Demure.
Textural skin accord.
A warm composition exploring dry woods, muted amber, cocoa dust, soft fabric accords, and restrained sweetness. Worn close — read like cloth held against the wrist.
- Family
- Amber Woody
- Concentration
- Extrait — 24 %
- Composition
- 12 raw materials
- Edition
- Volume I · 2025
The composition,
held in fabric.
Read as a perfumer's worksheet — corrected, weighted, revised. Materials accumulate from volatile to fixative, each entered by hand and adjusted across drafts.
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- Fresh Citrus7.0 %
- Green Accord5.0 %
- Cherry8.0 %
- Ginger4.0 %
- Floral Accord9.0 %
- Woods11.0 %
- Caramel6.0 %
- Cacao9.0 %
- Vanilla7.0 %
- Coumarin8.0 %
- Amber11.0 %
- Woody Base15.0 %
The fragrance behaves
like cloth.
- 01warm paper
- 02folded textiles
- 03cocoa dust
- 04dry amber
- 05skin warmth
- 06old wood
- 07muted sweetness
- 08soft shadows
- Texture
- Powdered, warm, slightly waxen
- Warmth
- Body-temperature · close radiator
- Proximity
- Worn within an arm's distance
- Materiality
- Wool, paper, raw cocoa, suede
- Softness
- Restrained — never gourmand
A measured study
of warmth.
Read across glassware: the same composition expressed as concentration, diffusion, skin proximity, and the slow descent of its evaporation. Demure remains close to the wearer.
- Concentration24 % aromatic compound
- DiffusionHeld within an arm's radius
- Skin ProximityWorn directly against the body
- Evaporation CurveLong fixative tail · slow descent
Read slowly,
over an afternoon.
Opening
“A restrained citrus lift softened by green freshness.”
Transition
“Warm florals and woods emerge through muted spice and soft fruit.”
Drydown
“A close-to-skin veil of amber, cocoa, woods, and quiet sweetness.”
Fragments from
the workbook.
Pages lifted from successive drafts of F/02 — corrections, marginalia, second thoughts. They are kept as evidence that a composition is never finished, only set down.
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"Reduce cacao by one part — it is reading too sweet against the amber. Hold the woody base; the fixative tail is what the composition is for. Try without coumarin tomorrow."
VII
Intensity sampled hourly from a paper blotter — the tail is slow, the descent uneven, with cocoa returning faintly at hour six.
Composition emerges through
balance, structure, and revision.
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