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watercolour pencils
Translucent coloured pencils, in shades of rose quartz and buffy taupe. Sonic Flower is a membrane-thin musk that plays both powdery and watery. Like watercolours drying upon fine parchment. The star is a pale wood pulp, thanks to the carrot seed, and a starchy fruit accord, which I can best describe as the core of an unripe pear. I’m obsessed. (Only in fragrance reviews will you find shit like: “I love the smell of half-desiccated fruit and pencil shavings”). But this is such an easy wear. Sonic Flower is clean, comforting, and – here comes the hitch – criminally ephemeral. I uncorked the tester and poured it on myself but couldn’t scent it longer than two hours. Still my favourite of the “your-skin-but-better” gang thus far. And a fine addition to my growing list of “freshly-sharpened-pencil” scents (see Byredo’s Desert Dawn and Universal Flowering’s Burst!).
Mental Snapshot: A phantom still life, sketched in thin air. Gossamer curtains pool over a pedestal bearing a crystal cornucopia of glass fruit. A chiffon veil spools over the bare flesh of a marble statue.
tl;dr: invisible art
Mental Snapshot: A phantom still life, sketched in thin air. Gossamer curtains pool over a pedestal bearing a crystal cornucopia of glass fruit. A chiffon veil spools over the bare flesh of a marble statue.
tl;dr: invisible art