Avon
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Purple basil and elemi resin announce themselves with sharp, almost minty herbaceousness, whilst black tea provides a bitter, steeped-in-tannins foundation. The acridity note creates an immediate edge—something slightly discordant and faintly metallic that resists immediate comfort.
As the herbal top notes recede, the tobacco emerges with considerable warmth, merging seamlessly with the leather accord to create something richly animalic. The Siberian stone pine adds a cool, resinous counterpoint that prevents the composition from becoming too heavy, resulting in a complex interplay between warmth and icy restraint.
Vetiver, cade juniper wood, and black leather form an increasingly austere base, shedding the tobacco's sweetness to reveal something sparse and woody. The composition settles into a lean, slightly smoky whisper—more concept than presence, yet distinctly present on the skin for those willing to lean in close.
Aromadisiac for Him arrives as a deliberately austere proposition—a fragrance that rejects sweetness with almost militant precision. Loïc Bisceglie has constructed something genuinely unusual here: a unisex composition that reads as cerebral leather-work rather than seduction. The elemi resin and purple basil create an herbaceous, slightly medicinal opening that feels more apothecary than cologne counter, whilst the black tea grounds everything in a dry, tannic reality. What's remarkable is how the tobacco heart doesn't soften the leather accord; instead, it amplifies a smoky, almost burnt quality that dominates the fragrance's DNA.
This is leather for those who find most leather fragrances insufficiently challenging. The black leather and cade juniper wood form the fragrance's gravitational centre—dense, woody, and unapologetically animalic. There's a rusticity here that suggests worn saddle leather left in a woodshed, dust and vetiver clinging to the surface. The birch and Siberian stone pine inject a cool, slightly resinous greenness that prevents the composition from becoming oppressively dark, whilst the acridity note (a rarity in mainstream fragrance) provides an edgy, almost metallic prickle that keeps you unsettled, in the best possible way.
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