Naked Dance is an olfactory impression of our lives at home, where we move through the space filled with our attachments, memories and comforts in bliss, where we have the intimate liberty to be ourselves.
It is a warm, sensual perfume with milky, woody and powdery notes that live together as a second skin. Every unique bottle cap is made from mixed woods suspended in epoxy resin.
IMPRESSIONS:
• Milky, woody, powdery, a little bitter
• Rice powder, flour and wood
• Oil paintings, temple dust and buttery lily
• Warm, intimate, comforting, sun-warmed skin
• Musky, buttery, slightly leathery with almonds
• Fresh bread, forgotten flowers and clay.
NOTES
Top: Orange blossom, Bergamot, Green tea
Middle: Rice, Clay, Lily, Iris, a drop of Turkish Rose
Base: White musk, Incense, Sandalwood, Vetiver, Tonka, Guaiac Wood
PERFUMER
Mark Buxton
HOW IT WEARS
Because Naked Dance is an extrait de parfum with a high parfum oil concentration, the way it behaves is quite different depending on who’s wearing it, but our impression of it is as follows: it begins crisp and clean, the brightness of citrus combining with green tea and florals. As it wears, it gets more powdery and fluffy; the rice, clay and iris smoothing out the other notes, rendering the composition more skin-like and creamy. The dry down is where things really differ depending on the skin of the wearer. On some people the incense turns peppery and spicy, combining with the earthy vetiver and guaiac wood for a borderline animalic scent. On others it retains its cleanliness but gets more earthy, the clay note staying prominent, bolstered by creamy sandalwood and white musk that together kind of smell like a clean leather. As an extrait, Naked Dance has excellent longevity, but moderate projection as it’s intended to be more of a skin scent.
LORE LOVES
Naked Dance has managed to capture the beauty in the mundane – your favourite jumper, your go-to coffee mug, warm bedsheets, skin to skin contact. The little things that give your life meaning, but the ones you often take for granted. We think it’s extra special that it behaves so differently on different skin types, as everyone moves through the world so differently. As skin scents go, Naked Dance is a really human-feeling one. It’s warm, creamy, milky, and musky in a slightly dirty way. We are completely enthralled by this fragrance and think you will be too!
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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