Debaser In Bloom
A remix of Debaser built on the remembered smell of a freshly unwrapped cassette, its fig opened into gardenia and cream.
Perfumer: David Seth Moltz
Debaser began with preteen years spent hanging out with cool older kids, a group bound by music in which the Pixies reigned supreme. David Seth Moltz remembers getting Doolittle on cassette tape, and recalls that tapes back then smelled distinctly of grapey orange blossom, put down to a mysterious mix of polyester, magnetics and lubricants.
Buy the latest tape at the record shop, skate home fast, tear off the wrapping: that familiar aroma was an unconscious precursor to new music. Debaser In Bloom reworks the cult favourite the way one reworks a beloved song.
The nostalgic aroma of a tape accord is amplified by tart white currant, gardenia and cream, and the fig turns into flowers. The intent is to render beauty from the mundane, with an easy spring-to-summer vibration.
