''FOR THE VIOLENCE OF MY EMOTIONS'' Spite EDP (Chronotope): The big tormented sister

credits: Chrontope

I fantasize about Francois Truffaut spraying this perfume all over the set of Adele H.

It makes no chronological sense, but I cannot screw this from my mind.
While clearly connected to its EdT counterpart, there's no lightness to it.
In fact, Spite EdP is almost a claustrophobic delirium.

Its sweetness is slow to unpack and remains intentionally distant, and tacit.
The flowers - a selection of bittersweet carnation, chrysantemum and nasturtion- are so subtle to have a sort-of poisonous imaginary to them.
My friend Marta said:

"it smells like that fascinating person who you desperately want to be friends with, but they never allow you to get closer to them, to really know their nature.  

It smells like wearing an invisible armor.''

snap from 'The History of Adele H'; from Tumblr; 

Dominant in galbanum, artichocke and in what really Carter accomplishes here by recreating a liquid portrait of rose thorns, it's still heavy in my self-proclaimed and not listed 'paper note' I love so much of Spite Edt, which I find it to be the main (if not almost only) note linked with its sister.

I am particularly fascinated by how it dries down to this unexpected crushed chili pepper protagonism, 
with an echoing extra dry vetiver in the background.

Artemisia Gentileschi's Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, c. 1620; credits: Oceansbridge

It has a gothic soul, to the point that the 15 years old me obsessed with old monumental cemeteries and Joy Division must be somewhere feeling at peace after finally having found a severely dark flower scent that is able to capture some florals' bitterness and medicinal olfactory pigmentations.

     Spite EdP is not an easy wear.
I'd argue that it is much more conflictual, outrageously angry and impetuous than its sister, even though it's important to note that according to Carter the EdP should be <<about adaptation>>, rather than <<selfishness>> or <<frustration>>.

      During my undergraduate years, a professor once said that ugly feelings are important, if not necessary.
And I find  Spite estranged siblings to be a necessary presence in the fragrance panorama,
both in their concept formulation and in their olfactory translation of such demonized ugly feelings.
In particular with the EdP, you can almost stream the burning flow of these  emotions. 
By being addressed through the olfactory language rather then confined to volatile isolation,
they don't lose meaning;
instead, they find a solution,
a pathway to self-growth, acceptance and methodic improvement.

music: Piano Concerto 5 'Adagio poco Mosso' by Beethoven,
Allonsanfan soundtrack by Ennio Morricone,
Miranda by Slowdive, 
FKA Twigs' Mary Magdalene,
Murder and Crime & Cimmerian Shade by Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine.

movies: Francois Truffaut's Adele H,
Joachim Trier's The Worst Person in the World,
Allonsanfan by Taviani brothers