Top Notes 
Embers
Saffron
Coriander
Cumin
Heart Notes 
Leather
Oud
Tobacco absolute
Base Notes 
Ash
Benzoin
Cypriol
Gaiac wood
Frankincense
Mysore sandalwood
Patchouli04/14/2025
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At the gates of oblivion
As I tried to forget, I followed trails of smoldering saffron. I set fire to my thoughts of animal skin and tar in pyroclastic mists. What I rubbed on it with washing powders. With flickering embers on crackling logs. Shattered memories flew in sparks towards the gray skies. They danced as shadows in the ash rain, covering the damp roots, which searched with their tiny clammy fingers for support in the scorched earth and yet found only traces of silver hair, dark cigars, dried up, decayed, frost crystals of petrol and amber marked with coal. Then the world billowed like mildew in the morning.
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Weston Adams from St. Louis, Missouri, is a musician, author, filmmaker and philosopher, a multimedia artist who, among other things, tries to get to the roots of olfactory imagination with scents. This requires the recipient to take their time, which in today's everyday life requires a meditative detachment from it.
With "Oblivion Access", he has created a fragrance that approaches this theme with acrid-smoky, gray-cool, sharp-leathery, burnt-woody and damp-earthy notes with only a few resinous silver linings. Blindly, I would have guessed a scent by Marcus McCoy or Donnie Bovie, as it bears the typical signature of House of Orpheus or Cinis Labs thanks to its cool, smoky transparency.
Adams also uses the pungent saffron notes typical of US indie leather-smoke fragrances, birch-tar leather aromas evoking washing powder or scouring agents, as well as a dominant incendiary accord that is initially reminiscent of subtly fruity juniper, which appears increasingly sooty with the ashes from the base. Gradually, a few cigar tobacco notes, fine light resin threads, moist, rooty, almost frosted earth (cypriol, patchouly), stewing wood (guaiac, synthetic oud) and petrol-like, glue-like Mysore sandalwood emerge from the clammy, smoky veil. The moderately projecting overall impression, however, remains that of a frosty mist saturated with smoke and leather over clammy hoarfrost floors.
(With thanks to PerfumeAl)
**
Weston Adams from St. Louis, Missouri, is a musician, author, filmmaker and philosopher, a multimedia artist who, among other things, tries to get to the roots of olfactory imagination with scents. This requires the recipient to take their time, which in today's everyday life requires a meditative detachment from it.
With "Oblivion Access", he has created a fragrance that approaches this theme with acrid-smoky, gray-cool, sharp-leathery, burnt-woody and damp-earthy notes with only a few resinous silver linings. Blindly, I would have guessed a scent by Marcus McCoy or Donnie Bovie, as it bears the typical signature of House of Orpheus or Cinis Labs thanks to its cool, smoky transparency.
Adams also uses the pungent saffron notes typical of US indie leather-smoke fragrances, birch-tar leather aromas evoking washing powder or scouring agents, as well as a dominant incendiary accord that is initially reminiscent of subtly fruity juniper, which appears increasingly sooty with the ashes from the base. Gradually, a few cigar tobacco notes, fine light resin threads, moist, rooty, almost frosted earth (cypriol, patchouly), stewing wood (guaiac, synthetic oud) and petrol-like, glue-like Mysore sandalwood emerge from the clammy, smoky veil. The moderately projecting overall impression, however, remains that of a frosty mist saturated with smoke and leather over clammy hoarfrost floors.
(With thanks to PerfumeAl)
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