"They currently have ten, all of them of high quality and well put together. Three, Narcotic Bohemic, Shaman and Cérémonie, stand out in my view...."
After a brief, deceptively anodyne sweet note up front, within seconds NB develops an iris accord unlike most others, metallic and sinister to an extent I do not remember smelling before, even in the original Iris Silver Mist (Serge Lutens, 1994)
Shaman hits the spot perfectly: a luminous leather with a quiet, distant floral note and a faintly vanillic Kraft-paper character. It is utterly beautiful. I would love to know who composed this marvel.
A beautiful, dark accord of fruit (tinned pineapple) and patchouli against an in-cense-leather background. Cérémonie achieves an effect like that raspy, sprayed-on, purple flock on glass Christmas tree ornaments, first explored in perfumery by Loulou (Cacharel, 1987).
