Bubble and Geek
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
Bergamot and grapefruit explode with immediate citric vitality, their brightness amplified by geranium's peppery green bite. The effect is sharply zesty, almost herbal rather than purely fruity, like crushing citrus peel against your wrist.
As the citrus recedes, geranium solidifies into the composition's backbone, joined by jasmine's almost powdery amber and lily of the valley's metallic sweetness. The middle phase is the scent's most complex moment—a tense negotiation between floral prettiness and green, spicy austerity.
Cedarwood and oakmoss emerge as the fragrance settles into a resolutely woody, earthy finale. Myrrh adds burnt, resinous depth, leaving behind a dry, almost herbal residue that clings quietly to skin.
Big Damn Heroes arrives as a peculiar collision of sweetness and severity—a fragrance that refuses easy categorisation. The citrus-geranium combination creates an almost tart brightness, geranium's green pepperness cutting through bergamot's honeyed warmth with surgical precision. There's something deliberately discordant about this structure: where you might expect the jasmine and lily of the valley to soften matters, they instead amplify the fragrance's slightly astringent character, adding an almost soapy, indolic depth rather than romantic florality.
The base reveals the scent's true obsession: wood rendered through a distinctly herbal lens. Cedarwood arrives not as powder or warmth but as pencil shavings and dry rot, whilst oakmoss—that controversial ingredient so tightly regulated nowadays—adds an earthy, almost medicinal undertone. Myrrh completes the picture with a burnt, resinous bitterness that prevents this from ever feeling cosy or approachable.
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