Floris
Floris
189 votes
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
Citrus brightness cuts through immediately—lemon and bergamot sparkle against green artemisia's herbal snap. The English honey announces itself with creamed, almost buttery sweetness, but remains restrained, allowing the top notes room to breathe.
The oud emerges as a dark woody shadow beneath expanding honey warmth, whilst jasmine and rose add vulnerable florality around the composition's edges. Patchouli and orris root ground everything, transforming the fragrance into something considerably more complex—honeyed yet earthy, floral yet woody.
Tonka bean and vanilla amplify the amber-sweetness whilst sandalwood and labdanum deepen into a resinous, almost musky base. Honey persists but grows increasingly intertwined with warm amber and woody musk, creating a skin scent of remarkable staying power—less fragrant cloud, more olfactory second skin.
Floris Honey Oud is a fragrance that refuses easy categorisation, oscillating between the refined and the primal. The English honey accord dominates with an almost uncomfortable intensity—this isn't the delicate floral honey of conventional perfumery, but something considerably thicker, more ambered, verging on caramelised. It clashes deliberately with the oud's dark, animalic woodiness, creating a tension that feels distinctly deliberate rather than accidental.
The opening salvo of lemon and bergamot provides crucial ventilation, preventing this from becoming a cloying sweetness. Artemisia—that green, slightly astringent artemisia—acts as a palate cleanser, cutting through the viscosity with herbaceous sharpness. This citric-botanical backbone keeps what could have been a syrupy composition taut and purposeful.
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