03 Cuir Venenum Pierre Guillaume 2004

This is a strange one; reading the notes does not give a good idea of what it smells like. It opens with a blast of syrupy bubblegum grape and burning vinyl (not leather). The disparateness of the light and bubbly (grape) and the dark and dry (vinyl) is at the center of what makes me incessantly sniff at my wrist to make sense of it. Unfortunately there is a dusty/ashy quality to the scent that hampers my enjoyment of it. It seems to be more prominent the closer to the skin this is sampled.