Signature

This obscurity is an impressive spicy amber incense, brimming with cinnamon, clove, cardamom on a bed of olibanum resin and tonka. Signature is no doubt an anomaly for its time, where animalic chypres and green fougeres were just beginning to lose their dominant grip and a tidal wave of aquatics and more subtle aromatics was fast approaching. Then we have Signature smelling like something that could've been released 20-25 years later, with its heart reminding me almost of that of CDG Avignon, with just enough of whatever go-to 80s accords and bases that were at hand at the time to really make Signature a hybrid of temporal dimensions. I belong in what seems to be a small sliver in the Venn Diagram of those fragrance enthusiasts who have just as strong an appreciation for vintage from this decade and the "niche" (for lack of a better word, as this word is really grating on my nerves lately) incenses, so this one is really a culmination of so much that I love.