The Lobster
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Composed by Mark Buxton
Two people are allowed to fall in love only when they escape from a society that prescribes love by the rulebook. MOTH AND RABBIT The Lobster smells of their forest: cold water, wet wood, wild flowers, and an animal danger that paradoxically provides shelter.
Green and leafy notes open the composition wet and dark, with muguet du bois leaving a pale floral trail through the forest. Cold water gives the landscape an almost cinematic distance.
Mark Buxton starts from cinematography and the feeling of a couple restricted by rules, yet in love. The floral bouquet represents the society they left, the new one they found, and the one they will have to leave again.
Cypriol, cedar, myrrh, and arnica lead towards fenugreek, animalic tones, and humus. The scent of humus here is not a joke but an earthy, salty-warm texture that enhances the strange corporeality of the forest.
On the skin, the water slowly recedes, and the wood, animal warmth, and moss become denser. If you want a romantic floral perfume or pure forest freshness, The Lobster will be too wet, dark, and twisted for you.
In the end, moss remains on cold cedar, with the scent of humus and wild flowers in the shade — love has found warmth, but the forest still knows that the rules have not disappeared.
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