~THE VAMPIRE LESTAT~
All Fall Down
Aged black leather, velvet roses, sweet plum, silvered lily, gunpowder, smoky amber, and white musk.
Armand
White musk, iris, and frankincense unfolding like a prayer — then resinous wood, blackened clove, and blood-dark incense beneath, beautiful and quietly monstrous.
Black Licorice
Black licorice and black plum, champagne fizz over labdanum and benzoin, and rosin-slick leather.
Butterscotch Bitch
Scorched butterscotch dipped in red labdanum and cognac, with a sting of saffron, pink pepper, and woodsmoke.
Daniel
Tabac and old cologne in wool, espresso and ink, cedar and static, cold metallic air before dawn — a brilliant mind running on whiskey and dangerous questions.
Gabriella
Worn leather and pale lily drifting through a moss-thick forest, silvered sage and mountain air, and the ghost of an 18th-century Italian perfume.
La Fontaine de Sang
Crimson rose, black cherry, garnet wine, velvet pomegranate, dark patchouli, smoked labdanum, antique mahogany, and a drop of red musk.
Lelio
White carnations, orris butter, white rose, heliotrope, sugared almond blossom, bourbon vanilla, Venetian musk, pale sandalwood, beeswax, and a flourish of bergamot.
Lestat
Cognac, aged beeswax, leonine amber and feral musk, Medieval church wood, incense, black leather, and sweet brandy.
The Loneliness
Black leather, clove smoke, crimson amber, black patchouli, and the last curl of extinguished incense.
Long Face
Ambergris-tinged spotlights and stage sweat, crushed gold velvet and greasepaint, leather, frankincense, and an orris-cold sorrow that predates the spotlight by centuries.
Louis
Scorched sandalwood, bitter coffee, osmanthus,bay rum, magnolia, dry patchouli, and the hot spiced sweetness of blood, quietly seething.
Nicki
Weathered violin wood, black velvet, beeswax, bruised violet, wine-soaked iris, and chilled silver amber.
Vampire DJ of Some Renown
Dry ice and synthetic fog, dark rum and patchouli, ozonic sweetness over black amber, blood-crusted clove, and incense worn into stone.
Why Do I Have to Feel
White cognac and torn paper, rain-bruised iris and osmanthus, night cereus and aged oak, black musk swallowing itself.
Wolfkiller
Frost-hardened pine, snow-covered cedar, black spruce pitch, wolf musk, torn leather, iron-bright blood, cold stone, red velvet, and amber fire.
~ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE~
Adam
Black leather and pale sandalwood, ambergris and faded fougère, rosin and old wood, musty wool and magnetic tape.
Ava
Voluptuous and brittle, lovely and toxic: sheer vanilla musk with tuberose, red mandarin, and the sweet poison of white almond.
Blood Popsicle
The scent of frozen Type O negative.
Café Mille et une Nuits
Shisha and thick coffee brewed with cardamom pods, cinnamon, clove, black pepper, and nutmeg.
The Diamond’s Gong
Ten billion-trillion-trillion-carats of glittering white musk, with cognac, tagetes, white champaca, Gum Arabic, and davana.
Diamond Star
Ambergris accord, guiac wood, white benzoin, immortelle, and Somalian myrrh.
The Edge of Doom
The night flight from Tangier: drops of spilled blood color the antiseptic, bland, plastic paleness of the fuselage, with violet leaf for longing, rosemary for reminiscences, and black opoponax for apprehension.
Eve
Irish moss and hawthorn, Roman honey and omphacium, Egyptian myrrh, Florentine frankincense and damask rose, white sandalwood, saffron and rosewater.
Funnel of Love
17-year aged black patchouli, champaca flower, cardamom bud, green coriander, Haitian vetiver, red vegetal musk, black pepper, night-blooming jasmine, and leather.
Hal
Saffron-infused bourbon vanilla, blackened honey, Kashmir wood, Atlas cedar, ambrette seed, hay, and Egyptian jasmine absolute.
The Hourglass
The white roses and orange blossoms of hope penetrating despair’s black fog of opoponax, black myrrh, bruised violet, clove, funereal lily, and grief-struck carrot seed.
Ian
A flicker of hero worship, tempered by naivety and an innately kind nature: shaggy leather, sweet rum absolute, and patchouli.
In Templum Dei
Oman frankincense, cistus labdanum, white sandalwood, and liquidambar.
June 23, 1868
Moonflower, Nottingham catchfly, Casablanca lily, evening primrose, night-blooming cereus, Queen of the Night, muted by the sepia tones of tonka, tobacco absolute, bourbon vanilla, and costus.
Kit
Mysore sandalwood a tattered and patched 16th century waistcoat, inkstained, still scented with the marjoram and benzoin dry perfumes of his youth.
Our Hearts Condemn Us
Keralan teakwood, Bulgarian rose otto, Himalayan cedar, and oudh.
Quintessence of Dust
The passing: beeswax and smoke, yellowed paper and well-worn leather books, droplets of spilled ink, faded incense, blood-tinged salty tears, and the metal of the knife that skewers that illiterate zombie philistine’s portrait.
Shelley, Byron, and Keats
Red roses and pale carnation with a draught of laudanum, smears of opium tar, a hint of absinthe, and mercury ointment.
Spooky Action at a Distance
Instantaneous correlated action between entangled partners: rose-infused sandalwood with violet leaf, frankincense, geranium rose, and a spark of elemi.
Streets of Detroit
Black musk accord, Ethiopian myrrh, and motor oil.
There’s Water Here
The wild glory of nature bursting through cement, metal, and urban despair, purified by the waters of Lake St. Clair.
This is Your Wilderness
Honeyed patchouli with cypress, black pine, and tobacco absolute.
Wooden Bullet
A .38 caliber bullet fashioned from cocobolo wood and brass.
