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The brief
Not the bar at midnight — the bar at six, when the wood is wet, the glasses are cold and nobody has arrived. Bright and dark at once, which is a hard pair of instructions.
Six Heures du Soir
A bar counter being wiped down
2 reviews~6h reported
Citrus peel, damp wood and a trace of tobacco. The half hour before a room fills up.
In stock — dispatched within two working days
- Longevity
- 5–6 hours
- Sillage
- Moderate throughout
- Season
- All year
- Perfumer
- Aurèle Kestenbaum, 2024
Every order includes two 2ml samples of your choosing. Complimentary shipping above €150. Unopened bottles may be returned within 14 days.
The composition
Top
First ten minutes
Bitter orange · Juniper · Cold steel
Heart
The next two hours
Wet oak · Tobacco leaf · Cardamom
Base
What stays
Cedar · Grey amber · Clean musk
How it was made
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The material
Bitter orange rather than sweet gives the opening its edge, and it is held up longer than citrus usually survives by a juniper CO2 that shares the same volatile band. The wet oak is a birch tar fraction diluted to a tenth of the level that would read as smoke.
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On skin
Bright for forty minutes, then it turns and stays turned — wood and a faint sweetness of tobacco leaf that never becomes a cigar.
Worn by
4.5
- 6h on skin
My everyday bottle now
Sharp enough for the morning, warm enough for the evening. The only one of theirs I have finished.
- 5h on skin
Short, as advertised
Five hours and it is gone. They say so on the page, so I cannot complain, and I keep the bottle in my bag.
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