The Antagonist
The Void
Bensin dan mesiu membakar babak pembuka, memberi jalan bagi resin cannabis, logam dingin, dan bara membara sebelum menetap ke dasar abu, karet, dan kemenyan yang terasa lebih seperti tempat kejadian perkara daripada sebuah wewangian.
Sang Peracik
Diciptakan untuk The Antagonist, sebuah rumah parfum yang peraciknya dijaga kerahasiaannya.
Berasap
Kayu hangus dan bara yang naik
Aroma kering dan hangus dari kayu yang terbakar, dupa yang membara, dan abu yang tertinggal, kadang bagai tar, kadang tipis dan kelabu. Terasa termenung dan atmosferik, menghadirkan api yang sekarat dan arus udara sejuk yang membawa napas terakhirnya.
Aromatik
Rempah hijau ditumbuk di udara sejuk
Kesejukan hijau dan kamfor dari lavender, rosemary, sage, dan thyme, seperti dedaunan yang diremas di antara jari. Terasa bersih, menyegarkan, dan sedikit tegas, tulang punggung renyah dari kesegaran gaya barbershop klasik.
Kanabis
resin hijau, berasap dan herbal
Resin hijau yang menyengat, herbal dan sedikit liar, dengan tepi berasap dan berlada serta sentuhan jerami kering. Terasa berkabut dan memberontak, menambahkan kehangatan narkotik yang sedikit kotor, di antara herba segar yang diremas dan asap yang membara.
Berkayu
Serat kering dari kayu yang dipotong
Aroma serutan cedar, cendana, dan akar vetiver kering, kehangatan beresin yang diamplas dengan gores samar bagai kotak pensil. Terasa membumi dan tenang, tulang punggung diam yang membuat sebuah aroma terbaca serius dan tahan lama.
Metalik
Baja dingin dan darah cerah
Kilau sejuk tanpa darah seperti jilatan koin atau udara di sekitar besi panas. Tajam dan nyaris mineral, ia menghadirkan dingin yang bersih dan modern, aroma mata pisau atau bagian dalam kaleng, menyegarkan dan samar elektrik.
Bensin
Hot tarmac, pumps and engines on a summer forecourt
What it is
A conceptual note reproducing the smell of petrol, never real fuel, which is toxic and volatile. Perfumers build it from aroma-chemicals: solvent-like isoparaffins, styrene and other aromatic-hydrocarbon impressions, rubbery and phenolic facets, and mineral, faintly sweet molecules that together evoke a fuel-station forecourt.
How it smells
Sharp, volatile and chemical: a sweetish solvent rush over warm rubber, hot asphalt and metal. A faintly mineral, almost narcotic lift sits on top, drying to smoky, tarry, industrial warmth. The effect is equal parts repellent and oddly compelling, like a freshly handled pump nozzle.
In perfumery
A provocative top-to-heart accent in niche and avant-garde work, signalling machinery, speed and urban grit. It pairs with leather, rubber, incense and metallic notes. The accord drives petrol-and-asphalt fragrances built around a fuel-station forecourt and the gasoline facet of certain provocative niche scents.
Good to know
The sweetness many people crave in petrol comes largely from benzene and related aromatic hydrocarbons, which are carcinogenic. US regulators have capped average gasoline benzene content at 0.62 percent by volume since 2011. Perfume accords recreate the thrill while omitting the fuel's hazardous chemistry.
Asap
Drifting ash, embers and distant bonfire
What it is
Smoke is an abstract, evocative note rather than a single ingredient, built from materials that carry burnt and charred facets. Perfumers construct it from birch tar distilled from smoldering bark, guaiacwood, cade oil, lapsang souchong tea, vetiver and phenolic aroma-chemicals such as guaiacol that mimic combustion.
How it smells
Dry, charred and airy, like cooled embers, woodsmoke and singed paper drifting from a distant fire. It can lean tarry and leathery, incense-like and resinous, or campfire-sweet. It opens acrid and ashen, then settles into a warm, smoldering dryness that clings like scent on a wool coat.
