The Story
Why it exists.
The beginning
Brucia In Me was launched in 2025 by Maison Incens, with the composition credited to perfumer Eric Gigodot. The fragrance came from a collaboration with content creator Rocco d'Orazio and was available exclusively in Italy at launch. Its composition pairs bold resin, smoke, and earth with the softer pull of coconut, florals, sweetness, and musk. The result is incense shaped by contrasting textures: resinous darkness sits against creamy coconut, while smoke and earth give the scent warmth and depth. Floral notes soften the sharper edges, and musk leaves the composition close and quietly enveloping. It is an incense fragrance that feels layered without losing the contrast between its darker materials and its sweeter notes.
The unusual part is the collision of materials that usually live in separate perfume worlds. Frankincense and smoke bring resin and charcoal, coconut gives the opening a creamy tropical turn, and jasmine and orchid keep the floral heart from feeling too solemn. Patchouli anchors the earthy base, while vanilla, gourmand notes, and musk make the drydown sensual and skin-close. Nothing here is a simple linear incense effect; the composition keeps changing its temperature and texture.
The evolution
Brucia In Me starts with a clear tension: coconut's creamy sweetness cuts through frankincense, fruit, and green notes. That opening feels fresh enough to catch attention, but the resin and smoke keep it from becoming a simple tropical fragrance. As jasmine, orchid, floral notes, and spice settle in, the composition becomes more articulate. Orchid brings a polished floral edge, jasmine adds a pointed brightness, and the spicy notes push the sweetness into warmer territory. The base is where the scent becomes properly intimate. Patchouli supplies an earthy dark note, smoke adds a dry mineral streak, and musk, vanilla, gourmand notes, and animalic notes make the final hours feel close to skin. The composition moves from the lift of coconut, fruit, and green notes into a warmer structure shaped by resin, spice, florals, smoke, patchouli, and sweet base notes.
Cultural impact
Brucia In Me is presented through a collaboration between Maison Incens and content creator Rocco d'Orazio, with its launch availability limited to Italy. That pairing places the fragrance within a creator-led presentation while keeping attention on the scent itself. Its composition brings together incense, resins, smoke, coconut, florals, spice, patchouli, musk, vanilla, gourmand notes, and animalic notes. The contrast between dark resinous materials and softer sweet notes gives the release a distinctive place in contemporary fragrance, offering an incense-centered experience shaped by collaboration and a restricted initial market.
The House
Maison IncensMaison Incens is a French niche fragrance house founded in 2013 by Philippe Constantin. The house specializes in distinctive perfumes inspired by incense traditions and aromatic heritage, creating scents that draw from raw materials with historical and cultural significance. Based in France, Maison Incens crafts its perfumes domestically, offering a collection of bold, unconventional fragrances including Coeur de Rose, Santal Tislit, Musc Dahabii, Encens Kapnos, Tubereuse Kanapii, and Brucia In Me. The house name itself references incense, one of the oldest aromatic ingredients in perfumery history, reflecting the brand's commitment to exploring deep, resinous, and traditionally significant scent profiles.
The Creator
Eric GigodotGigodot's technical foundation comes from rigorous training within a family tradition that values both discipline and creativity. He works with a range of materials, though the family's heritage suggests particular comfort with classical perfumery structures.









































