Byredo
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
The Sicilian lemon hits with crystalline sharpness, cut immediately by green angelica seed that feels almost herbaceous—as though you've crushed fresh plant matter between your fingertips. The lingonberry adds unexpected tartness, slightly jammy but refusing sweetness, creating an opening that feels botanical and vaguely austere rather than cheerful.
Jasmine sambac and tuberose emerge with an almost aggressive florality, drowning out the citrus entirely and transforming the composition into something heady and nearly suffocating. The green accord persists beneath, preventing total sweetness, but the fragrance becomes decidedly more perfume-like, losing the fresh-cut quality of its opening. This is when Flowerhead reveals its true character: dense florals on a slightly dusty, mineral-tinged backdrop.
By four hours, the amber and suede collapse into whispers—barely detectable, more like the ghost of a scent than its substance. What remains is a faint, increasingly abstract floral haze, pleasant but thoroughly depleted, lingering as little more than a skin scent that requires proximity to detect.
Flowerhead announces itself as a study in botanical restraint—a fragrance that seems almost apologetic about existing. Jérôme Epinette has constructed something deliberately introverted here: Sicilian lemon and angelica seed arrive with crisp immediacy, but they're quickly subsumed beneath a dense, almost suffocating jasmine and tuberose heart that feels more botanical illustration than olfactory experience. There's something peculiar about how the lingonberry threads through the composition, adding a tart, slightly herbaceous quality that prevents this from becoming another creamy white floral. Instead, it reads as faintly mineral, almost green in its restraint.
The real tension emerges in how Epinette handles the suede base—it's dusty rather than plush, lending the fragrance an antiquarian quality, as though you're inhaling scent from aged fabric rather than contemporary grooming. The amber that should provide warmth instead feels thin, struggling to anchor the floral architecture above it.
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3.6/5 (143)