Extrait de Parfum

Detroit in the 80s.

A cocktail of raspberry-forward juicy red fruit punctuates the room with a foggy ray of light. You can still smell the factory that was here. You can smell the production of plastic auto components in a room now enlivened by bodies. Bodies warm like amber and tonka, moving at 130 bpm to tight, machine-like rhythms in the dark. But it’s not a sad trap of nostalgia or a soul-less pulse of the past. It’s a collective reworking of the site of production. The thing we produce and celebrate now is collective reanimation of the very spaces designed to alienate us. The DJ cuts in a Drexciya track — pulsating, taking us deeper into an underground (underwater) world of earthy, woody tones. IYKYK.

NOTES

bergamot
pink pepper
red fruits
sage
saffron
spanish rockrose
suede
patchouli
lavender
jasmine
tonka bean
leather
amber
sandalwood
incense

United States, 2023

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