Illusory · Extrait de Parfum · 10 ml
Come
Closer
A glass of cherry wine spilled on oak and dry Texas cedar. Dark fruit, smouldering incense, warm fur. Deeply sensual, the perfect date night fragrance.
A glass of cherry wine spilled on oak and dry Texas cedar. Dark fruit, smouldering incense, warm fur. Deeply sensual, the perfect date night fragrance.
It opens bright, deepens into the glass, and settles into the skin. The composition follows the whole date, from the first sip of wine to the bedroom. That's where the animalic edge comes in.
A real glass of red is the barrel, the sugar, the grape and the alcohol all at once. The cherry wine accord in Come Closer is built the same way, layer by layer.
Wine remembers the barrel it slept in. The accord borrows that memory from the base: oak wood and Texas cedarwood rise up through the fruit and give the wine its tannic, cask-aged backbone.
Not candy-sweet, dessert-wine sweet. A jammy, slightly cooked richness sits at the centre of the accord, the sweetness of fruit that has been concentrated rather than sugared.
The opening's strawberry and grape pour straight into the heart. Grape gives the wine its varietal body; strawberry keeps a fresh, red-fruit brightness flickering over the top so the darkness never turns flat.
The fermented lift. A warm, winey vapour, that first swirl of a freshly opened bottle. It gives the accord its adult edge and its warmth on the skin.
Most cherry fragrances use one cherry note. Come Closer uses two, and keeps them distinct on purpose.
The liquid cherry. Fermented, warm and slightly hazy: cherry that has been crushed, aged and poured. It carries the booziness and the barrel, and it moves: this is the note that swirls through the whole heart of the fragrance.
Texture: fluid, vinous, radiant.
The solid cherry. Dark skinned and ripe to the point of bursting, all flesh and skin. It sits still at the centre of the fragrance while the wine swirls around it.
Texture: dense, skin-close, near-edible.
Texas cedarwood is the rougher, more characterful cousin of the familiar Virginia cedar. Drier, smokier, with a raw pencil-shaving sharpness and a faintly leathery, tar-like edge.
That dryness is the whole point. All that dark fruit and wine needs somewhere to land, and Texas cedar gives it parched, sun-cracked wood: spilled wine soaking into a dry cellar floor. It keeps the sweetness honest.
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