Flirty Cassis

Somewhere deep in the woods, the air turns sweet with wild berries and warm chocolate. 

Dark blackcurrant ripens along the forest edge, tart and juicy, while caramelized sugar drifts in like the last bite of dessert. The chocolate is rich but never heavy, folded into whipped vanilla cream that softens every edge. Underneath, mossy woods and a brush of amber stay warm and grounded, like sunlight slipping through the trees at dusk. Soft musk wraps around it all, playful and a little teasing, the feeling of someone smiling just for the fun of it. This is a mood for easy afternoons and flirtatious evenings, for showing the lighthearted, charming side that loves a little mischief. Sweet and earthy at once, it feels like a happy secret shared between two people.

Scent Trunk commissions its fragrances one at a time from independent noses working across the world, and prints their names on the page beside the work. It looks for cultural heterogeneity and industry experience, and works with the self-taught as readily as the academically trained, the bootstrapping entrepreneur as readily as the corporate nose. Each year it also picks unconventional noses, chefs or writers or musicians with an exceptional creative streak.

Most releases name one material as their focus and one place as their provenance, and each carries a signed passage in which the person who made it says what they were after. Winternights is hay cured on Swedish poles. Tears and Smiles is pineapple cake and oolong in Taiwan. Stroopwafel is a canal house in Amsterdam with tulips on the table. The material and the place come first, and the writing follows them.