Nos Republic Empire T

J’s image of Nos Republic Empire T

Sparkling fresh green fruits with floral facets fizz like champagne. Empire T opens with a sour apple green boozy aroma whose bubbles pop releasing a hint of spice paired with a slightly earthy musky aroma. The bubbles glistening like the lights of a big city on a dark cold night. Subtle intoxicating musks give off an allure of closeness, ambrette paired with the fruity-floral champagne feels flirty and fun as it rises from your skin, you can feel there’s excitement ahead as that bite of green bites into you. First, an icy cool air arrives to summon the flower known as the ‘Queen of the Night’. It adds a cool shiver of excitement as a lovely counter and complement to the playful opening, giving the sensation of space and a vertical feel of being high up. Empire T seems to me like a contemporary take on classic glamour, especially as the tuberose blooms; think the style of Rachael and Deckard from Ridley Scott’s Bladerunner, (one of my favourite films and yes, I’ve seen all the cuts), while capturing elements of its sleek epic futuristic architecture and design bathed in a touch of the faded art deco.

Blade Runner poster and The Bradbury Building in Los Angeles was used as one of the filming locations via wiki

Lustrous tuberose unfurls keeping that apple fruitiness, twisting it into vegetal greenery as the petals reveal themselves. Empire T purrs and whispers its narcotic heady desires rather than screams them. It’s controlled and confident, making the musky opening’s spices grow warm as the sculpted blossoms wrap around you. Subtle waxy aromas add more sensuality to Empire T with soft kisses of floral sweetness feeling tender as it glides over you. The opening has moved into a more personal space now, having found its lover at the party. The green tones turn a pinkish hue as the heat of the tuberose swirls in the cool night air. Nos Republic Empire T becomes a spacious perfumed environment for you to dream in.

Perfumer Stéphanie Bakouche and her composition Nos Republic Empire T photo via the brand.

The texture changes too as curls of cigarette smoke turn the petals from silk into a crushed velvet, with a fur like texture. There’s something vintage but very contemporary happening, the tuberose with a classic glamour is embraced by tender ,fruity tobacco. Those apple notes fade with earthy almost cherry aromas now haunting the air. It’s all so deft and elegant, like the ghost of a memory swirling round you as its powdery touch glides over your skin. Empire T shifts again here letting the tobacco shine, getting drier as the tuberose’s petals warm from its touch releasing flickers of balsamic excitement. The scented journey Empire T’s perfumer Stéphanie Bakouche takes you on is unforgettable. As another cigarette is lit, it’s if you step outside and feel that cool gust of air ripple under your floral fur. Stéphanie Bakouche captures the magic and the excitement of the big city at night.

Ksenia Golovanova of Nos Republic, photo via the brand.

There’s a sense of calm in Empire T as the dry down arrives. Think early morning in the city, darkness and the night’s cool breeze still adds a chill in the air, that sensation after the city has been covered with a fresh blanket of snow, but here the snow is transformed into a tuberose carpet, now with their greenery removed. Each petal is kissed by sweet whispers of tobacco resting over a powdery smoke with a touch of ash. The ash is more of a texture and tone for me, staining the tuberose a delicate  shade of off-white, with the smoke giving a musky ethereal sensation adding to Empire T’s vintage elegant ambiance. That touch of darkness makes the tuberose glow as if tendrils of smoky moonlight hover above. Nos Republic Empire T is quietly sexy, think of it touching skin with just a wink of something musky and animalic lurking with desire beneath. There’s also a clever counterpoint to Empire T giving it a toughness, you feel that more with the fun bite of the greens from the opening, but even in the dry down there a strength, that classic film noir dame ‘to kill for’ vibe ( although Empire T is unisex ). It’s a beautiful smoky tuberose that’s cool and collected, dripping with confidence and humming with desire.

Notes: Tuberose, Champagne Accord, Cigarette Smoke, Cold Ash, Night Air, Vintage Fur.

Discloser: Nos Republic Empire T was sent to J for this review, his nose, thoughts are his own.

 J Wearescentient, Senior Editor, artist and olfactive writer.

Nos Republic Empire T photo via the brand.

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Empire T was launched in 2023

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