A work by Alberto Morillas released in 2018, Dark Lord “Ex Tenebris Lux” is Kilian’s gentleman of the night: an opening of bergamot and pepper, a jasmine drenched in rum, accords of leather and vetiver, between the shadow and light named by its Latin subtitle, in the house’s family of The Smokes.
The house picks out three notes, pepper, jasmine and vetiver, one per tier. It describes a dandyish entrance of bergamot and pepper, a jasmine drenched in rum and accords of leather and strong vetiver.
Rum and davana
Chemist in the Bottle smells two peppers, Sichuan and Bourbon, sharpened by bergamot. Davana, dry and peppery, recalls immortelle; rum makes the perfume more liqueur-like, and sambac jasmine loses its narcotic richness.
Leather and cypriol
In the base, Chemist in the Bottle describes a black, luxurious leather, moving from the interior of a vintage car to the inside of an expensive bag, deepened by cypriol, with cedar, a rooty vetiver and patchouli.
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