Unconstrained Desire and Exulted Silence - Killer Vavoom and I am Darkness - Azman Perfumes. Husen Khan 2022
JJ Photography and Elena Zanotti - Peppermint Mirror Conjugation
A house that has marked itself out beyond so many in so short a time, I have been impressed by all their current offerings. Dubai based Husen Khan launched Azman Perfumes in 2021, it evolved from his original brand, Azman Oud created in 2016. Husen has undertaken to infuse his creations with the finest quality in both their components and his choice of collaborative perfumer for each release. This attention to detail and quality is underwritten in all the collection, a refined rarity with a cultured hand of discretion.
Each one of the collection speaks in volumes its own unique tale, Azman Perfumes was on my radar for a while and I was honoured to be asked by Husen if I would write their story, as ever if the perfumes drew me in and inspired words to rise. I have chosen, which I have to say was a deeply difficult choice for me, two, ‘Killer Vavoom’- Perfumer Miguel Matos and ‘I Am Darkness’ - Perfumer Nutt Wesshasartar to convey here in words, whisperings that fell from my wrist over time. As always words tumble and fall to the page as they may……
Dark Beauty Magazine
Dressed to kill, literally, here in Killer Vavoom, Osmanthus never ever coy to begin with reveals a coquettish side that is as shocking as it is revelatory. I am constantly fascinated by this perfume, it is compulsive, intruiging, always in vibrant dynamic juxtaposition. Harking from the era of decadence, early 20th century when the constraints of the Edwardian era were let loose in the outrageous explosion that was the ‘Roaring Twenties’…….Recall the raising of hemlines to reveal a pale ankle, just as shocking as this perfume!!! A chocolate lovers dream, the sinfulness of that most gourmand of treats, only in its 99% guise, wafts its tendrils throughout the spell cast on skin. Its temptations gift the omanthus a liberation. Permission granted, propriety thrown to the winds and with skirts flying, a wicked invitation written on lips.
Chocolate dances the Osmanthus out beyond the boundaries of floral timidity, lures it into a luxuriant exuberence and toys with its subtle animalic instincts, teasing them out into the brillance of the spotlight, embracing all its opposites with a guiding hand sinewed with strength. A player bedecked with the ultimate carnival mask, bestowing all manner of liberating factors, inhibitions unleased.
Sasha Luss 2. Vanyanis 3. Dark Beauty Magazine 4. Sylvia Makris
Dreamy encirclement round the floral heart is spellbinding, releasing all the classic femininity at the core of Killer Vavoom in a headlong rush of delirium, letting unexpected scents like vestments abandoned in a flush of heated desire where all reason escapes us. These florals, it seems have waited an eternity for this pairing, dreamed of it in restless nights and Miguel Matos, with his characteristic style and deft hand, of a vintage leaning with a contemporary avant-garde glove renders this possible. How it drips with a potency of longing, an intense and endless table of desires, laid out in banquet style from which to feast. A femme fatale incarnate, it is porcelain white, marble flesh encased in the sexiest black gown, revealing just enough to be elegantly discrete yet enough to intice. Begloved delicacy with a silken quality like the touch of a stocking on a sculpted carrera thigh, with eyes that burn with the yearning, flashing an unmistakeable invitation of intense temptation. Scattered along its pathway there is an elegance set to blaze with seduction. Killer Vavoom exudes sensuality in herculean swathes and undone, all in its wake helpless to resist, amid the piles of discarded outergarments that litter the chamber floor.
In its finale of heightened breathlessness it leaves, with a flourish upon the skin, warm, satiated encounters, the kiss of musky, animalic and sweet flushed bodies after consumation. It is daring, audacious, intense and highly unique, head turning and endowed with the zenith of seductive powers. This is the stunning decadence of another era reborn with a lethal dose of sexual tenacity…… More than attention, this garners admirers by the score, expect a crowd.
Vanitas 2. Killer Vavoom- Azman Perfumes 3. Josephine Cardin 4. Marta Bevaqua 5.Anne Hathaway - Marcus Piggott and Mert Atlas 6.Raphael Mercudo 7. Bernini 8. Pinterest
Top notes: Bergamot - Plum - Chocolate
Heart notes: Osmanthus - Iris - Rose - Jasmine - Ambrette
Base notes: Amber - Oakmoss - Patchouli - Musk - Leather - Vanilla
Pray - Rob Voodoo
I Am Darkness - An incense infused silence, the exquisite piercing of stillness felt when one enters a place of arrested time. An incense exploded by perfumer Nutt Wesshasartar into all its prisms, enveloping in its totality, this is nothing less than the Soul of incense. A moment suspended into a million droplets where past, present and future all coexist, step over thresholds bidden by the bright calling within of lighter citruses and florals of tropical hue. A calling to reconsider any previous incense before encountered. Precious notes held in sacred reverence for millenia waft laying upon you in richly laid overmantles, a cloak of cocconed connection with divinity. We become more than our mortal selves, cast under its protective atmosphere prepared to encounter the silence within in the presence of the higher ones. Here is ground honoured in sacrosanct murmurings and cast in eternity.
Stoneclad, entombed gatherings of all who passed through the portals, down steps worn in age and passage of the many seeking the moments grace, over flagstones warmed with the feet of all pilgrims who traversed in silent reverence, tendrils of floral lit smoke, calming the breath and slowing the macinations of the modern mind, transforming us beyond our physical body, drawing out from us, higher senses.
Reverence for a Mother - Honc UK 2. Violetta Markelou 3. That Life- St Amand de Coly, Danu Seith-Fyr 4. Kavyar
I am Darkness, contains all the comforting aspects of the dark, reminding us that there is within it, nothing to fear , the feelings we crave when held by those we love, in the moments between sleeping and waking, it gifts us indeed a scent of peace, so elusive yet so yearned for. It carries me aloft, over the threshold to a place of infinite silence where there is an envelopment in dark arms and an exhalation of relief escapes the confines of my body. There is , we are reminded within its light and dark enfolding, a place of cossetted peace set apart from the physical realms. Within its seeming complexitity lies a profound simplicity, I pine for with all my being. I am Darkness touches me with an exquisite spirituality, so lacking today. It is nothing short of beautiful in the extreme, an incense to command all others and encompass them in its embrace. Out beyond the confines of fear, is a haven. Carved within darkness is written light.
I am Darkness- Azman Perfumes 2. On how it was to Feel- Sachi 3. Sleepy Building - Honcuk
Top notes: Fir - Bergamot - Black Pepper - Fruity - Grapefruit - Incense
Heart notes: Cambodian Oud - Cananga - Jasmine - Coffee - Frangipani - White Champaca
Base notes: Amyris - Frankincense - Labdanum - Oakmoss
Husen Baba - Founder and Creative of Azman Perfumes. 2. Miguel Matos - Perfumer for Killer Vavoom. 3. Nutt Wesshasatar - Perfumer for I Am Darkness.
As a Postscript I must add that the other two perfumes in the current collection, Two Minutes After the Kiss and Majoon are as entrancing. Samples were kindly gifted to me by Husen, my words are mine alone.
I also understand that there are new releases by Christian Carbonnel coming soon!!!!
You can find the collection of Azman Perfumes here -
https://www.azmanperfumes.com/
https://www.azmanperfumes.com/collections/deluxe-bottle/products/killer-vavoom
https://www.azmanperfumes.com/collections/deluxe-bottle/products/i-am-darkness
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