In perfumery
Usually a base or heart effect lending depth, edge and a brooding atmosphere. It pairs with leather, incense, oud, vetiver and dry woods in dark, moody compositions. It haunts many smoky leather and incense scents.
Good to know
Birch tar, the most authentic smoke and leather material, is tightly restricted by IFRA because crude grades carry carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Modern perfumers rely on vacuum-rectified, low-PAH birch tar and synthetic phenols to evoke the same primal campfire effect within safety limits.
Mesiu
Smoke, sulphur and struck char on the wind
What it is
Gunpowder is not a botanical but an accord built by perfumers. Black powder itself is saltpetre, charcoal and sulphur; its scent-image is reconstructed from smoky woods, sulphurous and burnt-match materials, tarry birch and trace metallic, mineral notes layered to suggest combustion and spent fireworks.
How it smells
It opens sharp and acrid, like a freshly struck match or a spent firecracker, with sulphur, hot metal and ash. Beneath sits dry charred wood and a flinty mineral edge. The drydown settles toward warm smoke, gunflint and singed paper rather than open flame.
In perfumery
A heart-to-base effect prized in dark, smoky and incense compositions for tension and edge, pairing with leather, oud, incense, vetiver and saffron. The flinty gunpowder facet, paired with flint and smoke, drives a number of green and mineral niche compositions and runs through many mineral niche leathers.
Good to know
The smell of fireworks owes more to vaporised metallic salts and sulphur than to the powder itself. Perfumers chase the effect with sulphur-bearing molecules and smoky materials; many cult smoky scents also lean on birch tar, which is why some read faintly of campfire and old leather.
Nuansa Kayu
The grain and warmth of trees themselves
What it is
A category rather than a single material, covering aromas from tree woods, roots and bark plus synthetics that extend them. It spans sandalwood, cedar, vetiver, guaiac and patchouli, drawn by steam distillation or solvent extraction, alongside lab-made woody-ambers like Iso E Super, made entirely by chemical synthesis.
How it smells
Dry to creamy, evoking sawn timber, pencil shavings, fresh resin and sun-warmed bark. Cedar reads pencil-sharp, sandalwood milky and smooth, vetiver earthy and rooty, guaiac smoky-sweet. As a group the impression is grounding, textured and faintly smoky, the backbone many compositions stand on.
In perfumery
Mostly heart and base material, woody notes give structure, longevity and a natural backbone tying a composition together. They support nearly every family, anchoring florals, ambers and fougeres. Modern woody-amber molecules drive countless contemporary scents, the dry cedar-vetiver register among them.
Good to know
Much of today's woodiness is synthetic, partly because natural sandalwood and rosewood were overharvested into protected status. A single molecule, Iso E Super, grew so dominant that an entire cult fragrance was built around it almost neat, near-imperceptible up close yet glowing on skin.
Ganja
Green smoke off a damp forest floor
What it is
A note inspired by Cannabis sativa, the flowering hemp plant. Because the resin's psychoactive compounds are not used, perfumers reconstruct the scent as an accord, sometimes drawing on legal hemp aroma, blending green, smoky and herbal aroma-chemicals to mimic the leaves, stems and burning bud.
How it smells
Aromatic, green and smoky with a dirty, sour herbal edge. It reads earthy like damp soil and crushed leaves, with sage, basil and pine-resin facets and a peppery bite. Some accords stay fresh and vegetal; others smoulder into a musky, woody warmth resembling a lit joint.
In perfumery
A heart note adding edgy, herbaceous green smoke, usually woven with vetiver, patchouli, cedar and black pepper to keep it refined rather than literal. Fresh Cannabis Santal grounds it in patchouli and dark chocolate, while BORNTOSTANDOUT Mary Jane lifts it with mint, grapefruit and passionfruit.
Good to know
The fragrance note contains no THC and is fully legal; it is an olfactory illusion assembled from terpenes and synthetics rather than extracted from the plant. Cannabis perfumes grew into a recognized trend, with several launches timed around the 4/20 cannabis date as a knowing wink.
