No Longer Human Extrait de Parfum
No Longer Human is a fragrance steeped in melancholy and existential contemplation, inspired by Osamu Dazai’s haunting novel of alienation, identity, and fractured humanity. Like the novel’s protagonist, the scent is layered with contradictions—warm yet distant, luminous yet shadowed, familiar yet unsettling. It captures a journey through fragmented memories and emotional landscapes, where the weight of existence clings like a veil of smoke.
The fragrance opens with a bittersweet brightness: chamomile and lemon create a fragile, fleeting shimmer, reminiscent of fleeting moments of innocence and clarity. This delicate freshness fades quickly, as if overwhelmed by the burdens that follow.
At its heart, golden ambergris glows with a strange, radiant warmth—an elusive reminder of the beauty found even within sorrow. Labdanum and cistus add a resinous complexity, their sticky sweetness tinged with shadows. The smoky depth of opoponax and myrrh unfurls like a veil, evoking a sense of disquiet and introspection, as though the air itself were thick with the weight of unspoken truths.
The base is grounding yet fractured, like the remnants of a self pieced together from disjointed fragments. Oakmoss absolute and Vietnamese oud provide a dark, earthy gravity, while cedarwood lends a dry, austere sharpness. Mysore sandalwood offers a fleeting balm of softness, tempered by the primal hum of aged woods. Vanilla absolute lingers faintly in the background, like a faint echo of sweetness that can never fully be grasped.
No Longer Human is a scent of profound introspection and existential weight, capturing the fragility of identity and the struggle to find connection in a world that often feels alien and indifferent. It invites the wearer to confront the raw, unvarnished truths of existence and, perhaps, find a fleeting beauty within the disquiet.
No Longer Human is a fragrance steeped in melancholy and existential contemplation, inspired by Osamu Dazai’s haunting novel of alienation, identity, and fractured humanity. Like the novel’s protagonist, the scent is layered with contradictions—warm yet distant, luminous yet shadowed, familiar yet unsettling. It captures a journey through fragmented memories and emotional landscapes, where the weight of existence clings like a veil of smoke.
The fragrance opens with a bittersweet brightness: chamomile and lemon create a fragile, fleeting shimmer, reminiscent of fleeting moments of innocence and clarity. This delicate freshness fades quickly, as if overwhelmed by the burdens that follow.
At its heart, golden ambergris glows with a strange, radiant warmth—an elusive reminder of the beauty found even within sorrow. Labdanum and cistus add a resinous complexity, their sticky sweetness tinged with shadows. The smoky depth of opoponax and myrrh unfurls like a veil, evoking a sense of disquiet and introspection, as though the air itself were thick with the weight of unspoken truths.
The base is grounding yet fractured, like the remnants of a self pieced together from disjointed fragments. Oakmoss absolute and Vietnamese oud provide a dark, earthy gravity, while cedarwood lends a dry, austere sharpness. Mysore sandalwood offers a fleeting balm of softness, tempered by the primal hum of aged woods. Vanilla absolute lingers faintly in the background, like a faint echo of sweetness that can never fully be grasped.
No Longer Human is a scent of profound introspection and existential weight, capturing the fragility of identity and the struggle to find connection in a world that often feels alien and indifferent. It invites the wearer to confront the raw, unvarnished truths of existence and, perhaps, find a fleeting beauty within the disquiet.