High Desert

High Desert opens with bright grapefruit and peppery coriander cutting through dry cedar, then settles into a sage-shadowed heart where herbal earthiness deepens. Vetiver and cade oil ground the development in leather and smoke, while labdanum adds warmth beneath birch tar's austere, almost medicinal edge—the whole thing feels parched and mineral, like standing in scrubland at dusk when the day's heat still radiates from stone.