Mind Games | Kingside | Extrait de Parfum Kingside is an opulent, highly sophisticated oriental floral-gourmand fragrance from the luxury house Mind Games, launched in 2025 as part of their Perfumer Extraordinaire collection. Crafted by perfumer David Apel, the fragrance serves as a liquid tribute to quiet power, refined elegance, and calculated strategy, taking direct artistic inspiration from the chess board. It is built around a striking contrast of rich, milky textures and warm, intoxicating undertones. It opens with a bold, mouthwatering canopy of creamy pistachio gelato and vibrant cardamom oil, sharpened by a bright flash of grapefruit zest. It shifts smoothly into a heart of hazelnut flower, amber rum, and pink peony petals before grounding itself on a deeply smooth, comforting baseline of warm tonka bean absolute, almond milk, and rich Peru balsam. Olfactory Pyramid: Top Notes: Creamy Pistachio, Cardamom Oil, Grapefruit Zest Heart Notes: Hazelnut Flower, Amber Rum, Pink Peony Petals Base Notes: Tonka Bean Absolute, Almond Milk, Peru Balsam Vibe: Intensely nutty-creamy, boozy with ambered rum facets, softly floral, and opulently warm with resinous balsam.Common QuestionsWhat are the notes in Mind Games Kingside? Pistachio, cardamom and grapefruit at the top, hazelnut, rum and peony in the heart, and tonka bean, almond milk and Peru balsam in the base. Composed by David Apel.Is it a gourmand fragrance? Yes, a nutty gourmand: pistachio and hazelnut with rum and almond milk, lifted by grapefruit and cardamom.Should I buy the 100mL blind? At full-bottle prices, try the 1.5mL sample first.More from Mind Games: Queening, Knight's Tour and Castling.
