Quality of Flesh (Michele Marin for HomoElegans, 2015)
The second scent in the HomoElegans line ( website here ), " Quality of Flesh " is inspired by the painter Francis Bacon , who once said "I like men. I like their brains, I like the quality of their flesh." On HE site you can read : "Drunk with the gin of Soho's pubs. A mixture of smoke and grotesque laughters. He oozes art and swallows life. London's streets are damp and dark, rich of sensations, attractions, temptations. The ferocious excitement of male bodies. Muscles, hair, flesh. A brief oblivion that loosens the constant traction of the spirit. A tender and violent love, born from the feebleness of left out men". Here again Michele's ability to translate all this into a perfume has surprised me. There's smoke, alcohol, poetry combined with fierce animality, sweat, despair only a bit mitigated by physical attraction ... The fragrance is not at all sweet, domesticated or "sober", but on the contrary smells