Bahoma
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
Bright citrus oils—particularly grapefruit and bergamot—erupt with immediate clarity, but within moments that green galbanum surges forward with almost alarming intensity, transforming the opening into something lean and faintly bitter. The fresh accord battles immediately against green, herbal notes that smell less like perfume and more like botanical extraction.
The heart settles into a complex green-spicy-woody meditation, where basil and ravansara add warming spice against the persistent galbanum and now-visible elemi resin. This middle passage is where the fragrance's strange beauty emerges—the herbal notes becoming less aggressive, more nuanced, whilst the woody framework gradually asserts itself with dry cedar and Virginia wood.
By the final hours, what remains is subtle and austere: vetiver, hay, labdanum, and moss create a distinctly earthy, almost hay-strewn base. The citrus has entirely vanished, leaving only whispered woody-herbal traces, a dry, green-tinged skin scent that smells less like traditional perfume and more like having stood in an herb garden as dusk fell.
Desire Bahoma arrives as a deliberately fractured composition—less a polished perfume than a candid snapshot of botanical contradiction. The green accord dominates with an almost aggressive vegetative intensity; galbanum's bitter-green bite wrestles against the unexpected presence of "spinach" and "filth" in the heart, suggesting someone deliberately reached for the unglamorous notes that other perfumers discard. It's a fragrance that asks uncomfortable questions about what "freshness" actually means, rejecting the typical citrus-floral sweetness in favour of something closer to crushed green tomato stems and damp garden earth.
The citrus top—bergamot, grapefruit, mandarin—arrives brightly enough, but it's immediately undermined by that verdant, almost metallic galbanum, creating a tension that defines the composition's character. There's a deliberate austerity here, a spicy-woody skeleton (cedar, precious woods, vetiver) that prevents the fragrance from becoming pretty or approachable. The woody base adds a slightly resinous, almost medicinal warmth, yet hay and moss pull it back toward the herbal and muted.
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