The Story
Why it exists.
The beginning
Chris Bull built STILL around the uncomplicated joy of childhood adventures, the kind of memories that arrive before you know they're precious. Jumping in a puddle while holding someone's hand. Wishing a frog would turn into a Prince. Sneaking a swim in a rainstorm despite what Mom said. Sailing down a river on a paper boat, dodging rapids and rocks. The 2025 release translates that rush of small rebellion and open water into scent, letting the composition carry what the words leave unsaid.
The note structure explains the brief better than any adjective could. Earthy notes and grass place you at ground level, close to mud and clippings. Metallic notes add the flash of a storm front, the sense of weather changing overhead. Then oyster and melon bring in something wet and living, not a clean shower but a river after rain. White musk and woody notes keep the whole thing grounded rather than letting the aquatic side drift into abstraction.
The evolution
The opening arrives straight from the ground, damp earth and crushed grass with a metallic edge that catches the air like lightning. Soil is there, but it's not the whole picture. As the first minutes pass, oyster and melon surface, and the scent becomes less like a landscape and more like a memory of swimming, cold water slipping over skin. The melon never turns overtly sweet. It stays cool, fleshy, faintly salty. What lingers is the quiet part: white musk and woody notes folding everything into a quieter, skin-close finish. The drydown reads like the river after you stop watching it, and like clothes pulled from a damp chair the next morning.
Cultural impact
STILL sits in the growing appetite for fragrances that describe weather and place rather than decorate the wearer. Its green-aquatic profile lands in the same cultural space as rain-focused compositions, but the oyster note pulls it toward something more mineral and grown-up. Wearers describe it as transportive, one of the more convincing rain scents in circulation, and the kind of scent people reach for when they want to smell like a specific afternoon rather than a general mood.
The House
cbcb fragrancesCBCB Fragrances is an independent fragrance house founded by perfumer Chris Bull. The house builds each scent around a narrative, describing its compositions as personal documents and olfactory translations. That premise gives the catalogue a clear point of view: fragrance becomes a way to explore stories, memories, and ideas that language leaves unfinished. The range includes GUN GIRL, STILL, PAST LOVERS, Sweetie, DIVERSION, all released in 2020, and COMRADE, which arrived in 2026. The name CBCB derives from its founder's initials. The brand presents itself through a distinct visual identity and a collection of perfumes designed to be discovered one at a time, rather than through the language of mass-market launches.
The Creator
Chris BullBull’s style is expressive, narrative, and open to experimentation, with more than 400 creations demonstrating a broad range of ideas. His work draws on the sensory vocabulary of music: contrast, rhythm, layering, and the movement between distinct impressions.
