Dead Air Extrait 10ml

PLEASE NOTE: .Oddity is in the process of updating the packaging for their 10ml sizes. This product is sold as a blank vial with no branding or product information on it. If you have any questions about this, please contact us at hello@loreperfumery.com.au. 

Dead Air is a macabre fantasy of decadent shadows and drama, unfolding from a fresh salty breeze to the deep dark underwater with blurry black tones, exuberant flora and a binding touch of wood. A truly theatrical spectacle to the nose.

Every unique bottle cap is made from charcoal suspended in epoxy resin.

IMPRESSIONS:
•    Chinese apothecary, roots, salt, soil
•    A salty breeze by the sea at night, a faded memory
•    Wet rocks, fallen leaves, ripe fruits, burnt sugar, velvet void
•    Dusty stage drapes in a theatre, a reflection in a hazy mirror
•    Loud music in an empty room, acoustic silence
•    Blurry black and white picture, an old photo album, light decay

NOTES
Top: Violet leaf Absolute, Davana, Freesia
Middle: Narcisse Absolute, Lovage, Cist Absolute, Salt Accord
Base: Dates, Oakwood, Opoponax Resin, Vetiver, Patchouli, Cedar Atlas

PERFUMER
Mark Buxton

HOW IT WEARS
Opening with unusual florals and greenery – the yellow warmth of freesia and the headiness of narcissus mixing with davana’s tea like quality, the almost fennel or celery-like greenery of lovage and the crisp freshness of violet leaf – as soon as it’s dried down a bit Dead Air dives under the sea’s surface. But it’s not the open ocean, it’s sea water suspended in a cave. Salt, opoponax, oakwood, vetiver and cistus create an earthen feeling like sand mixed with soil. The most prominent note in the dry down though is the date, like brown caramelised sugar but with a slight fruity edge which is perfectly complemented by the sweet earthiness of patchouli. The sea salt lingers too, adding a slightly mineral quality to the overall composition as it wears. As an extrait, Dead Air will last hours and hours on the skin, and leave an intriguing trail behind the wearer.

LORE LOVES
We can safely say we’ve never experienced a fragrance like Dead Air before. It’s so experimental, and even though we’ve highlighted the notes we can pick up above, it has this kind of hazy feeling to it, where everything appears vaguely and in a blur – every time you smell it you pick up something slightly different. It definitely smells like a dug up root system, but also like a wooden shack by the sea, salted and dried by the sun. A fabulous fragrance for those attracted to the vegetal and the mineral (but maybe not the animal, wink!).

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.