A haunted perfume for a life clawed back after a near-death experience. Walking out the door of the abandoned house where you used to live, you collapse face-first into the garden, choking on the smell of violets and your red fruit lipstick. You kiss the earth with your dirty lips, sucking life back into your soul.
All about this fragrance
Vibe check
It suits a solitary, inward-looking mood: coming indoors from a wet garden, soil still beneath your nails and lipstick still on your mouth. The contrast between cosmetic softness and mushroom-dark earth gives it an intimate but unsettling presence, better suited to close attention than casual background wear.
How to wear
Try it first in cool, damp weather, where the earthy and violet facets have a fitting backdrop. Begin with one spray on the forearm or upper chest and assess its reach before adding more. Close application keeps the lipstick-and-soil contrast within your personal space; use a lighter hand in heat.
Who it’s for
For wearers drawn to soil accords, cosmetic textures and unconventional leathery fragrances. It will appeal most to those who enjoy the tension between violet softness, lipstick sweetness and the darker, organic character of mushroom and damp earth.
Release year
2025
The nose
Maqueda
Maqueda’s story
Maqueda treats perfume as an instrument of introspection rather than an accessory. The independent Italian house draws on alchemy, memory and ritual, with its Dark Room concept framing bespoke fragrance as a personal olfactory relic rather than a mass-market object.
Labbra e Terra’s concept
Labbra e Terra imagines renewal through contact with the earth. Its poetic narratives place lipstick, garden scents and damp soil around a figure emerging from suffering, with an abandoned home serving as a setting for memory and rebirth. This is a fictional fragrance concept, not a documented near-death experience.
Extra info
Its published note pyramid includes an unusual “old house” accord alongside melon, cucumber, violet leaf, red fruits, valerian and earthy notes, giving the abandoned-home narrative a direct counterpart in the composition.
A haunted perfume for a life clawed back after a near-death experience. Walking out the door of the abandoned house where you used to live, you collapse face-first into the garden, choking on the smell of violets and your red fruit lipstick. You kiss the earth with your dirty lips, sucking life back into your soul.
All about this fragrance
Vibe check
It suits a solitary, inward-looking mood: coming indoors from a wet garden, soil still beneath your nails and lipstick still on your mouth. The contrast between cosmetic softness and mushroom-dark earth gives it an intimate but unsettling presence, better suited to close attention than casual background wear.
How to wear
Try it first in cool, damp weather, where the earthy and violet facets have a fitting backdrop. Begin with one spray on the forearm or upper chest and assess its reach before adding more. Close application keeps the lipstick-and-soil contrast within your personal space; use a lighter hand in heat.
Who it’s for
For wearers drawn to soil accords, cosmetic textures and unconventional leathery fragrances. It will appeal most to those who enjoy the tension between violet softness, lipstick sweetness and the darker, organic character of mushroom and damp earth.
Release year
2025
The nose
Maqueda
Maqueda’s story
Maqueda treats perfume as an instrument of introspection rather than an accessory. The independent Italian house draws on alchemy, memory and ritual, with its Dark Room concept framing bespoke fragrance as a personal olfactory relic rather than a mass-market object.
Labbra e Terra’s concept
Labbra e Terra imagines renewal through contact with the earth. Its poetic narratives place lipstick, garden scents and damp soil around a figure emerging from suffering, with an abandoned home serving as a setting for memory and rebirth. This is a fictional fragrance concept, not a documented near-death experience.
Extra info
Its published note pyramid includes an unusual “old house” accord alongside melon, cucumber, violet leaf, red fruits, valerian and earthy notes, giving the abandoned-home narrative a direct counterpart in the composition.
