Lubin
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
A cool plum-violet accord greets you with gentle fruitiness, immediately dusted with that characteristic powdery texture—imagine violet leaf tea sweetened with just-ripe plum compote. The opening is soft and unassuming, almost shy, establishing epidOr as decidedly low-key from its first moments.
Orange blossom emerges as a creamy middleground, with jasmine adding a subtle animalic warmth that prevents the composition from reading as merely candied. The sandalwood and cedarwood slip in quietly, their dusty-cool properties amplifying that powdery sensation and creating a skin-like second skin—the fragrance has now become primarily about texture rather than distinct notes.
The base settles into a soft, tonka-vanilla embrace with lingering cedarwood providing structure. What remains is less a distinct fragrance and more a gentle sillage—creamy, faintly sweet, and woody in the most whispered sense. The fragrance becomes increasingly abstract, almost olfactory cashmere against the skin.
epidOr unfolds as a study in textural restraint—a fragrance that privileges creamy, almost tactile softness over projection. Thomas Fontaine has crafted something deliberately intimate here, a scent that whispers rather than declares. The plum and violet opening immediately establish a gentle fruitiness that refuses to veer into jammy territory; instead, it reads almost candied, as though the fruit has been lightly dusted with powder sugar. This powdery quality (52% of the accords) becomes epidOr's signature—it tempers what could otherwise be an aggressively sweet composition.
The heart is where the fragrance reveals its true character: orange blossom and jasmine create a creamy floral bed that feels more like skin than perfume. The sandalwood and cedarwood base begin their whisper immediately, preventing the jasmine from ever becoming indolic or heavy. What emerges is something neither properly floral nor properly fruity, but rather a hybrid space—a dried plum suspended in vanilla cream with barely perceptible wood smoke threaded beneath. The tonka bean provides rounded sweetness without cloying density; it's more almond-tinged than caramel-rich.
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