Encounters

Encounters opens with a bright, slightly spiced citrus—bergamot and orange lifting cassis into something almost herbal, lavender threading through like cool silk. The middle softens into iris and rose rounded by cinnamon's warmth, angelica adding an earthy, almost medicinal depth. As it settles, sandalwood and cedarwood form a creamy base while castoreum and agarwood weave in animalic shadow—resinous, intimate—anchored by Peru balsam's vanilla-like sweetness and benzoin's soft amber glow. The composition moves from brisk and aromatic to sensual and grounding.