Lupus & Vega
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Narcotic Woods is an oil-based mukhallat in the Eastern tradition, where top, heart, and base aren’t clean steps, but a slow dissolve. Here, the florals don’t sit above the woods, they blend with them. The resins don’t “finish” the perfume, they become the skin.
It begins in a shimmer of bergamot and Moroccan neroli, a bright, slightly bitter-golden opening like sunlight (opening accord). Almost at once, the deeper current rises: Mysore sandalwood (buttery, sacred, soft-edged from resident artisan AlHind Oud) and two expressions from woods: smooth eaglewood essential oil and the darker, more textured and romantic leadership of Laos oud (core). Together, they create a core that feels both polished and feral. The woods aren’t smoky; they’re alive, with heat and shadow.
Then the narcotic bloom unfurls: white champaca, creamy and incandescent, and jasmine sambac (natural, heart-cut) with its humid, green-fruity richness. Imagine the ethereal, full-spectrum Blue lotus CO₂ extraction weaving through this floral darkness like purple silk under moonlight, velvety and enigmatic in the most captivating way. It is less a “flower note” than a dream-state. As the florals expand, they don’t brighten the blend; they deepen it, turning the woods sensual.
In the blurred middle-to-base, where this style truly lives, guaiacwood brings a quiet, embered warmth. Palo santo adds a resinous, citrus-woody lift that feels spiritual without becoming “air freshener.” Organic cistus (labdanum essential oil)provides the sticky, ambery, sun-baked resin backbone, like warm lacquer on wood. Finally, a veil of Chatham Shores grey ambergris tincture does not announce itself so much as edit the sillage: smoothing edges, adding a saline animal warmth, and making the whole thing feel expensive and addictive.
Narcotic Woods wears like an evening ritual: polished sandalwood and dark oud wrapped in white florals and blue-lotus velvet, then sealed with resin, balsam, and the whisper of ambergris. The longer it sits on you, the less you can tell where “heart” ends and “base” begins—which is exactly the point.
This is a rare, must-have olfactory experience.
This is available in the following sizes: 1 gram and 2.5 grams.