Nuansa Metalik
Cold electric shiver of struck steel and blood
What it is
A synthetic accord rather than a single ingredient, since metal cannot be distilled. Perfumers build the impression from aliphatic aldehydes and certain ketones blended in the laboratory, anchored by trace molecules such as trans-4,5-epoxy-(E)-2-decenal, the aldehyde behind blood's iron tang, plus notes echoing struck flint.
How it smells
Cold, sharp and electric, like a coin held on the tongue or the tang of iron on damp skin. It opens bright and almost soapy from the aldehydes, then cools toward wet steel and struck flint with a faint coppery, bloody edge before drying clean and inorganic.
In perfumery
Usually a top or heart accent adding chill, tension and modernity, cutting through florals and ambers. It pairs with rose, violet leaf, incense and aquatic notes. Classic aldehydic florals carry a metallic shimmer, and many modern niche scents lean on the facet for edge.
Good to know
Trans-4,5-epoxy-(E)-2-decenal, the molecule giving blood its iron tang, is detectable around 0.078 parts per trillion in water, among the most potent odorants known. Predators track prey by it, and a few invisible drops can turn a whole composition cold and razor-edged.
Dupa
Sacred smoke curling from resin and embers
What it is
In perfumery, incense usually means olibanum, the oleo-gum-resin of Boswellia trees from Oman, Somalia and Ethiopia. The bark is slashed, weeps a milky exudate that hardens into amber tears, and these are steam-distilled to an essential oil or solvent-extracted to an absolute; blends often add labdanum and styrax.
How it smells
Cool, dry and resinous, with a sharp citrus-pine lift over smoky, peppery warmth. There is a clean church-air quality: balsamic, slightly soapy, faintly green. It opens bright and turpentine-fresh, then settles into a meditative, ashen-sweet woodiness that lingers close to the skin.
In perfumery
A heart-to-base material prized for its contemplative, smoky-resinous character. It cools florals, sharpens woods and lends ritual gravity to oriental and chypre accords. It defines the great church-incense scents and the cold, mineral incense of many a meditative niche composition.
Good to know
Frankincense was once worth its weight in gold, carried along ancient Arabian caravan routes to temples across the Mediterranean and beyond. Wild Boswellia stands are now threatened by over-tapping, grazing and climate stress, prompting growing interest in sustainable harvesting and tapping quotas.
Batu Bara
Smouldering embers, cold ash, mineral dark
What it is
Coal is a black sedimentary rock formed over millions of years from compressed, heat-altered plant matter buried in ancient swamps. As a fragrance note it is not extracted but reconstructed: perfumers build the impression using smoky, charred, tarry and mineral aroma-chemicals rather than burning the rock itself.
How it smells
The accord reads dark, dry and dusty, like smouldering embers and a fire just put out. It opens with sooty, ashen smoke over a cold, almost metallic mineral edge, then settles into gritty earthen char. Less sweet than incense, harder and more rusted than woodsmoke.
In perfumery
Coal works in the heart and base, lending grit, tension and brooding industrial darkness to smoky mineral compositions. It pairs with incense, leather, tar, papyrus and dry woods. Andrea Maack's Coal, built on smoky papyrus, juniper and leather, is the reference fragrance evoking this sooty theme.
Good to know
Coal-tar by-products seeded modern perfumery. From the 1860s onward, chemists drew synthetic aroma materials from coal-tar distillation, yielding early molecules like coumarin and vanillin. The smoky note now called coal is a separate modern abstraction, not a relic of that nineteenth-century chemistry.
Abu
Cold embers, mineral dust and dying smoke
What it is
Not a harvested material but a constructed accord. Ash, the grey residue of burnt wood, cannot be distilled, so perfumers evoke it synthetically. They take smoke materials such as birch tar, cade oil and guaiacol, then strip away their warm resinous facets to leave only the dry, mineral, bitter trace.
