Duke of Burgundy

This movie is one of my favourites that I've seen so far this year, so of course I had to try a perfume bearing its name. On me it's not very green at all, it starts of quite leathery and gradually becomes more soft and musky. The osmanthus reveals itself after about an hour, and makes this a very wearable but sexy fragrance. Dirty but composed, reflecting the aura of the film. Beautiful.

INITIAL THOUGHTS: Smells like peach juice 😍 If you like I want Choo by Jimmy Choo but want a juicier smell with green notes then you may love this! DRYDOWN: Smells exactly like the pink Johnson's Baby lotion

A beautifully-composed musky suede, powdery and a little sweet with the purple-floral heliotrope popping through. This is a winningly wearable clean-skin scent, utterly full bottle worthy.

I cannot claim that I know the movie The Duke of Burgundy. But I can appreciate fragrances being made to fit another artistic view, and the journey this fragrance took me on made me want to see the actual movie. The fragrance is a clean and soft leathery suede that initially is very pleasant and light, though, slightly masculine. The initial spray on my skin gives a green and spicy scent, but at the same time it is as clean, sterile, and anonymous as it was on the paper strip. The leather is shining obviously through right from the start, and it makes the fragrance soft and almost velvet-y. But it is not smooth, it is powdery in the most intoxicating way. It makes you want to smell and smell and smell and smell until your head hurts and you think that you have smelled so much and so hard that your brain chemistry is altered forever. In the drydown the animal notes emerges, and I can understand the review that says “pissy, sweaty funk”. Still, I don’t find it all too negative. Because in this perfume it just makes sense??? In a very very weird way??? It is absolutely not a perfume I would wear myself, but it is a smell that I could crave? It is a melancholic memory in an old suede jacket that you’ve forgotten in the back of your closet.

i wear this when I'm feeling just a little tortured, emotionally. powdery in such a way that obfuscates the rest of the composition, but it just makes you put your nose a little closer