The metallic collision
Massive velocity. Violent lift. Currently smelling of stainless steel — the exact thing I hate.
Version log — newest first
Every iteration lands here as I move it forward. Some progress fast. Some sit on the bench for months. Some never make it out at all.
I wanted something with massive velocity and a violent lift. Right now, it's an overbalanced, bright citrus and sharp bitter accord built on a heavy base of synthetic woods and moss. I'm forcing those crisp top notes to collide with a clean green tea extraction.
To keep it from being polite, I'm driving the background with clean aldehydes, sharp floral diffusers, and a heavy-duty synthetic fixative engine of Ambroxan, Ambrocenide, and deep Oakmoss absolute. It's intense, but it is still evolving. I'm currently thinking of adding lactones to the formula to see how that shifts the texture. Right now it's feeling very metallic — like cold air on a stainless steel work top. One thing I hate in perfumes is that metallic edge so many seem to have these days.