The Abandoned Mansion

Imaginary Authors — The Abandoned Mansion is a woody-spicy reverie that smells like dust-moted light through cracked shutters and footsteps on ancient floorboards. It opens with a cool, bittersweet glow—cedar’s dry grain and petitgrain’s green citrus stitched with the mellow tartness of quince—inviting yet uncanny. The heart warms and flickers as pimento’s rosy heat lifts the wood, hinting at hidden letters and long-faded laughter. In the dry down, mossy shadows and an ambered hum of ambreine settle close to the skin, leaving a quiet, intriguing trail that lingers like a memory you can almost place. Top notes: Cedar, Petitgrain, Quince. Middle note: Pimento. Base notes: Oakmoss, Ambreine.