The Story
Why it exists.
The beginning
One More Kiss arrives in 2026 from the boutique house Elixir Attar, composed by perfumer Günel Mostafa. The composition is built around a sense of charged proximity, that suspended second when two people are close enough to share breath. Mostafa constructs the fragrance in three movements: a bright, almost bitten opening, a floral heart that deepens and blurs, and a base of animalic warmth that lingers with conviction. The opening crackles with tart raspberry and tarragon, neroli and bergamot bright enough to feel bitten. By the time the heart surrenders, jasmine and narcissus have blurred into something almost narcotic. And underneath it all, the raw, dirty truth of civet and Thai oud settling into skin.
What makes this composition worth attention is the honesty of its animalic base. Civet and Thai oud aren't decorative accents here, they're the architecture. The fruity-floral opening could belong to a dozen modern amber florals, but the drydown pulls into territory most contemporary fragrances avoid: genuinely sweaty, slightly feral, dense with oakmoss and patchouli. The rose and jasmine heart acts as bridge, translating the bright green-spice top into the musk-and-oud base without a visible seam.
The evolution
The opening is almost mischievous. Raspberry and tarragon give it a herbal-fruity snap that feels alive on skin, neroli curling at the edges like citrus peel catching light. Then the florals arrive. Rose and jasmine don't float here, they push through. Narcissus adds a green-honey density, ylang-ylang turns the sweetness toward something heavier. The composition pivots into its true register: civet, musk, and Thai oud take hold with real insistence. This is where the fragrance becomes itself, animalic and warm, with sandalwood and oakmoss giving the base a mossy earthiness. The shift from bright top to narcotic heart happens gradually, the neroli and bergamot retreating in stages rather than vanishing, leaving traces of their citrus bite woven into the floral core.
Cultural impact
One More Kiss arrives as an unabashedly animalic composition in a fragrance landscape where such materials have become increasingly rare. Civet and Thai oud anchor the base with a warmth and feral edge that recalls a different era of perfumery, when animalic notes were treated as essential architecture rather than shocking flourishes. The jasmine and narcissus heart carries its own historical weight, evoking the indolic florals that defined classic floral orientals and that have largely been smoothed away in contemporary mainstream releases.