How it smells
Dry, smoky and faintly bitter, like a fireplace the morning after. There is burnt wood and cold charcoal, a chalky mineral edge, and the slightly metallic dustiness of cooled embers. It reads austere and desolate, with no sweetness or resin to round it off.
In perfumery
A base note prized for raw, atmospheric depth in smoky and mineral compositions. It is amplified by vetiver, cedar and birch tar, while jasmine, rose or incense can soften its starkness. The note appears in avant-garde and niche fragrances built around fire, ruin and bleak landscapes.
Good to know
Because true ash has no extractable oil, the note exists entirely as an olfactory illusion. Perfumers often build it by subtraction, removing the cosy parts of a smoke accord rather than adding new materials, so the smell is defined by what is taken away.
Karet
Fresh tire and warm latex, smoky and addictive
What it is
As a perfume note, rubber is an effect built rather than distilled. Perfumers assemble it from smoky materials such as birch tar and guaiacol, paired with leathery synthetics, to suggest vulcanized rubber, new tires and latex. It does not come from tapping the rubber tree itself.
How it smells
Bitter, dry and slightly powdery, recalling a fresh bicycle inner tube, a new car interior or a balloon. It carries a smoky, sooty, almost burnt-mineral edge over a faint sweetness. The note reads industrial and cool up top, softening into a warm leathery, latex-skin facet as it settles.
In perfumery
Usually a heart-to-base accent giving smoky, leathery texture and an unexpected dark edge rather than standing alone. It pairs with vanilla, tar, leather and incense. The defining example is a late-1990s cult fragrance in which a fresh-tire rubber accord meets smoky lapsang tea and vanilla.
Good to know
In a well-built fragrance the rubber note is meant to stay subliminal, lending smokiness without announcing itself. A 1998 cult classic discontinued in 2017 made the new-tire accord famous and turned a deliberately industrial smell into a beloved comfort scent.
Udara Ruang Bawah Tanah
The hush beneath the floorboards
What it is
Basement Air is the smell of stillness held underground, where no wind has stirred in years. It is air gone cool and faintly damp, carrying the chalky dryness of dust on a shelf and the wet-mineral edge of concrete that never fully dries. There is a green whisper of something growing in the dark, a trace of old paper softening, and the clean, almost metallic coolness that rises off a stone floor in summer. It smells less of a single material than of a held breath, of a room that remembers being closed.
In the composition
Avant-garde houses reach for Basement Air to ground a fragrance in unease and quiet, lending a scent that subterranean weight that ordinary freshness cannot. It sits low and shadowy beneath brighter accords, its damp-concrete chill sharpening earthy roots, oakmoss, and pale woods, while its dusty hush softens anything too polished. A little turns a composition introspective and architectural; too much and the whole scent goes cold and abandoned. It is a note for perfumes that want to feel found rather than made.
Kemenyan
Sacred smoke distilled from desert tree tears
What it is
Frankincense, or olibanum, is the dried gum resin of Boswellia trees, with Boswellia sacra of Oman, Yemen and Somalia among the most prized. The bark is scored and weeps a milky sap that hardens over weeks into golden tears, later steam-distilled or solvent-extracted for perfumery.
How it smells
Fresh, resinous and luminous, with a clean coniferous-citrus brightness from alpha-pinene and limonene over a dry, balsamic woody base. It carries a cool, peppery, almost lemony lift, then settles into the warm, dusty incense smoke familiar from churches and temples.
In perfumery
Used in heart and base, it adds a meditative, smoky resinous spine and a soaring transparency. It pairs with myrrh, rose, oud and labdanum, and lifts heavy oriental accords. It centers many incense-built compositions and defines the cathedral-incense theme.
Good to know
Frankincense has been traded for over five thousand years and once moved along Arabian incense routes at prices rivaling gold. Wild Boswellia populations are now declining from over-tapping, drought and grazing, raising real concern over the long-term sustainability of the harvest.
Mur
Bitter resin smoke from a wounded desert tree
What it is
An oleo-gum-resin from thorny Commiphora myrrha shrubs of the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Harvesters wound the bark; the tree weeps a pale sap that hardens into reddish-brown tears. These are steam-distilled to an essential oil or solvent-extracted to a darker resinoid.
