Téo Cabanel
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
Bergamot bursts forth with immediate brightness, almost shocking in its clarity, but within moments the geranium and cumin emerge aggressively, the curry note arriving like an unexpected hand on your shoulder. The spice isn't refined; it's raw and slightly unsettling, as if someone's set a small fire at the base of your neck.
The composition settles into its true character as myrrh and cistus rise, creating a resinous, almost medicinal embrace that domesticates the spice without eradicating it. The oud becomes apparent here—woody and slightly creaky—whilst the patchouli adds earthiness that prevents the fragrance from becoming purely aromatic, grounding it firmly in skin chemistry rather than abstract beauty.
Vanilla and tonka bean emerge as gentle anchors, the sweetness now balanced against lingering myrrh and the dry, almost talc-like base of vetiver and musk. The fragrance becomes a skin scent, intimate and whisper-soft, though the spice ghost lingers faintly—a reminder of its earlier intensity now mellowed into something almost sensual.
Barkhane arrives as a fragrance caught between two worlds—the crisp citrus clarity of Mediterranean morning light and the smouldering depths of desert night. Jean-François Latty has constructed something deliberately disorienting: a bergamot opening that promises freshness, only to pivot sharply into the spiced heart where geranium and cumin conspire with an almost aggressive curry note that reads less like culinary spice and more like warm leather scorched by sun.
This is a scent for the restless traveller, the collector who resists linearity. The geranium provides a rose-adjacent green thread, but the cumin and curry don't flirt—they dominate, creating an animalic, almost sweaty warmth that some will find magnetic and others confrontational. It's the olfactory equivalent of incense smoke curling through a fabric merchant's bazaar.
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