Elixir Charnel Oriental Brulant
Oriental Brûlant distills Christine Nagel and Sylvaine Delacourte's Elixir Charnel concept to its essence: tangerine over almond over vanilla-styrax-tonka — five notes, no detours.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 accords.
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- Vanilla65
- Sweet55
- Almond50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Tangerine
- Almond
- Tonka Bean
- Vanilla
- Styrax
By the editors · 2 min readOriental Brûlant distills Christine Nagel and Sylvaine Delacourte's Elixir Charnel concept to its essence: tangerine over almond over vanilla-styrax-tonka — five notes, no detours. The tangerine opening is brief and bright before almond takes the heart, warm and slightly bitter, somewhere between marzipan and amaretto. Styrax and tonka bean in the base add a soft resinous smokiness that prevents the sweetness from becoming cloying.
Now discontinued, it belongs to a category of fragrances that trusted simplicity — the kind that either disappears on skin or becomes intimately yours. Those who found it tend to find nothing else quite like it.
Scent twins
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.
