Fresh N' Geeky
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
The initial burst is all crisp apple skin and cinnamon bark, their sweetness immediately undercut by sage's bitter camphor and tangerine's acidic brightness. It's fresh but spiky, like biting into fruit with unwashed hands after crushing herbs between your fingers.
As the opening fruit recedes, lavender and rosemary emerge in full aromatic force, their volatile oils amplified by patchouli's dark, loamy presence. The effect is intensely green and slightly medicinal, with none of the softness you'd expect—this is the heart of someone who keeps their cards close.
The woods settle into a dry, almost austere embrace, with olive wood's subtle bitterness anchoring the composition whilst sandalwood adds just enough warmth to keep things wearable. That sour milk accord weaves through it all, creating an intimate, skin-musk effect that's oddly compelling in its strangeness.
Elven Glory opens with an arresting collision of sharp, juicy apple and warming cinnamon—a combination that could easily veer into mulled cider territory, but here the addition of bitter-green sage and tart tangerine zest pulls it decidedly leftward into something more unsettling and cerebral. Annick Ménardo's architectural hand is evident in the way she's structured this aromatic fortress: the lavender and rosemary in the heart aren't there to soothe but to sharpen, their camphoraceous edges amplified by an earthy, almost mushroom-dark patchouli that refuses to play the hippie. This is lavender stripped of its bedtime associations, rosemary divorced from roast dinners—both rendered angular and strangely modern.
Then there's that sour milk accord, lurking in the base like an olfactory plot twist you didn't see coming. It doesn't announce itself as dairy gone off; instead, it manifests as a subtle lactic tang that adds an animalic, skin-like quality to the sandalwood and olive wood foundation. The woods themselves are dry and austere—olive wood's green-grey bitterness offsetting sandalwood's creamy tendencies—whilst that milk note creates an oddly intimate effect, as though you're smelling someone's neck after a long day rather than a polished composition.
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