Phlur
Phlur
87 votes
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
The musk arrives first, immediately establishing itself as the fragrance's backbone, but it's almost apologetic—a gentle push rather than an assertion. Bergamot crackles briefly with citric life before the jasmine emerges, softer and more elusive, refusing to crystallise into the typical jasmine florality you might expect.
The neroli and orange blossom soften further into the composition, their bitterish green edges rounding into something powdery and nostalgic. The cyclamen adds a cool, slightly peppery dust that makes the heart phase feel less like a typical floral and more like an abstraction of one—fragile, somewhat faded, genuinely melancholic.
The sandalwood barely registers before the white musk and blond woods dissolve into pure powder, a gossamer veil of pale florality that clings to skin with almost no projection. Within four hours, you're left with barely a trace—this is a fragrance that disappears, quite literally living up to its name.
Missing Person is a study in restraint—a fragrance that whispers rather than announces itself. Constance Georges-Picot has crafted something genuinely peculiar here: a floral composition that feels simultaneously powdery and transparent, as though you're smelling the ghost of a scent rather than the thing itself. The opening marriage of musk and jasmine is immediately conspicuous, with the musk arriving as a skin-scent amplifier that tries desperately to give the jasmine some weight, some presence. But the jasmine resists, staying ethereal, almost sketched in rather than fully rendered.
The heart reveals the fragrance's true character—neroli and orange blossom conspire with a dusty cyclamen accord that feels genuinely distinctive, creating something reminiscent of pressed flowers in old paper, delicate and slightly melancholic. This is where Missing Person becomes interesting rather than merely pleasant; there's an old-fashioned femininity here, but it's fractured, uncertain, as though the wearer is perpetually caught between memory and present moment.
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