After Hours

After Hours is the brand's scent of poisonous flowers, a fragrance it calls beautiful, forbidden and impossible to resist. It was made in 2017 as an exclusive for a London department store, started from scratch rather than from the perfumer's archive, and is now sold by the brand as an eau de parfum in 30 and 150 ml. Ylang-ylang, freesia and neroli open it, and the heart is a narcotic mix of datura and belladonna with oud, vetiver and rosewood, with hemlock in the current copy. Patchouli, benzoin, olibanum and musk give a warm, sensual trail. A review finds a rush of ylang ylang and neroli with a floral oud, a sweet benzoin that gives way to a woodier olibanum and a vetiver that shines through. One wearer finds the florals dangerous and poisonous, joined to a medicinal oud, like a true witches brew. There is little wear evidence: the few votes split on longevity, the sillage is mostly moderate, and every time-of-day vote but one says night. Autumn and winter take every season vote, although one wearer notes others find it a bright spring scent. It is listed as unisex and a review says it defies gender classification. It is a challenging, provocative scent for evenings and the colder months, for wearers who want something uninhibited and a little dark.