mark buxton
Editor’s note pending — every credited perfumer eventually gets a written profile here.
The compositions
I Want
To Break
City Jungle
Fabulous 2 - Dalissime
Anthracite pour l'Homme
Comme des Garcons 2 Silver Words
Comme des Garcons 2 Man
The opening strikes with crisp mint cut through by warm nutmeg—an unexpected cold-hot contrast that feels both medicinal and grounding.
Around Midnight
Mira-Bai
Glitter
Comme des Garcons 2
The opening is sharp and austere—a medicinal flash of incense smoke cut with bitter spice, as though someone struck a match near a mortuary cooler.
Into the Blue
Lamar
Lamar opens with the fruity citrus burst that signals Aventus-adjacent territory — pineapple, apple, bergamot — but cardamom pulls it immediately toward something more Eastern and considered.
Hot Leather
So Givenchy
Lancetti Homme
XS Extreme Girl
Comme des Garsons 3
A Day in My Life
Samba Natural Man Perfumer's Workshop
Samba Natural Man
Passion de l’Amour
The Virgin Suicides
Giordani Man
Diamond Musk
Passion de l'Amour Limited Edition
Cherry Garden
Spiritual Healing
Comme des Garcons
The opening arrives like a sudden cloud of spice-shop air—cinnamon and cardamom in dry, almost medicinal concentration, with clove adding a dentist's-office sharpness that feels deliberately confrontational.
V/S Homme
Emerald Reign
Dreaming With Ghosts
Emotional Drop
Sounds & Visions
Black Angel
Love is in the Air
Holiday Signature
Black XS for Her
Black XS for Her opens with a crisp snap of pink pepper that feels almost carbonated—bright and fizzy rather than hot.
Dalissime
Dalissime is a concentrated explosion of ripe stone fruit — pineapple, peach, apricot, and plum arriving simultaneously in the opening, lychee and raspberry adding tropical and berry registers.
Sleeping with Ghosts
Only Givenchy
Wood and Absinth
The opening of clary sage arrives as a sharp herbaceous strike—green, almost medicinal, with a faint metallic edge that suggests the wormwood of its name.
Cafe-Cafe Puro
My Givenchy Dream
Holiday by House Of Sillage
Sexual Healing
Lancetti Femme
Nouez Moi
Wood Absinth
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Devil In Disguise
Laguna
The opening bursts with ripe, almost candied fruit—pineapple and raspberry lead, backed by plum and peach, with grapefruit adding a bright citrus edge that keeps it from collapsing into pure sweetness.