Note Pyramid
Brooklyn
Bond No. 9 Brooklyn Eau de Parfum 50ml is the most masculine reading of the city in the whole collection, and it was composed by Laurice Rahmé herself rather than farmed out, which is rare enough to be worth saying.
It opens dry. Grapefruit supplies the bitter, rindy side of citrus rather than the sweet side, and cardamom arrives almost immediately with its cool, husky spice, the smell of a crushed pod rather than of ground powder. There is no fruit sweetness anywhere in the first ten minutes. Then it turns green and resinous. Cypress brings the still, dark evergreen smell of a hedge standing in full sun, geranium leaves add a crushed, slightly metallic greenness, and juniper berry sharpens the middle with its cool gin bite. It is a bracing stretch, more like a walk than a perfume, and it is what people who love this bottle are actually buying.
The base pays it off. Cedarwood is dry and pencil sharp, guaiac wood brings a smoky, faintly tarry sweetness, and leather sits between the two giving the finish a worn, lightly polished quality. The trail is dark and serious and it lasts into the evening without ever turning heavy. Cool weather suits it, night suits it better still, and while it is aimed at men the greenness makes it easy for anyone to wear. The 50ml bottle is the sensible way in. It appeared in 2008 and took a FiFi award two years after that.
Laurice Rahme founded this New York house in 2003, following spells at Lancome, at Annick Goutal in the United States and at Creed. Nine Bond Street in NoHo gave it both its address and its name, and the catalogue reads as a map of the city.
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