Geza Schoen Eau de Toilette

When given the opportunity to go rogue, most perfumers might attempt to make the loudest, wildest, or most synthetically energetic fragrance of their career- but what if you've already made your whole career out of breaking the rules? In the case of visionary modernist perfumer Geza Schoen, you actually take a step towards naturalism, creating a fragrance that reinterprets pink pepper in the context of the entire tree, from berries to bark to leaves. Opening with a fresh, fruit-inflected top that merges a potent blast of pink pepper with juicy citrus and delicate, sweet and gently powdery cassis, the fragrance then adds impressive aromatic depth, with rich fir and green juniper that lend a deeply natural airy freshness. Even the warm, woodsy base balances out the dose of Iso-E Super- this is still Geza Schoen, after all- with creamy sandalwood and delicate moss, and even a dose of animalic musks to complete the illusion of a living tree with an entire ecosystem inside. Vibrant, compelling and surprisingly natural, Geza Schoen's Renegades fragrance is another triumph from a perfumer who's never been content to follow the leader.