Composed by Bertrand Duchaufour
If Clair is the bright side of an impossible encounter, Obscur enters through the kitchen, bar, and dark wooden hallway. MAJDA BEKKALI Fusion Sacrée - Obscur begins with rum and celery, and ends in caramel, resins, and coffee.
Rum, citron, sweet orange, and celery open the extrait in an unusually edible and aromatic way. Lavender and geranium add a tidier herbal frame, but celery maintains a green, almost salty irregularity.
Orange blossom, neroli, clove, cardamom, and carnation create a warm floral-spicy heart. Coffee feels like a dark bitterness that connects the alcoholic opening with the brown base.
Bertrand Duchaufour here also explores the clash of opposites and a fusion that constantly approaches but never fully completes. Every pleasant note gets an unusual partner that changes its meaning.
Benzoin, tolu, licorice, atlas cedar, sandalwood, vanilla, ambergris, opoponax, caramel, and musk build a dense finish. The sweetness is brown, woody, and resinous, with rum lingering like warmth in a glass.
Fusion Sacrée - Obscur is not a classic coffee gourmand. It is coffee with rum, celery, licorice, and caramelized resins — a sacred fusion that shows its stranger side in the dark.
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