SPITE EAU DE TOILETTE

Eau de Toilette

Spite was born out of frustration. Perfumer Carter Weeks Maddox had a formula almost completed for a classical rose perfume that was vintage-influenced, took itself rather seriously, and was full of animalic growl. But something about it wasn't working correctly, even after he'd spent months fine-tuning it. So one night, angry, he grabbed two molecules - one he loved, another he hated — and shot a whole pipette full of each into the beaker he'd been using. And Spite was born.

Spite is a rose that is not a rose, full of ashy orris butter, green angelica and watery violet leaf which combine to hold the rose's tendency to smell bombastic and romantic underneath a moody layer of rolling fog.

New growth sandalwood and frankincense appear in the base to smooth out the composition — and jacketing the whole formula are those two molecules Carter added to the formula at the eleventh hour, one that, along with castoreum, brings a classic leather aspect to the fragrance, while the other delivers scalded sugar.

Composition:

• Angelica, Violet Leaf, Smoke
• Orris Butter, Rose
• Caramel, Frankincense, Leather, Sandalwood

Perfumer: Cater Weeks Maddox, 2020

inci list: alcohol denat., fragrance (parfum), may contain any of the following: amyl cinnamal, amyl cinnamyl alcohol, anise alcohol, benzyl alcohol, benzyl benzoate, benzyl cinnamate, benzyl salicylate, cinnamal, cinnamyl alcohol, citral, citronellol, coumarin, eugenol, farnesol, geraniol, hexyl cinnamate, hydroxycitronellal, isoeugenol, limonene, linalool, hydroxyisohexyl 3-cyclohexene carboxaldehyde, methyl-2 octynoate, alpha-isomethyl ionone, evernia prunastri (oakmoss) extract, evernia furfuracea (treemoss) extract