Top Notes 
Apple whiskey
Ginger biscuit
White cognac
Peach skin
Spices
White thyme
Heart Notes 
Iris
Carnation
Jasminum auriculatum absolute
Liatris spicata
Spanish orange blossom absolute
Base Notes 
Costus
Amber
Ambergris
Castoreum
Fur
Hyraceum
Leather
Brown oakmoss
Cumin
French beeswax
Labdanum
Mitti attar
Siam benzoin
White oak03/29/2025
Floyd
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The essence behind the brandy glasses
He has probably always been sitting there. You can only see one eye reflecting the whiskey, as his lank fur falls into his face, smelling of scalp and smeared with earth, obscuring his true face. Glowing a strange apple-red in the light, youth flickers in glasses in front of him, still distant, the scent of sweet fruit he guards in them, which he clasps with his leathery hands and on which a white chocolate residue still lives in the woolly fuzz of pheromones. There in the dark Siamese brandy, the vanilla-white flowers begin to wilt and in the light of the candle on the counter, the amber in the glass turns to clay.
**
Dawn Spencer Hurwitz from North Boulder, Colorado, moves with her fragrances in the fluid border areas between perfumes, bespoke, aromatherapy and collaborations with artists. Time and again, I have been amazed at how well she manages to create fragrances with animalic components.
A prime example of this is "Foxy", which, after a fruity-boozy opening in which the acidity of apple whiskey harmonizes very pleasantly with warm-soft cognac, spicy ginger and sweet apricot peel, quickly turns into costus-fur-like, earthy animalic notes. Subtly chocolaty-sweet iris aromas balance out the rough traces of hyrax underneath, while vanilla-musky ambergris skillfully balances out the leathery-animalic nuances, so that all of this evokes a very attractive scalp scent for me, which is given a wool-wax-like depth by resins and beeswax. Jasmine, with its floral-fruity-animal aromas, seems to be a connecting element between the heart and base, in which loamy notes of mitti attar color the earthy-woody-resinous (benzoin, labdanum, amber, oak, moss) aromas grey. The essence behind the glasses of brandy appears moderate to shadowy and yet remains there all night.
(With thanks to Sapho)
**
Dawn Spencer Hurwitz from North Boulder, Colorado, moves with her fragrances in the fluid border areas between perfumes, bespoke, aromatherapy and collaborations with artists. Time and again, I have been amazed at how well she manages to create fragrances with animalic components.
A prime example of this is "Foxy", which, after a fruity-boozy opening in which the acidity of apple whiskey harmonizes very pleasantly with warm-soft cognac, spicy ginger and sweet apricot peel, quickly turns into costus-fur-like, earthy animalic notes. Subtly chocolaty-sweet iris aromas balance out the rough traces of hyrax underneath, while vanilla-musky ambergris skillfully balances out the leathery-animalic nuances, so that all of this evokes a very attractive scalp scent for me, which is given a wool-wax-like depth by resins and beeswax. Jasmine, with its floral-fruity-animal aromas, seems to be a connecting element between the heart and base, in which loamy notes of mitti attar color the earthy-woody-resinous (benzoin, labdanum, amber, oak, moss) aromas grey. The essence behind the glasses of brandy appears moderate to shadowy and yet remains there all night.
(With thanks to Sapho)
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