Matsukita

Scent Profile

Top notes: Bergamot, Pink Pepper, Cardamom, Ginger

Heart notes: Pine, Cedarwood, Leather, Vetiver

Base notes: Sandalwood, Amber, Musk, Patchouli

Why We Carry This

Matsukita demonstrates the range of what Clive Christian can do when restraint is the brief. The hinoki-cypress accord is built around specific Japanese wood materials, and the green tea heart gives the composition a clarity that the house's richer florals never attempt. A completely different register from the rest of the line.

Character

Accords: Woody, Aromatic, Fresh, Leather, Amber, Resinous

Launched: 2016

Matsukita is Clive Christian's study in Japanese materiality: yuzu opens with the specific tart-citrus quality that makes it completely distinct from European lemon or bergamot, and hinoki wood arrives immediately to ground the opening in something unmistakably of a place. Green tea and iris in the heart build a cool, almost austere middle, and the cypress-vetiver-oakmoss base has the damp forest quality that Japanese cedar baths are built to evoke. Precise, meditative, and very far from the house's more voluptuous releases.