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I’ve been mulling over buying this for myself and finally SPLURGED!
I’m quite interested in perfumes and generally pretty articulate about how to situate one perfume against all others, however, I was drawn to this perfume because instead of triggering a flood of references/ingredients this scent seems to refer to nothing other than itself. It’s the scent equivalent of a James Turrel piece — effectively ’empty’ and substance-less, but spatio-temporally endless. It can be experienced forever without ever ‘getting it’. It has no resolution, no bottom, no beginning or end, no point of reference other than the wearer(/viewer). And highly democratic in a way–it’s so stripped down of referential content that it’s possible to land on virtually any interpretation. It’s confounding but not intellectual at all. This scent is a place to meditate.
It’s unsurprising Julian Bedel’s influences are Borges and Darwin. This scent is a vast blank slate–an olfactory aleph. It’s ambiguous, isolated, and transitory, and somewhat reflective in it’s form.
It’s definitely a white musk, but, as mentioned, doesn’t recall any other musks. As I’m writing this it’s the dead of winter so it’s a little dry, smells simultaneously organic and chemical but definitely not ‘tech’. Though, I recall wearing my sample in the summer and it was much more warm, a more mammalian than cyborg.
It’s wonderful. I don’t like or dislike it but I do want to spend a lot of time with it and can’t imagine it ever getting old. It will be good for layering with virtually anything. Personally I think it would layer well with something a little waxy, oily, salty, milky. Alternatively it would be wonderful to mix with virtually any family of scents. It’s that vast.