How it smells
Cool, bitter and resinous on opening, with a medicinal, almost band-aid sharpness over dry earth and licorice. It warms into smoky balsam, soft leather and a faint mushroom-mossy depth, drying down dusty, sweet-bitter and meditative — slower and darker than frankincense.
In perfumery
A base note bringing smoky depth, resinous body and a churchy gravity to orientals, chypres and incense compositions. Pairs naturally with frankincense, rose, labdanum and benzoin. It anchors meditative myrrh-forward incense scents and gives backbone to countless amber and incense accords.
Good to know
One of the oldest traded aromatics, myrrh was burned in Egyptian temples, used in embalming and named among the Magi's gifts. Its name derives from a Semitic root meaning bitter. Wild harvesting and overgrazing now threaten several Commiphora populations across the Horn of Africa.
Karakter Wewangian
Dibuka dengan keras dan kimiawi, bensin dan asap membelah udara dengan kejernihan yang hampir agresif. Heart-nya semakin dalam menjadi sesuatu yang lebih aneh: resin cannabis dan metallic notes berbenturan dengan incense dan coal, industri dan ritual sekaligus. Pada drydown, ash dan rubber perlahan mundur, menyerahkan frankincense dan myrrh untuk menahan kulit dalam sesuatu yang gelap, sunyi, dan samar-samar sakral.
Ketahanan
berapa lama ia bertahan di kulit
Pengukur ini membaca durasi pemakaian yang diharapkan, berapa jam aroma terus berbicara di kulit sebelum memudar. Penanda di dekat ujung rendah berarti beberapa jam yang sekejap, sementara penanda yang didorong ke ujung jauh menjanjikan aroma yang masih hadir dari pagi hingga malam.
Jejak Aroma
besarnya jejak aromanya
Ini membaca seberapa jauh aroma menjangkau melampaui dirimu dan jejak yang ditinggalkannya. Rendah duduk lembut di kulit, bisikan intim yang hanya disadari dari dekat; tinggi naik melalui sedang dan kuat menuju luas, memenuhi ruangan dan tetap melayang di udara setelah kau meninggalkannya.
Eksperimental
Untuk yang berani dan penasaran
Aroma tak lazim yang mendorong batas bagi seseorang yang ingin memancing reaksi dan tampil berbeda. Cocok untuk komposisi artistik dan menantang: tar bertinta, karet, buah terfermentasi, faset metalik atau animalik yang menentang kesukaan mudah. Pada roda ini koin yang bersinar berarti ia memberi imbalan bagi hidung petualang, koin yang redup berarti ia bermain aman.
Kantor
Rapi tetapi tak pernah berlebihan
Lingkungan profesional jarak dekat di mana sebuah aroma sebaiknya hanya disadari oleh mereka yang berada dekat. Cocok untuk komposisi terkendali dan bersih dengan proyeksi sederhana: sitrus rapi, musk lembut, kayu pucat yang terbaca cakap dan penuh perhatian. Pada roda ini koin yang bersinar berarti ia cocok di ruang kerja bersama, koin yang redup berarti ia menjangkau terlalu jauh.
Malam
Setelah gelap, dinaikkan
Makan malam, minuman, dan malam keluar saat sebuah aroma boleh memperdalam diri dan memproyeksikan dengan percaya diri. Cocok untuk komposisi yang lebih kaya dan hangat: amber, resin, kayu berasap, atau bunga empuk yang mekar di bawah cahaya temaram. Pada roda ini koin yang bersinar berarti aroma ini hidup setelah matahari terbenam, koin yang redup berarti ia lebih pas untuk siang hari.
Romantis
Cukup dekat untuk dirasakan
Momen intim dan kencan malam yang dimaksudkan untuk menarik seseorang lebih dekat. Cocok untuk komposisi hangat dan sensual yang berdengung di kulit: bunga berkrim, vanila, musk lembut, sentuhan rempah atau amber yang mengundang kedekatan. Pada roda ini koin yang bersinar berarti ia menciptakan suasana yang menggoda, koin yang redup berarti ia lebih praktis daripada menggoda.
