Mixed Emotions

Mixed Emotions appeared in 2021 in Byredo's catalog. Ben Gorham is the perfumer, and the formula is offered in Eau de Parfum concentration, in 50 ml and 100 ml bottles.

Citrus opening

Bergamot opens the accord with a fruity, almost sweet facet, and a clear freshness. This citrus is obtained by expression of the zest, a method that preserves the lively character of its peel.

Teas, blackcurrant and violet

The heart brings together two teas and yerba mate. Tea brings freshness and greenness, black tea smoky, woody and leathery accents, yerba mate tones of hay and tobacco. Blackcurrant adds a sour, sulfurous greenness, violet leaf an earthy, mossy herbaceousness, violet a waxy powderiness.

Papyrus and birch

Papyrus lays down a vegetal dryness that evokes old paper. Birch, whose distilled bark yields a tar long used to scent leathers, carries here warmth, smoke and leather.

Leaves and stems

The green quality retained as a family of Mixed Emotions runs through the greenness of blackcurrant, tea and violet, and through the herbaceousness of violet leaf. This register seeks the smell of stems and crushed leaves; the hay of yerba mate and the vegetal papyrus extend it toward the dry.

What the label declares

Limonene, abundant in citrus peels, and citral, with its lemony odor, are among the known constituents of bergamot, as is linalool, floral and slightly woody. Geraniol recalls rose, while isoeugenol evokes a spice close to clove.