Top notes are industrial: 10-year-old handrails, Persephone's festering shampoo suds, burnt arthropods on fluorescent bulbs, made-in-China cable ties, spearmint dental floss and expired credit cards being thrown into a shredding machine. The cacophony of distressing smells gives way to a muted freshness, as if an oil refinery had been washed away by a cleansing tsunami leaving in its wake the smell of decay and mortality, but also of earth and fertility. Less assertive than its opening, the middle notes are pleasant and pastoral. I smell a field of unripe bananas, the vegetal scent of an Asian greengrocer, a single passionfruit behind trampled by an Iberian piglet, and cilantro. Its crisp edges are rounded by the mineral qualities of the base notes — isotonic drinks splashed over tarmac, miso in a wooden bowl, Arvo Pärt's tintinnabulati, old wristwatches, sandalwood and soy bean.
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