Halloween
Halloween
108 votes
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
Cardamom and black pepper announce themselves with immediate peppery warmth, creating an almost culinary spiciness that feels both fresh and slightly dangerous. The first minutes are all about this spiced declaration, bright and assertive, with none of the sweetness yet visible.
As the spice begins its gradual fade, sage and iris step forward, the iris particularly becoming more prominent with its powdery, slightly chalky texture that softens the composition considerably. A delicate balance emerges here—the herbaceous sage grounds the sweetness beginning to rise from below, whilst the iris powder creates an almost vintage quality, like opening a decades-old wardrobe and catching the scent of stored fabrics and dried botanicals.
Vanilla and leather assume dominance, the leather now fully awakened and insistent, whilst the vanilla—boosted by that amberwood—provides sweetness with genuine depth rather than candied lightness. The woody notes provide a drying, slightly smoky backbone that prevents this from ever becoming gourmand-soft; instead, it settles into a sophisticated, masculine leather-vanilla that persists as a subtle second skin.
Halloween — Man Shot arrives with the swagger of someone who's just walked into a dimly lit room and commanded attention without speaking. This is a fragrance that refuses the polite middle ground, instead anchoring itself in the friction between spice and sweetness, between powdery softness and leather's deliberate roughness.
The cardamom and black pepper opening announces itself with genuine heat—not aggressive, but insistent, like the warmth of a carefully lit cigar. As it settles, sage and iris emerge from beneath the spice, the sage bringing an herbaceous, almost culinary earthiness that prevents this from becoming a simple gourmand. The iris, powdery as it is (that 64% powdery accord is unmistakable), softens the composition's harder edges whilst maintaining its backbone of mineral cool. It's this iris that stops this from being a straightforward aromatic leather fougère; instead, it creates an unsettling duality—simultaneously refined and untamed.
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