These Miscegenic Three: Othello Ikiryō 2018

When they offered you the promotion to manager, you were delighted. It not only meant a lot of personnel responsibility, but also strategic creative power.
Finally being seen, not always just standing in the background. And D. followed you to the new location. Your rose. You love her more than anything. The scent of her skin when you make love, her sweet breath when she sleeps...
But now everything is different. There is competition and resentment in your team. That eats away at you. But even worse, D. seems to have started something with C., the very person you trusted and whose development you wanted to encourage... You can't bear this double betrayal. Not only does it turn your love into a lie and you into a laughing stock, but disloyalty can lead your entire team to disaster. The consequences are completely clear to you, frighteningly clear. You are not insane, as some will later claim. Everything is absolutely clear to you here in the dark. The sweetness, the love, the deception.
You look at D. as she sleeps. No, you can't hurt this beautiful body... You put the gun aside. But you have to do it. Otherwise the deception will continue to spread and destroy even more. And you realize with terrible sadness and certainty that it will be irrevocable. You can rekindle an extinguished light, but you can never rekindle her life light. D., your beautiful rose, will never be able to bloom and smell again, no matter how much you want it to, you already know that. And yet...

Be thus when thou art dead, and I will kill thee,
And love thee after. One more, and this the last.
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A perfume from 2018 explains a tragedy from 1604 to me. But of course that's no reason to wear the fragrance.
Just like Othello's mind, the darkness of this fragrance is not cloudy, it is all dark, but frighteningly and beautifully clear. Othello speaks in all seriousness of murdering his wife, and yet his imagery and language are poetic in the extreme. An indication of the emotional state, the intensity of the love Othello feels for Desdemona and what is at stake for him.
Oud and sloe form an exciting sweet-sour-animalic opening. In addition, there is amber described as black, dark dahlia, black pepper and very nicely perceptible for me black spruce, which adds and strengthens this dark kind of clarity. I soon perceive all of this at the same time. With terrifying clarity and calm.

The fragrance hardly changes on me, so I experience it differently to some people here so far. I perceive it as a snapshot of this reflection before the act, a moment in which everything shoots together, everything is there at once. Endless love, remembered and disappointed hope, betrayal, jealousy, fear. Everything in the dark. And absolutely clear.
And this moment lasts forever. For me, the fragrance lasts a very long time.

Great!

Thanks to @Can777 for the bottling!