wood. A warm, dry,
balanced set that begins to emerge after an hour from spraying, to
stay on the skin for many, many hours.
Neither male nor female, Nuit de
Bakélite is a fragrance with a crazy diffusive power: it is able to
create a huge scented bubble around those who wear it. A translucent
bubble, indeed, inviting others to approach and make compliments
(personally tested).
So far, Nuit de Bakélite is the only
fragrance - along with the Perris extract – that respects the
character of the true blossom. It has nothing to do with the
plasticized, carnal, fluorescent, medicinal, or hypersexy tuberose we
have been used to for decades by Fracas, Criminelle, Carnal, and all
the others, and I really liked that.
Nuit de Bakélite makes obvious that
everyone has always given an interpretation of this flower, while
this is a portrait from real, a 3D polaroid which so far, perhaps, no
one had understood so deeply.
In the next post, my meeting with Naomi and Isabelle!
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