Sexual Healing
A secret blend of honey and ginger meets dry tobacco absolute, resting on subtle vanilla and amber.
Perfumer: Christophe Raynaud
Marvin Gaye's soft, sensual voice on Sexual Healing, his first single after leaving Motown, released in 1982, is where this scent begins. Christophe Raynaud took on the challenge of turning the texture of that voice into perfume.
It opens with a secret blend of honey and ginger. The thick sweetness of honey is cut by ginger's small bite, so the sweetness never turns heavy. Beneath it, tobacco absolute brings a dry, leafy texture that contrasts clearly with the stickiness of the honey.
The base is a subtle vanilla with amber. Vanilla softly wraps the dryness of the tobacco, and amber adds warmth, letting sweet and dry melt together in a low, close register rather than a raised voice.
