Burning Ben is a fragrance born of shadow and doubt, a composition inspired by the fascinating and disconcerting character in the South Korean film Burning. Like Ben, this fragrance advances masked, beguiling, and full of promise, before revealing darker, more elusive depths. It captures the ambivalence of a man at once charming and disturbing, whose sleek beauty conceals a fascination with fire, destruction, and silent power.
From the opening, a gourmand and intoxicating fruity note seduces the senses, an almost innocent, deceptive sweetness, like a too-perfect smile. Then comes the captivating warmth of cognac, suave and heady, which settles in like a discreet luxury, a refined taste to be savored behind closed doors. Little by little, the accords become denser, more serious: the deep and animal oud wood unites with the smoky and nervous vetiver, drawing an olfactory silhouette that is both elegant and menacing.
In the base, leather, amber, patchouli, and incense unfold a carnal, mysterious, almost hypnotic trail. We perceive the contradictions of a character in chiaroscuro: the nobility of an appearance, the tension of a silence, the aroma of a secret that we guess but cannot reach. Burning Ben is a perfume of controlled dissonance, a play between light and smoldering fire, between seduction and danger.
Wearing Burning Ben is like slipping into the skin of an indefinable stranger, a being on the border between reality and fantasy. A fragrance for those who like to be perceived without being guessed.
