Danu Seith-Fyr is a well-respected fragrance writer, critic, and consultant for Fragrances of the World. For our Expert Perspective series, Danu chose two Sarah Baker fragrances.
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"Some things sit within and simmer away, just under the daily facade, a power, little used yet somehow so necessary. It is a latent edge of danger, that calls us to act but also to bide our time and wait out the tough stuff, for a moment that will arrive, the right moment to act. A moment that changes everything and liberates us from a stifled existence. Vengeance, revenge, can be swift and obvious yet in its most powerful form, surprising and unexpected, softly steathful, a step by step, calculated bombshell hidden under agreeable disguise.
Sarah Baker always delivers a dramatic scenario along with her creations, she embodies them, feminine yet with an undeniable strength you cannot miss, one-liners delivered with such precision, their knife-edge quality leaves you breathless and in no doubt that this woman means business.
Peach's Revenge from Sarah Baker Perfumes - Chris Maurice, grabbed my attention even before its release, I am not usually a peach fan, as far as perfumes go, but this was a completely different take on this particular fruit. it is a wild and contemporary ride upon succulent seductiveness, the slow, lingering trace of manicured fingertips arresting the juicy peach trail escaping from lips. Once bitten, never forgotten. Nothing of fruity innocence here. Peach's Revenge tore without mercy through my fuzzy, girly preconceptions and I was left satiated, on the floor, wondering what I had encountered. Yes, there is the familiar scent here, a loaded ripeness with skin stretched to bursting point, take it and it promises an overflow of delicious sensations. Pierce the skin and there is an inundation. This is ‘adult-only’ territory artfully disguised in swathes of creamy fruit, a danger under layers of creaminess, I find it a temptation veiled, like all the best desserts and the wildest women!
Its Revenge is in its covertness, the peach and fruit departure luring us into something addictive and desirous, under its overt fruit departure are hints of its sexual strength, wafts of skin drenched heat and copious rivulets of juice. God’s, we know it is dangerous and unwise yet we yearn and yield anyway. It drips from every pore with mouthwatering anticipation and leads us on an undoing of grand proportions. Peaches Revenge unhinges me in her seduction, there is no resistance. Danger lurks in the most unlikely places. The silent promise rendering you under a Vanilla that has been whipped into an inch of its sweet life, revealing nuances, textural and visceral, silken, smooth creaminess, purring on flushed skin with the grown up twist of an Amaretto on the rocks. Nothing is ever as it seems and the most delicate flirtation can hide intentions of other ilk. Sarah and Chris have drawn out all of Peaches hidden whispers, shocking and mouthwatering, you just want more and more. It is a feast of Peaches and cream drizzled with temptation and shocking hints of sensual vanilla and musky pleasure.
Velvet Vendetta, Perfumer - Margaux Le Paih Guerin, is an all-together different beast, simmering in darkened places, seething with intent, the scent of long-planned vengeance. Meticulous and messy, yet with a goal. It growls in a voice that is so devastatingly attractive yet wrought with menace. This is a scent that suffers no fools and takes no prisoners. Raw sexuality shot through with dashes of jeopardy, where Peaches Revenge was all feminine layers hiding lurking perils, just out of sight, Velvet vendetta is in your face, dont mess with me ( well if you are daring enough, please put out of your mind the fate of the male mantis), you will just get what you deserve, eventually, in karmic style.
In its smoky corners there is the sweet scent of blatant sensuality, leather clad and brandishing the tools of dominance, really, honestly you haven't come here to be sweetly seduced, here is where justice is served and ‘your just desserts’ are on the table. You may enter into that underground jazz club, a haze of smoke and air laden with sweat and purpose, purpose that hangs on every word, purpose that has waited out its pain and is now finely honed. Somewhere in that dimly lit corner you catch a glimpse of a lit cigarette, glowing on the inhalation like a warning beacon, beckoning you . It is the scent of the silent screams of betrayal, all gunsmoke and darkened heart notes, singularly directed into meticulous objective, charged with experience and knowledge.
Curled around a glass of finest bourbon, perfectly manicured, scarlet tipped slender fingers, you are drawn like the proverbial moth. How time passes in an instant when one is bewitched, she smells of everything you desire, everything you have ever yearned for, yet something on the edges feels slightly awry. It seems you have been anticipated, she has been waiting for this moment. There is a familiar lilt to her voice on certain words, hushed as she speaks, a sweeter scent that you have known, yet matured with grittier Incense and Vanilla girded with darker aspects. You thought I was just to forgive you, your trepasses? Smile sweetly and tell you your errors were nothing? How little you think you know me.
So….. she drawls, in shades of viscous molasses and bourbon dripped words, ‘you came’. She seems different, a light in her eyes, comprehension and a plan, the Plan!!! Concocted on inner storm wrought nights, alone with the shards of lies.
An encounter that had lain in ambush, she has fired the proverbial gun, knocked you to my knees, stripped your bank account, sold the house out from under you and keyed the car. Wisps of gunpowder sparks and the charred wood left after the bonfire of treachery. The sound of her stilettos receding into the dark alley was the last thing you saw. Velvet Vendetta is all jeopardy and comeuppance wrapped in an elegance of raw power. It lingers in triumph after the execution and redressment, a satisfying, resinous softness in closure."
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