The Story
Why it exists.
The beginning
Inspired by the dream of an alpine snowboarder, this fragrance captures a specific moment of paradox: the rush of adrenaline descending a mountain, followed by the sudden stillness when everything goes quiet. Perfumer Soïzic Beaucourt translated that feeling into scent, the cold air hitting warm skin, the body still humming with exertion while the landscape around it settles into perfect calm. Released in 2024, Breathe Out 01.02 is part of NEYDO's approach of treating each fragrance as a fragment of unconscious memory made tangible. The title says it all. Breathe out, the act of releasing, of letting go after holding something tight. On an exhale, your breath fogs in cold air. Inside that fog is warmth, salt, the trace of effort. That's what this fragrance asks you to imagine.
What makes Breathe Out 01.02 work is the way it bridges two opposing states without resolving them. The marine and davana top create an aromatic clarity, cold, mineral, almost clinical in their precision. But the salt note isn't purely oceanic. It's the salt of skin, of steam, of geysers mentioned in the inspiration. Elemi adds a lemony-resinous lift that keeps the opening from being austere. The heart is where warmth arrives, but slowly. Cardamom's spice builds gradually against the chill. Frangipani brings a tropical creaminess that feels unexpected against the alpine setting. Ambrette, a plant-based musk, adds a quiet intimacy.
The evolution
The opening hits cold and sharp, marine accord cutting through with davana's herbaceous bite and elemi's lemony resin. Sea salt reads as mineral, not sweet. This phase lasts about 30 minutes and it's clean, almost medicinal in its precision. The kind of clarity that makes you breathe deeper. Then the warmth starts. Cardamom arrives first, a slow spice that builds against the chill rather than overwhelming it. Frangipani's tropical creaminess emerges, softened by ambrette's musky floral quality. The incense begins to thread through, not as smoke in your face, but like you can smell a fire somewhere in the valley below. Here's the interesting part: the marine doesn't disappear. It becomes the backdrop, the cold air that holds everything else. The contrast is the point. By hour three, the warmth has fully arrived. Musk and sandalwood take over with amber adding sweetness and cashmere wood providing softness. The incense lingers. This is the intimate phase, close to the skin, fading slowly over the next several hours. On fabric, faint traces persist into the next day.
Cultural impact
Breathe Out 01.02 sits in an interesting space, aquatic enough to be accessible, warm enough to be distinctive. Released in 2024, it arrived in a market saturated with either clean marine fragrances or heavy oud compositions. This one asks for something different: patience, and an appreciation for contradiction. The snowboarder-dream narrative gives it a specific story that most aquatic fragrances lack. It's for the wearer who wants scent that breathes rather than announces.
