Diesel
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
Cinnamon and bergamot assault the senses with spicy immediacy, that pink-pepper-adjacent warmth that makes you slightly nostalgic without identifying why. The grapefruit attempts mediation, adding brightness, but it's thoroughly outmanoeuvred by the cinnamon's determined potency.
Orange blossom emerges with honeyed softness, gentling the composition considerably, whilst iris introduces a soapy, almost-chalky refinement that recalibrates everything. The spice mellows but remains present, now interwoven with amber sweetness that feels genuinely luxurious rather than artificial—a creamy, almost vanillic undercurrent develops.
Frankincense and myrrh monopolise proceedings, the fragrance transforming into a resinous, vaguely ecclesiastical haze. Labdanum adds caramel undertones to the woody base, creating something almost-ambroxan-like in its skin-clinging warmth, gradually fading into your clothing's fibres rather than disappearing entirely.
Fuel for Life Spirit arrives as a peculiar marriage of spice-driven sweetness and ecclesiastical solemnity. Fabrice Pellegrin has constructed something deliberately contradictory here—a fragrance that wants to be both a dessert course and a temple incense simultaneously. The cinnamon-bergamot opening announces itself with assertive warmth, but it's the heart where things become genuinely compelling: orange blossom and iris create an almost powdery elegance, their floral restraint pushing back against the gourmand sweetness threatening to overwhelm the composition. This tension is precisely what prevents Fuel for Life Spirit from collapsing into sticky mediocrity.
The amberwood and frankincense base introduces ceremonial gravitas—there's a distinctly resinous quality here, myrrh and labdanum creating an almost amber-tinged incense that feels more temple than tobacco lounge. It's sweet, yes, but never cloying; spicy, but never harsh. The woody accord (52%) provides an earthy counterbalance, grounding what could otherwise feel dangerously ethereal.
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