Lubin
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
A sharp, herbaceous slap of cardamom and rosemary cuts through the initial spray, with cypress lending a dry, mineral austerity that feels almost architectural. Within moments, you're enveloped in something that smells like a medieval herb garden after rain—green, slightly bitter, distinctly unsweetened.
The composition softens into its darker core as copaiba balsam and myrrh emerge, creating a resinous, honeyed warmth that's more incense-like than edible. The tobacco begins to assert itself here, adding a smoky, slightly leathery character that grounds the fragrance firmly in earthy, contemplative territory rather than brightness.
Cypriol, cedar, and oud dominate the final hours, creating a woody, smoky base that becomes increasingly austere and mineral. The honey fades entirely, leaving behind something that smells of aged wood, distant smoke, and earth—a scent that whispers rather than speaks.
Galaad arrives as a distinctly austere composition—one that rejects softness in favour of herbal severity and resinous depth. The cardamom-cypress pairing in the opening establishes an almost medicinal territory, sharp and clarifying rather than sweet, whilst the rosemary adds a bitter-green sharpness that feels closer to a pine-scented apothecary than a conventional perfume counter. What makes Galaad compelling is how Delphine Thierry allows the base to colonise the entire composition: the copaiba balsam and myrrh in the heart create a darkly honeyed warmth that's smoky rather than gourmand, as though honey has been caramelised over burning wood. Cypriol—that earthy, vetiver-adjacent material—anchors everything to soil and stone, whilst the tobacco and oud add a further layer of aromatic complexity that prevents the fragrance from ever feeling decorative or precious.
This is a scent for those who gravitate towards the architecture of fragrance rather than its romance. The woody-resinous accord dominates throughout, creating a fundamentally austere character that nonetheless possesses genuine sophistication. Galaad suits the introspective wearer: someone who appreciates medieval aesthetics, worn leather, old books, and the contemplative burn of incense. It's morning coffee in a monastery, afternoon walks through cypress groves, evening hours spent in libraries with wooden panelling. Neither aggressively masculine nor feminine, it instead cultivates a kind of monastic neutrality—more concerned with texture and truth than with seduction.
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