Nerve Agent No 4

Emotional Terrain – Nerve Agent No 4: The Silent Intelligence

Core Emotional Mode: Controlled Mystery

This fragrance is about the unsettling calm of someone who knows more than they show. It doesn’t provoke fear outright, but it disarms and disorients through elegance, grace, and unshakable composure.

Primary Emotional Responses Evoked

1. Intrigue
• The orris butter, tonka, mimosa, and myrrh create a soft, clean, refined cloud, but one with depth.
  
• People are drawn in closer, not because they understand the wearer, but because they can't.
  
• It evokes the tension of the unknowable.
  
2. Respect (bordering on deference)
• This perfume communicates discipline, taste, and high-level control.
  
• You don’t try to overpower it, you instinctively defer to it.
  
• It’s a quiet force, one that commands without confrontation.
  
3. Subtle Unease
• Not from menace, but from how hard it is to read the wearer.
  
• The freshness (bergamot, grapefruit), paired with powdery softness and woods, leaves others emotionally unbalanced.
  
• Like speaking with someone whose poker face never cracks.
  
4. Mental Sharpness (for the wearer)
• The bright citrus and delicate florals stimulate clarity and focus.
  
• It’s a perfume that grounds the mind, making the wearer feel intellectually and emotionally precise.
  
5. Aloofness
• Others may sense emotional distance, like the wearer is always one step removed, observing from a higher level.
  
• That distance is part of the power, it makes others seek approval or access.
  

Psychological & Olfactory Dynamics

• Orris butter + Tonka + Mimosa → powdery, soft, luxurious calm = disarming, emotionally neutralizing
  
• Grapefruit + Bergamot → clarity, freshness = sharp, observational energy
  
• Amber + Oakmoss + Vetiver → depth, quiet strength = composure and stillness
  
• Rose + Cardamom + Myrrh → refined warmth = understated emotional complexity
  

• Notes: Bergamot, Grapefruit, Cardamom, Honey, Mimosa, Lindenblossom, Neroli, Rose, Amber, Vetiver, Cedarwood, Sandalwood, Labdanum, Myrrh, Tonka, Orris Butter, Oakmoss

Maturation: 20 days

Maceration: 15 days

Key Ingredients: 

‘Grand Cru’ Orris butter Germanica: 10,75%

‘Grand Cru’ Sandalwood: 14,32%

No synthetics used - 100% precious natural extracts

MADE IN FRANCE at L’Atelier Français des Matières

EXTRAIT DE PARFUM - 50 ML

INGREDIENTS: Alcohol, Parfum, Limonene, Linalool, Coumarin, Geraniol, Citral, Evernia Prunastri Extract, Citronellol, Farnesol, Cinnamyl Alcohol, Linalyl Acetate, Benzyl Cinnamate, Eugenol, Benzyl Alcohol, Terpineol, Isoeugenol, Geranyl Acetate, Pinene, Citronellal, Benzyl Benzoate, Alpha-Terpinene, Cinnamal, Benzaldehyde, Terpinolene