L'INCARNATION | Eau de Parfum - oeillet, yuzu, musc, chèvrefeuille

A warm honeyed sassafras floral that’s less vintage, more ancient - the flowers are dried and the nectar has become resinous. Definitely a bit powdery as well. I love this. It’s like a natural herbal take on the honeyed rootbeer-like sweetness of Tabu. Please try this if you are an oriental lover like myself - it’s like no other I’ve ever tried. Witchy honey. Absolutely beguiling.

On my skin, L'Incarnation smells like rich sun-warmed honey floating through a spiced perfume garden. Certainly not overly sweet, with depth and mystery. The rose and carnation really come through layers of varietal honey. I also catch scents of brugmansia, bitter lime, propolis, and cedar. This is the first thing I'll definitely buy full-size when my sample runs out.

There's a ridiculous scene in the Ridley Scott Cormac McCarthy adaptation of The Counsellor in which Malkina (Cameron Diaz) splays herself on a Ferrari windshield above Reiner (Javier Bardem), who reflects on the experience as 'overly gynaecological.' There is something about L'Incarnation that feels like a cross-section of the anatomy of a flower meeting the glass of a vehicle. The piercing citrusy notes are powdery, almost like a light braille, there's a crown of baby head smell, and it settles, on my skin, as light and buttery. At times, and at best, it reminds me of a more feminine, less metallic Les Lunatiques. At times, it smells a bit like effervescent vitamin C tablets.