Mania

Mania (μανία): This type of love is all consuming, obsessive, frenzied or possessive. It can be intense and tumultuous, involving strong emotional highs and lows.  It represents a passionate and intense form of love that can border on irrational or obsessive behavior. In the context of relationships, mania is characterized by extreme emotions, possessiveness, and a strong desire for closeness with the beloved.  While mania shares some characteristics with eros, it differs in intensity and may involve feelings of jealousy, anxiety, and possessive behavior. 

Notes: Bulgarian rose, red apple, lychee, whiskey, gun powder, suede, musk, tonka, amber oud.

Ingredients: Alcohol (Denat.), Fragrance (Parfum), Water (Aqua), Linalool, Limonene, Citronellol, Geraniol, Citral, Vanillin, Coumarin.

A brief review and fitting story from Hadassah Trainor:

"There’s a rose that only grows where the forest stops pretending to be kind. Crimson, glistening, and rumored to taste like hard truth..beautiful, but anything but harmless. She’s irrational, extreme, all consuming. Passion with no restraint. Snow White once found her and wove her into a crown before biting into the apple she was never meant to touch. The one she secretly grew. The one she was warned to avoid. The bite that turned her world into Mania a version of her story no one tells. Mania is the deadly union of that hidden rose and that forsaken apple. And the very first bite is unreal, the most perfect blend of Bulgarian rose and red apple. Not layered, not battling. One heartbeat. Then lychee slips in, juicy and tempting, like the moment she realizes she’s already in too deep. And of course, she bites deeper. Whiskey rushes in hot and reckless. Gunpowder follows without warning. Suede pretends softness but doesn’t allow her to run. Every note folds into the next with zero edges flawlessly, intrinsically blended. It feels conjured, not composed or crafted. But the dry down… that’s where she’s claimed. Amber oud, musk, tonka..possessive and deliberate. Nothing fades. Nothing is lost.  This story of Snow White is better suited for another day, but I will tell you how this fairy tale ends..and it’s not with a prince waking her from some sad slumber. Because inside Mania, something happened..she stopped waiting to be rescued from herself. By claiming the taboo rose and biting the forbidden apple, she realized her hunger wasn’t a curse..it was her crown. Her love was always meant to be consuming, a little unhinged, edged in thorns. Without Mania, it would’ve stayed tamed and unseen. So when the prince arrived, ready to play hero, he didn’t find a girl in glass. He found a queen, wide awake, pulse vivid, mouth stained red who never needed his kiss to begin with.  Whose mania rescued him."