Flow

What separates Flow from a standard floral gourmand is the inclusion of absinthe wormwood among the opening notes, an ingredient uncommon enough to register. Its presence introduces a cool, slightly bitter character that sits alongside peach and freesia rather than dissolving into them, which gives the opening a sharper edge than the heart and base will later suggest. The composition never tilts fully into syrup or sweetness because that opening sharpness keeps pulling things back toward something drier.

The evolution

Flow opens with a quick lift of freesia and peach, bright and rounded, but the wormwood is already present from the first spray, lending the fruit a drier, more herbal undertone than the peach alone would suggest. The green of the freesia and the cool bitterness of wormwood together create an opening that feels almost crisp, the kind of introduction that earns attention rather than asking for it. Within a short stretch, iris begins to surface, its powdery coolness replacing the brighter green of the freesia while the peach softens and recedes from fruit into something warmer and more diffuse. Rose enters at this stage too, though never loudly, layering its softness over the iris rather than competing with it. Sandalwood arrives next, creamy against the iris's chill, and the composition begins to feel less like an opening act and more like a settled middle.