Delulu Extrait 50ml

Delulu is an escapee hideout filled with memories and joys of fading youth, the sunlight of idle days and never-ending romance. It’s a poetic and evocative capture of a fun and easy time slowly coming to an end. It is a mixture of conflicting nostalgy, oddness and bitterness of reality.

For the grown-up who doesn’t want to be grown-up. Each unique cap is made of used toys and plastic from the shores of Hong Kong encapsulated in epoxy resin.

IMPRESSIONS:
•    Melted candy in a jean pocket
•    A mad tea party, jam on the nose
•    Oversaturated garden, laying in the sun, doing nothing
•    Pool of tears, a gentle smile, an escape from tomorrow
•    A memory of your favourite toy you hope is still out there somewhere
•    Pack of crayons, paper, white glue, the whole day

NOTES
Top: Bergamot, Mandarin, Rhubarb, Cédrat
Middle: Strawberry jam, Raspberry, Blackcurrant, Rose oil Bulgaria, Olibanum
Base: Vétiver, Ambroxan, Musk, Sandalwood, Osmanthus

PERFUMER
David Chieze

HOW IT WEARS
Delulu opens bright and exciting, like the promise of your future when you’re young. A symphony of citrus flavours berry jam, which is made more tart and vegetal by rhubarb, adding what we’re not sure how to describe other than a “twang” to the fragrance. Rose and osmanthus round out the scent in the middle, adding body and richness, before you pick up the woods and musks in the dry down, which aren’t super prominent but ground and level the sweetness and juiciness of the other notes. As an extrait, Delulu lasts hours on the skin, and during the wear you’re imbued with a real sense of fun and liveliness – so what if it’s delusional!

LORE LOVES
Nostalgia is one of the most powerful feelings us humans are capable of, and we think Delulu captures it so well. It has the sweetness we all enjoyed as children, but it’s also infused with some doses of reality to bring us back to earth. The rhubarb in particular adds a unique, almost confusing edge to the fragrance which really sets it apart. The fragrance itself is magnificent, but we are also obsessed with the lids of Delulu. Repurposing what gave us joy in the past to something we can use in the present is the whole concept of the fragrance, and .Oddity has realised that right down to the design of the bottle.

ABOUT THE BRAND
Based in Hong Kong, .Oddity is a contemporary niche perfume house led by a design collective. Founded in 2022, the .Oddity fragrances display a unique interplay of visible and invisible arts, created with the aim of awakening emotions and associations deeply rooted in visual culture.
The .Oddity design collective are fascinated by the beauty of imperfections: raw corners, untouched nature, exposed structures, technical details, behind the scenes, overdoses and errors. The world as it is – messy, pure, artistic. Therefore, the inspiration for .Oddity’s fragrances can be found everywhere. Each image you see, each detail you touch is brought to life with. .Oddity’s synergetic combination of design and perfumery. Their fragrances are whimsical, eccentric, dramatic, and always expressive of the physical and emotional worlds we live in.
The two noses behind the brand are Mark Buxton and David Chieze. Buxton is a legend of niche perfumery who has created fragrances for Comme des Garçons, Le:Labo, as well as the iconic L’Air de Panache for Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel. Chieze is a young talent, well versed in chemistry and perfumery, who has created many fragrances for indie perfume houses.
.Oddity perfumes are crafted in small batches, using rare and rich ingredients, making them singular and unique in quality. Their bottles are designed to be kept from landfill – instead destined to live their lives as design objects even after the juice is finished. Each of their bottle caps is made from a repurposed material, suspended in epoxy resin, each in a unique colour and shape, meaning each cap is one of a kind.

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