NAUTICAL, GREEN, BALSAMIC My father worked in Singapore's marine industry. From Clifford Pier, he took small boats out to the larger ships moored off the southern shore. Early departures, wet docks, sea-worn wood drying under the equatorial sun. Dockside cigarettes on lunch breaks, and a briny breeze that clings to cotton shirts and calloused hands. Cucumber and fenugreek open the scent with a cool, salty-wet vegetal freshness. Violet leaf adds a metallic-green snap, like seawater kissed with green. Dry cedar and sticky labdanum build the texture of sunbaked planks, shrouded by the lingering haze of smoky tobacco absolute. TOP Cucumber, Fenugreek (India) MIDDLE Violet Leaf (Egypt), Clary Sage (France) BASE Cedar Texas (America), Labdanum (Spain), Tobacco (Bulgaria), Ambrette Seed (Peru), Tonka Bean (Brazil)
