Fragrance Du Bois
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
Passion fruit splits open with immediate wetness, its tropical tartness cut through with sharp bergamot and ginger's clean fire. The plum adds darker stone-fruit weight beneath the brightness, grounding the initial surge within seconds.
The spice deepens and transforms—now saffron's peppery hay and rose's slightly rough, near-bitter character emerge as the fruity effervescence recedes. Jasmine creeps in with its characteristic indolic warmth, creating a three-dimensional floral middle that smells like flowers photographed in documentary realism rather than romantic soft-focus.
The woods gradually assert themselves into a creamy, vaguely resinous base where cashmere wood's subtle sweetness plays against patchouli's earth. Vetiver and cedarwood create a dry, slightly spiced woody envelope that persists with quiet insistence rather than projection—intimate rather than expansive.
Fragrance Du Bois' Lovers is a fragrance caught in productive tension—simultaneously restless and grounded, playful yet serious about its sensuality. The opening assault of passion fruit and bergamot feels almost flirtatious, a bright counterpoint to the ginger's peppery insistence, but this isn't a frivolous composition. The spice accord (dominant at 100%) never softens into background sweetness; instead, it threads throughout like a spine, preventing the fragrance from becoming confectionery despite the 88% sweet accord trying its best.
What makes Lovers genuinely compelling is the saffron-rose interplay in the heart. Rather than the predictable path of spiced florals, here saffron's peppery earthiness wrestles with rose's indolic depth, creating something closer to an arid botanical garden than a perfumer's romanticised fantasy. The jasmine arrives not as floral reinforcement but as a slight animalic undermining—it complicates rather than confirms.
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