Blindfold (L'Objet, 2025)

Intimate suede

L’Objet, a luxury homeware company, recently launched a new addition to their main line of fragrances, Blindfold composed by Yann Vasnier. It is a very refined, wearable take on an animalic fragrance, and my preference when it comes to musky fragrances rather than veering into the laundry associations.

It is very intimate and skin-like from a high proportion of musks, with well-dosed animal product substitutes that suggest a slight lack of cleanliness and intimacy but not overtly offensive.

There is a massive suede note, somewhat cedar and phenolic softened by a coumarinic and slightly milky sandalwood touch, even slightly cosmetic with a spicy facet, in the direction of saffron contributing to the suede effect.

While it does not resemble nor attempt to resemble Ménardo’s Bulgari Black (1998), it explores the same type of leather in odour space and is also a very enveloping fragrance. For something straightforward and in that style, it is worth a sniff.