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A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
The blackcurrant-pomegranate accord crashes in first, tart and assertive, with the Italian mandarin creating a shadowed backdrop rather than brightness. Within moments, the initial fruitiness tightens into something almost austere, the citrus and dark berries refusing to perform cheerfulness.
As the composition breathes, the white amber softens the fruit into a warmer, almost candied register, whilst jasmine emerges with restraint—creamy but never lush. The lily of the valley adds a green, slightly peppery dimension that prevents any descent into conventional florality, creating a strange luminosity that recalls moonlight on wet leaves.
The patchouli rises as a subtle resinous-smoky anchor, grounding the fragrance into something considerably more introspective. Musk and vetiver complete this transformation, creating a soft, powdery-bitter second skin that lingers with quiet persistence, the composition settling into warm, grey-toned comfort.
Super Moon arrives as a precisely calibrated contradiction—a fragrance that feels simultaneously luminous and grounded, frivolous and contemplative. The blackcurrant doesn't arrive as bright candy; instead, it settles into a dark, almost cassis-like richness that the Italian mandarin orange refuses to lighten, instead creating a shadowed citrus effect, as though the fruit exists in the fragrance's own penumbra. Pomegranate adds a tart, slightly dusty dimension, preventing the opening from ever becoming cloying.
What distinguishes Super Moon is how the heart refuses traditional floral prettiness. The white amber acts as a soft-focus lens, blurring the jasmine's edges so it emerges neither creamy nor indolic, but rather as a whisper of something vaguely honeyed without ever becoming honeyed itself. Lily of the valley provides a green, almost peppery counterpoint—that peculiar metallic-green quality that prevents the composition from drifting into femininity.
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