Lampblack EDP

$135.00 USD
Lampblack 30 ML

A top seller year after year, Lampblack is a fusion of darkness and light. Inky cypriol root blends with sweet orange, bitter grapefruit, and crisp black pepper, creating an industrial-chic atmosphere. The scent conjures a printmaker's studio with some oud wafting in the air.

Sophisticated and refined, this scent balances woody-smokey notes with bright, colorful contrasts.

Our break-out fragrance, awarded four stars by Luca Turin, Lampblack remains a perennial fan favorite.

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Lampblack launched my career as a perfumer. I created it for an exhibition of small ink paintings that featured opaque, black India Ink contrasting with transparent, vivid colors. The art was dark and shadowy but also glowed with light and color.

Lampblack gets its name from Lampblack pigment which is used to make India Ink. Historically, it was made with soot collected from oil-burning lamps.

For the fragrance, I developed an accord that smelled like ink. I used the essential oil of nagarmotha, a root related to vetiver, which has a slight petroleum odor. I wanted it to have the almost industrial smell of a printmaker's workshop. As a contrast, I added a sparkling citrus accord to give it shimmering brightness.
Sweet orange, black pepper, bitter grapefruit, nagarmotha, benzoin, vetiver, inky notes.

Sophisticated cocktails. Brisk autumn evenings. Chance encounters in city streets.

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TFM
New favorite

Love this (as does my partner). Found the description to be spot on and the scent very wearable and long-lasting.

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Katthieu
My absolute fave!

It's the perfect blend of smoke and incense-like spice top noting over the jet black ink of a print shop. This has become part of my daily ritual and the last thing I put on each time I leave the house. I have yet to NOT be complimented on this scent whenever I wear it - it's THAT GOOD. Now I'm stuck in the hellish internal debate of "tell everyone so this indie scent-maker continues to thrive" and "keep it my secret so I eternally remain the sexiest smelling of all my friends." ;)

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YHL
sophisticated, inky, mesmerizing

This is as inky as promised, and like no other perfume I've tried - sooty, sophisticated, just the merest tantalizing touch of sweetness combined with tarry depth and the right amount of effervescence from the citrus notes. It makes me think of cities at night when the neon lights blaze and the steel burns hot, and it lasts for hours like a kiss of polished chrome. I bought this on the recommendation of a friend and I'm hooked.

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Woz
yummy smell

reminds me of being in the print studio in college and going to do dabs in the gender neutral bathrooms but with less drama and neurotoxic chemicals. i like to wear it when im going to hang out with someone i have intense sexual tension with

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Joseph R.
I LOVE IT

This is such a non-conformists fragrance, rejoice! Up front its instantly unique, I love it. Initial notes of grapefruit vinyl shower curtain just pop, that's the wow factor, then over time, it mellows into a more organic set of aromas but never loses that inspirational ignition. I love it, my wife not so much, which in some sort of odd way makes me love it even more. Obviously, I'm a creative who lives and works around products where aroma, taste and time are meaningful, It feels like LampBlack was made especially for me. Bravo!