AllSaints
AllSaints
75 votes
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
The rain accord and black lily collide with immediate freshness, immediately undercut by that distinctly synthetic, almost clinical edge—you're breathing in perfumed ozone filtered through asphalt rather than morning dew. The black lily's indolic darkness prevents this from ever feeling cheerful or innocent.
Orchid softens the framework considerably as orris concrete takes centre stage, creating an almost uncomfortable contrast—creamy floral luxe wrestling with deliberately austere, powdery minerality. This is where the fragrance's true character emerges: deliberately challenging rather than conventionally beautiful.
Cashmere wood and musk settle into a warm, skin-scent embrace that finally offers comfort, though the dry concrete notes linger, preventing any regression into vanilla-sweetness. The composition closes with studied restraint—intimate but never cosy.
Concrete Rain arrives as a decidedly urban floral—one that trades garden softness for metropolitan edge. The rain accord forms its conceptual spine, though rather than aquatic freshness, it's interpreted through a distinctly synthetic lens that feels less like petrichor and more like ozone bleeding through concrete. Black lily anchors this wetness with an indolic, slightly medicinal character that prevents the opening from becoming merely crisp; instead, it introduces a faintly smoky, almost funereal quality.
As the composition settles, orris concrete—that intriguing marriage of iris root's powdery refinement with industrial rawness—becomes the emotional centre. It's the moment where AllSaints' creative ambition becomes most apparent: the orchid shouldn't coexist peacefully with something called "concrete," yet here they negotiate a tense, compelling truce. The orchid contributes a creamy, almost cosmetic smoothness, whilst the orris concrete keeps everything deliberately austere, preventing any descent into conventional feminine florality.
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