Wet Work

The storm has passed, but everything it touched is still wet. Mud gives beneath your boots. Torn leaves and broken limbs cover the ground. Heavy, humid air hangs over damaged vehicles while the cleanup begins.

I know this environment from working in it. There’s a particular smell to those hours after a hurricane, when the rain has stopped and the landscape has been pulled apart. Exposed roots. Crushed vegetation. Saturated wood. Water standing where it shouldn’t be.

That was the reason for making Wet Work. I wanted to put that place inside a bottle.

I built the atmosphere first, giving the fragrance the wet, charged air that hangs over a storm site. Then came the torn greenery, damp earth and wood beneath it. Each material had a job: to make the scene feel recognizable.

If you’ve worked outside after a major storm, you may know exactly where this fragrance takes you. If you haven’t, it offers a way into a place that has become part of my life.

Wet Work begins where the weather ends and the work starts.