Bull's Blood

2012
Eau de Parfum
Josh Meyer - Imaginary Authors  

Josh: Devante Valéreo was raised in a dusty Spanish village on the Balearic Sea. He fondly recalled going to the bullfights with his father, an ex-picador, and credited those early experiences with inspiring his most popular novella, Bull’s Blood. The book’s lurid tale of seduction garnered obscenity charges against the author. Though the charges were rejected by the court, a ban on the sale of his works persisted for a number of years. A fixture in Barcelona, smoking cigarillos and writing in the cafés and bars into the night, Valéreo disappeared as a fugitive in 1967 after a highly publicized bar scuffle with American sailors, one of whom later died from his injuries. “A man who has killed,” he wrote in Bull’s Blood, “is a man who knows passion.”

Dave: Costus is the thread that runs through “Bull’s Blood” from start to finish - lending its metallic, wet fur, and orris-like influences to dry rose, spicy patchouli and warm, musky woods. Interesting, and a little challenging - but nothing you can’t handle.

Bull's Blood Notes: Patchouli, rose, costus root, tobacco, black musk, bull’s blood.