Dark Tales
Dark Tales
508 votes
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
Almond and cinnamon hit with the warmth of something baking, mimosa adding a honeyed, almost boozy sweetness, before that jarring sulfur note arrives like a match struck in the dark. It's disconcerting in the best way—edible and acrid at once, a gourmand with teeth.
Heliotrope blooms into full powdery intensity, its play-dough sweetness amplified by honey whilst mothball creates an oddly nostalgic, protective quality, like opening grandmother's wardrobe. Black rose weeps dark, jammy petals into this sweetness, turning it baroque and slightly sinister.
Vanilla and cocoa settle into a deep, balsamic amber base where labdanum's leathery warmth meets oud's medicinal edge. The brine persists as a salty afterthought, white musk keeping everything soft yet strange, like sugar preserved in seawater, impossibly lasting.
Dame Gothel is a fairy tale told in naphthalene and burnt sugar, a scent that captures the uncanny domesticity of a witch's cottage deep in the forest. The opening arrests you immediately with cinnamon-dusted almond, so convincing you might reach for the biscuit tin, before an unsettling wisp of sulfur creeps in like smoke from a cauldron. This isn't sweet for sweetness's sake—it's sweet the way decay can be sweet, heliotrope's powdery marzipan facets colliding with actual mothball in the heart, creating something simultaneously comforting and deeply strange.
Black rose adds a Victorian mourning ribbon to the proceedings, its petalled darkness stained with honey that tastes faintly of old wax. The gourmand elements—vanilla, cocoa, Peru balsam—build a thick, resinous sweetness that labdanum and oud drag into shadowy territory, stopping this from becoming another sugary pastiche. What's truly brilliant is how brine cuts through at the base, a saline whisper that reads like preserved things in jars, specimens kept in formaldehyde, the dampness of stone walls.
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