Dark Lord - Ex Tenebris Lux
A spare, three-stroke composition: a flicker of bergamot at the top, rum at the heart, atlas cedar at the base.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 accords.
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- Rum70
- Soft Spicy50
- Woody50
- Leather
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Rum
- Atlas Cedar
- Leather
- Pepper
- Vetiver
- Jasmine
- Bergamot
By the editors · 2 min readA spare, three-stroke composition: a flicker of bergamot at the top, rum at the heart, atlas cedar at the base. The bergamot reads more like a brief lift than a developed citrus stage, present mainly to keep the rum from feeling syrupy.
The rum-cedar pairing is the whole perfume. The booze stays warm and slightly burnt rather than candied, and the cedar — pencil-shaving dry, faintly smoky — gives it a structural backbone instead of letting it slump into a gourmand. There is no real floral or spice middle. It wears linear and close-skinned after the first hour, with a quiet woody finish. A statement of restraint, more than a fully developed arc.
Scent twins
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