Take Me To The River 100ml Eau de Parfum

Our fragrance based on the Talking Heads live 1980s version of Take Me To The River.

We wanted to capture by the feeling of an irresistible attraction to someone who's very bad for you but that you don't want to give up, not yet. If you've been there, you're probably very glad to be out of it, and maybe look back with a certain fondness but much more relief.

Do listen to the song to get the idea, but we asked our Facebook group, 4160Tuesdays News what it should smell like and we got:

"whiskey, cigarettes, money, 80s loud perfume, lipstick, salt water/tears, dirt, roses and leather"

"sex and leather and tobacco"

"cocoa with the birch tar, orange, sandalwood and vetiver"

"Oakmoss, Patchouli, Civet, Smoke, Musk"

"Petrol, chalk, damp wood and metal (bit like what guitars smell like) and sweet sweaty musks. Analog cameras and bakelite, rubber shoes and vintage aftershave. 80’s velvet upholstery"

"fag smoke, leather jackets, sticky wooden floors, face powder, lippy & massive clouds of Elnett hairspray"

We took all these ideas and went with leather, tobacco, musk, wine, cognac, and a hint of rose and raspberry jam.

• Perfumery Dialect: spicy amber
• Top Notes: rum, rose, wine
• Heart Notes: patchouli, beeswax, tobacco
• Base Notes: musk, amber, leather

Ingredients: Alcohol (denat), Parfum, Evernia Furfuraceae (Tree Moss) Extract, Citronellol, Geraniol, Farnesol, Linalool, Eugenol, Limonene

This is the 100ml bottle

Take Me To The River is not suitable for vegans as it contains ambergris and beeswax. 

 "Take Me to the River smells like the kind of place that doesn't exist anymore. If Twin Peaks had been filmed in (glorious) Smell-o-Vision, Take Me to the River's dark booze-soaked roses would have been the olfactory landscape of the Bang Bang Bar. There's smoke hanging in the air, and you're sat in a wine stained booth that's seen better days about to fall into a romance that ends before dawn." - bgirlrhapsody

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