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Inspired by Jack Kerouac’s 1951 counter-cultural opus, this fragrance charts a road trip across America. It opens with the hot asphalt and rubber of New York city streets, drifts through wheat fields and whisky bars, and ends on the Pacific coast — cedar quiet and citrus bloom, a scent of restless freedom.
Inspired by André Breton’s 1937 surrealist work, this fragrance captures passion in tension. Dark roses unfurl with metallic bite, like blood drawn by a passionate kiss — unfolding between warmth and restraint, charged with the electricity of love’s wild contradictions and haunting intensity.
Inspired by Yukio Mishima’s 1971 meditation on impermanence, this scent lingers on the edge of splendour and decline. Opulent petals bruise into smoke and musk, touched by earth and embers, capturing beauty just as it tips into gentle fading, leaving behind a trace of desire and lingering longing.
Inspired by Conrad’s 1899 masterpiece, this fragrance journeys into the unknown. Damp earth and dense vegetation rise from the riverbanks, cut by coal smoke from the boat’s furnace, before giving way to the soft purity of ivory — a play between beauty and brutality, light and shadow.
Inspired by Joris-Karl Huysmans’ 1884 novel, this is decadence at its most unapologetic. A young sapling broken open — the raw green scent — soon lacquered and adorned, turned artificial and excessive. A faint metallic trace lingers, like the scent of blood at the moment of rupture.
Inspired by Simone de Beauvoir’s 1943 novel, this scent evokes the charged entanglements of Paris on the brink of war. Vetiver and oakmoss mingle with citrus and cedar, like an unmade bed, capturing the restless push and pull of desire — reckless, intimate, with a trace of familiarity made strange.
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