Stéphane Humbert Lucas
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
Sour cherry and raspberry launch with almost piercing brightness, their natural tartness preventing any immediate sweetness from dominating. The initial minutes feel fresh and slightly tart—like biting into fruit before its full ripeness—with no soft edges.
Almond and heliotrope bloom into creamy florality, enveloping the berries in honeyed softness whilst blue atlas cedar introduces airy woodiness. The balance shifts markedly here; what was crisp becomes decidedly sweet and powdery, with the spice accord beginning to assert itself beneath.
The base reveals its true character as latex and oud emerge, creating a synthetic-meets-natural friction that feels deliberately discordant. Vanilla absolute, musk, and patchouli settle into deep earthiness, but that rubbery, slightly animalic edge persists, creating an ultimately unsettling finish that lingers ambiguously between comfort and unease.
Qom Chilom is a fragrance that refuses easy categorization, oscillating between pulpy fruit-forward sweetness and deeply unsettling animalic undertones. The sour cherry and raspberry notes arrive with genuine tartness—this isn't the candied fruit of designer fragrances, but rather the slightly bitter skin of stone fruit that catches your palate. Yet the heliotrope and almond in the heart sweet-talk you into complacency, wrapping those berries in creamy, almost marzipan-like warmth, whilst blue atlas cedar provides a crystalline woody frame that stops the composition from cloying.
What distinguishes Qom Chilom is its peculiar courage in the base. Where most fragrances would settle into safe vanilla and woody notes, Humbert Lucas introduces latex—a rubbery, almost medicinal element—alongside oud and patchouli that transforms the entire narrative into something distinctly uncomfortable. This is the scent of someone unafraid to present contradictions: sweetness punctuated by leathery, slightly acrid undertones. The musk here isn't the clean musks of conventional perfumery but something more faintly animalic, like skin and teak shavings meeting synthetic harshness.
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