Goutal
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
A bracing assault of peppermint and bright angelica seed creates an almost medicinal freshness, whilst the orange emerges bitter and herbaceous rather than candied. For the first few minutes, you're enveloped in a sharp, green clarity that feels almost confrontational—this is no soft introduction.
As the peppermint's initial bite subsides, caraway takes centre stage with its warm, slightly peppery spice, and the jasmine reveals itself as surprisingly clean and aldehydic rather than creamy. The mastic weaves everything together into a cohesive herbaceous-resinous accord that smells like a carefully curated collection of dried botanicals—faintly medicinal, deeply contemplative.
The fir balsam and stone pine sustain the woody-green narrative established earlier, whilst tonka bean offers only the faintest suggestion of vanilla sweetness, never softening the composition's austere character. Immortelle contributes a subtle hay-like desiccation, and within hours, the fragrance retreats to a whisper of green and resinous warmth before vanishing almost entirely.
Nuit Étoilée Goutal is a fragrance that inhabits an unsettling threshold between herbalism and nocturnal mystery. The opening salvo of peppermint and angelica seed creates something almost medicinal—sharp, green, slightly austere—before the citrus arrives to soften rather than sweeten. This is no cheerful bergamot; the orange reads as bitter-edged, herbaceous, as though squeezed from rind rather than flesh.
The heart reveals the fragrance's true character: caraway steps forward with its distinctive seed-spice warmth, anchoring the Egyptian jasmine, which here avoids indolic richness in favour of a cleaner, almost aldehydic interpretation. Mastic adds a piney, resinous quality that binds these elements into something unexpectedly coherent—herbaceous, yes, but also faintly medicinal in the most sophisticated sense. This is the scent of a night-time botanist's apothecary.
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