IncenseOpens with
GardeniaHeart
PatchouliDries down to
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Atkinsons · Sold as unisex
The Joss Flower
You light a joss stick in a closed room and the smoke thickens until the gardenia on the table stops being a flower and becomes a weight.
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The Joss FlowerPremium · $100–250How it wears
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The story behind the bottle.
The old English word "joss" means an incense stick, and Amandine Clerc-Marie took that literally when she built this 2019 composition for Atkinsons. The opening is ceremonial and sharp — smoke, pink pepper, nutmeg — a kind of ritual heat that hits the nose before the fragrance has settled. Then it drops into gardenia, ylang-ylang, and peach, and the whole character shifts: those are not delicate florals, they are heavy, tropical, almost narcotic, the kind of bloom you smell in a humid greenhouse rather than a spring meadow. The tension between the incense-sharp top and the fleshy, warm floral heart is what gives the scent its gravity.
Beneath it all, patchouli, sandalwood, amber, and a thread of iris create a powdery, resinous base that holds the composition for hours. Atkinsons, a house tracing its roots to a London soap-and-perfume shop opened in 1799 and later appointed royal perfumer, has always favoured bold, unapologetic composition. The Joss Flower fits that lineage: a scent with strong sillage that does not ask permission to be noticed.
The pink-pepper and smoke top projects hard for the first twenty minutes — one spray fills a room, so resist the urge to double up. After that hour, the gardenia and amber pull close to skin, so a light second pass on the pulse points keeps the warmth alive through the evening. The patchouli and sandalwood base lingers on fabric for a full day.
Fig. 01 — The Joss Flower, Atkinsons
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Amandine Clerc Marie
Grasse-born, Firmenich-trainedAmandine Clerc-Marie is a French perfumer born in Grasse, where her mother also worked in the perfume industry. She trained at ISIPCA and spent more than ten years working alongside Michel Almairac before joining Firmenich in 2011 as a senior perfumer.
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