Formal
Anggun untuk acara yang berarti
Pernikahan, upacara, gala, dan acara berbusana rapi yang menuntut ketenangan dan keanggunan. Cocok untuk aroma halus dan terstruktur dengan wibawa yang tenang: kayu mulus, bunga halus, kulit lembut, tak ada yang berisik atau ceria. Pada roda ini koin yang bersinar berarti ia membawa gravitas yang tepat, koin yang redup berarti ia terasa terlalu santai untuk ruangan itu.
Santai
Kenyamanan ringan untuk hari tanpa kejaran
Pemakaian sehari-hari tanpa agenda: berbelanja, ngopi, bertemu teman, akhir pekan yang santai. Cocok untuk aroma lembut dan mudah didekati yang terasa bersih dan alami, seperti sitrus segar, kayu ringan, atau kehangatan kulit yang lembut. Pada roda ini koin yang bersinar berarti aroma ini pas untuk momen santai, koin yang redup berarti ia menuntut lebih.
Siang ke Malam
ke mana suasananya secara alami jatuh
Penggeser ini membaca jam yang menjadi tujuan aroma ini. Penanda di kiri condong bercahaya dan cerah, mudah dipakai di siang hari dan udara terbuka; geser ke kanan dan karakternya berubah lebih dalam dan hangat, jenis kehadiran yang milik malam hari dan ruang bercahaya lilin.
Musim Dingin
Kehangatan yang menembus udara dingin
Udara dingin meredam dan memperlambat sebuah aroma, sehingga musim dingin memberi imbalan pada yang padat dan hangat: resin, asap, vanila, kulit, dan rempah beramber yang memancarkan panas melawan dinginnya udara. Bilah ini menunjukkan seberapa kuat aroma tertentu ini bertahan dan bersinar dalam cuaca dingin.
Musim Semi
Bunga segar dalam kehangatan yang lembut menanjak
Udara lembap dan sejuk mengangkat komposisi yang lebih ringan dengan indah, sehingga musim semi menyukai bunga berembun, batang hijau, bedak lembut, dan sitrus bening yang terasa hidup alih-alih berat. Bilah ini menunjukkan seberapa baik aroma tertentu ini cocok dengan musim yang segar dan lembut menghangat itu.
Musim Panas
Cerah dan ringan dalam panas sejati
Panas memperkuat dan memproyeksikan aroma dengan keras, sehingga musim panas membutuhkan hal yang sejuk, renyah, dan bernapas: sitrus tajam, udara laut asin, herba aromatik, dan kesegaran berair yang menyegarkan alih-alih menyesakkan. Bilah ini menunjukkan seberapa nyaman aroma tertentu ini dipakai dalam kehangatan sejati.
Musim Gugur
Kehangatan berempah untuk hari yang mendingin
Saat suhu turun, material yang lebih kaya terbaca jelas tanpa menyesakkan, sehingga musim gugur cocok untuk kayu kering, rempah hangat, tembakau, amber, dan buah keemasan yang terasa nyaman dan kontemplatif. Bilah ini menunjukkan seberapa alami aroma tertentu ini menyatu dengan hari yang renyah dan mendingin.
Paling Cocok Dikenakan
Wewangian untuk bulan-bulan terdingin dan jam-jam paling larut, dikenakan oleh seseorang yang merasa pilihan malam konvensional terlalu mudah diterima.
Mengapa Decant The Void
The Void cukup konfrontatif sehingga decant adalah satu-satunya cara masuk akal untuk menentukan apakah kegelapan khasnya merupakan sebuah wahyu atau sekadar terlalu berat untuk dijalani sehari-hari.
Notes Resmi
Bensin · Asap · Mesiu · Nuansa Kayu · Ganja · Nuansa Metalik · Dupa · Batu Bara · Abu · Karet · Udara Ruang Bawah Tanah · Kemenyan · Mur
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