Lockdown

2023
Eau de Parfum
Mark Sage - Clandestine Laboratories

Mark: Lockdown was originally composed in March-April 2020. The world had just shut down and I’d lost my longtime job days before my 50th birthday. Yet being alone for weeks on end without a visible future led to a feeling of complete freedom, peace, and optimism, along with an intense craving for security, comfort, and human connection. I spent a lot of time watching birds cavorting in an eerily empty sky and came to appreciate the stillness of a world without motorized human activities. It was also a period of intense creativity as there was little else to focus on that didn’t trigger my anxiety. This fragrance was one result and it embodies those feelings and contradictions: there are interesting contrasts between the rough-green and cool-spicy elements, incense resins, and the woody-smoky-animalic base.

Lockdown embodies that very special period of time in which the present and future were in suspense, nothing was certain, and anything was possible.

Dave: A personal perfume from an unprecedented shared moment, Lockdown offers the wearer the unique opportunity to experience the perfumer’s self-soothing through spice, resin and wood, with each element, at turns, cool and warm. Intimate and rewarding.

Lockdown notes: Lime, fig leaves, pink pepper, cardamom, cascarilla, elemi, ginger, myrrh, smoky incense, weeping cypress, jasmine, ylang ylang, labdanum, sandalwood, civet, musk.