Lubin
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
The elemi resin and artemisia converge immediately, creating a green-tinged, almost herbal opening that feels slightly austere against the bergamot's citric shimmer. Within seconds, this isn't a conventional fragrance greeting—it's a challenge, a check of your intentions before allowing you closer.
As the heart emerges across the first two hours, the raspberry liqueur's vinous sweetness softens the artemisia's bitterness whilst Sichuan pepper adds a subtle, tingling sensation that makes the Bulgarian rose feel dangerous rather than decorative. The fragrance becomes increasingly sensual here, revealing its contradictions as strengths rather than flaws.
The base settles into a warm, amber-toned embrace where frankincense and dark chocolate create an almost resinous sweetness balanced against the lingering spice and precious woods. What remains is intimate and slightly intoxicating—a scent that feels like it belongs on skin rather than floating in air.
Upper Ten for Her arrives as a peculiar collision between a spice merchant's cabinet and a liqueur cabinet—one that shouldn't work but somehow does. Delphine Thierry has constructed something deliberately prickly, where elemi resin's piney, slightly medicinal character refuses to soften under the bergamot's citric warmth. Artemisia cuts through like wormwood's bitter green whisper, establishing an almost herbal austerity that warns you this won't be a comfortable embrace.
The heart is where the fragrance's contradictions become seductive. Raspberry liqueur—not fresh fruit, but rather the boozy, jammy incarnation—nestles against Bulgarian rose absolute in a pairing that feels vaguely indecent, as though you've stumbled upon someone's guilty pleasure. Sichuan pepper enters as a calculated provocation, creating a mild, almost effervescent tingle that makes the sweetness feel earned rather than inevitable. This is not demure floristry; this is rose with an edge, rose that's been somewhere and has stories to tell.
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