Full of contradictions

“How many times, dear God, have I not longed to be able to attack the sun, snatch it out of the sky, create a general darkness, or use that star to ignite the world." Marquis de Sade“As a creator of perfume, how could I open my perspective, imagine beyond my limitations? A very personal question. The cistus! One of my paradoxes. One of my gray areas.I have always recoiled from the cistus, I’ve avoided it or hidden it under thick layers of vanilla and amber as a way of escaping it. This is why I have made myself confront a radical formula: the cistus, exposed, and in all its states.” Quentin Bisch, perfumer. I love the idea of this. Confronting something you find disagreeable and coming to terms with it. Pleasure and pain. To me it’s dark but light, dirty but clean, disgusting but appealing, sexy but chaste, hellish but heavenly. Labdanum resin is all of these things at once and that’s what makes this perfume so beautiful…or ugly depending on your preferences.