Ghost
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
Belle de Nuit and Indian rose collide with spicy-green immediacy, the floral notes suggesting darkened greenhouse air rather than garden freshness. There's an almost sharp quality here, as though you've disturbed something sleeping.
The peach and apricot emerge with dusty sweetness, their edges softened by datura's subtle narcotic quality. The composition settles into a powdery, almost crepe-like texture—still recognisably fruited, but rendered intimate and slightly abstract, as though the sweetness is happening beneath translucent fabric.
Vanilla and white woods emerge with restraint, creating a pale, skin-like base that smells more mineral and cool than traditionally comforting. The fragrance becomes gossamer-thin, a whisper of dried rose petals and faint fruit skin rather than a sustained presence.
Ghost — Deep Night is a fragrance that courts ambiguity with seductive intent. Michel Almairac has constructed something deliberately nocturnal here: a scent that refuses the cheerfulness of daylight florals, instead wrapping itself in the complex interplay between honeyed stone fruits and darkened florals. The Belle de Nuit flower—that deliberately renamed belladonna accord—meets Indian rose not as a classical pairing, but as a tension between narcotic sweetness and something with genuine bite, a rose that smells faintly shadowed rather than dewy.
The peach and apricot in the heart don't read as fresh or summery; instead, they've been rendered soft and almost fermented, their natural acids muted into something more like dried fruit preserves or the fading sweetness of overripe flesh. Datura—that poisonous bloom—threads through this fruity sweetness with a subtle, almost imperceptible bitterness, preventing the composition from tipping into gourmand territory despite its considerable sugar content. This is the crucial moment where Ghost — Deep Night distinguishes itself: it could be cloying, but instead maintains an eerie refinement.
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