Graphite
Dry pencil, chalk and wood-shaving impressions, recalling the texture of an artist’s tools.
The smell of a sharpened pencil is the memory at the centre of Graphite. Conceived through an encounter between scent and colour, it turns attention to familiar drawing materials: powder, shavings and the dry surfaces of an artist's desk.
Graphite-like mineral shades meet a chalky softness and the plain warmth of cut wood. The interest lies in differences of dry texture, rather than in an emphatic sweetness. Together those impressions suggest the tools used to make a drawing.
It is a composition suited to quiet moments with paper and pencil, carrying something of their tactile simplicity into fragrance.
