Commodity
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
The milk note arrives with startling literalism—a warm, almost yeasty creaminess that feels faintly sour and deeply unsettling, as though you've sprayed actual dairy onto your skin. It's confrontational in its honesty, making you question whether this is brilliant or merely uncomfortable.
The marshmallow and musk emerge softly, sweetening that austere milk opening into something resembling sweetened condensed milk—creamy, vanilla-touched, and oddly intimate. The synthetic musk wraps around your skin like a second layer, amplifying the fragrance's proximity and making it feel almost biological rather than aromatic.
The tonka bean's warmth anchors the composition whilst mahogany's dusty, slightly pencil-shaving woodiness gains prominence, creating a soapy, almost skincare-like drydown that's far more wearable than what preceded it. The overall effect softens into a creamy vanilla-wood base that bears only faint traces of the peculiar milk character that defined the opening.
Commodity's Milk is a deliberate provocation masquerading as comfort food. Christelle Laprade has constructed something genuinely odd here—a fragrance that smells like the creamy residue left in a bowl after cereal, transformed into wearable form. The milk note that opens proceedings isn't fresh dairy; it's almost fermented, possessing that slightly sour undertone you'd expect from whole milk left to warm. This anchors everything that follows with an uncanny realism that some will find deeply unsettling.
What prevents Milk from becoming utterly unwearable is the calculated sweetness layered beneath. The marshmallow heart doesn't arrive as fluffy confectionery—instead, it melds with the creamy opening to create something akin to sweetened condensed milk, that particular vanilla-tinged creaminess that coats the mouth. The musk here acts as a skin-like veil, synthetic in character, amplifying the intimacy to the point where this feels less like a fragrance and more like your body's own augmented scent.
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