The Story
Why it exists.
The beginning
Strange Days arrived in 2020. Sucreabeille built it as a scent for protection, pulling on herbs long associated with shelter and warding: angelica and clary sage and wormwood, the botanicals people once burned or carried during plague years. Copal resin and myrrh anchor the same tradition, smoke and sweetness offered upward. Then the composition pivots, threading red mandarin, pink peppercorn, and tiare through the solemnity, a brightness that refuses to sit still. The result is a fragrance that takes ancient shelter-building seriously and then lets the window open. It's the kind of scent that feels older than its label, herbal and resinous at the base but threaded through with enough citrus and spice to keep it moving.
The unusual move here is the juxtaposition. Wormwood sits in the same room as ginger ale and tiare, and somehow the room holds. Mimosa absolute softens the herbal edges, copal brings the church-candle warmth, and the aldehydes add a sparkling lift that catches the light differently with every shift of the wrist. None of the notes dominate; they circle each other, taking turns at the front of the stage. It's a composition that wants to be smelled in layers, each one recalibrating what you thought the last one meant. The herbal cool of wormwood against the creamy floral of tiare.
The evolution
The first ten minutes are almost aggressive in their clarity. Grapefruit and red mandarin hit bright, the ginger ale note lending a carbonated prickle that sits somewhere between a cocktail and a cleaner. Aldehydes flash through like a struck match, then settle. Somewhere around the twenty-minute mark the herbal heart arrives, clary sage and angelica and wormwood folding over the citrus like fog rolling in off water. The mimosa absolute adds a honeyed pollen quality that makes the whole thing feel sunlit despite the murky green underneath. By the second hour, the resins take command. Copal warms and thickens, myrrh adds its bitter medicinal sweetness, and the tiare flower drifts through like a memory of somewhere tropical you can't quite place. The drydown is where Strange Days becomes itself: close, resinous, faintly sweet, with a mossy green edge that keeps revealing itself in waves.
Cultural impact
Strange Days was created to mark the unique and challenging times we are living in, according to the brand's own description. The scent leans directly into that framing, built around herbs and resins that historical traditions associated with warding off illness and bringing shelter into uncertain seasons. Within Sucreabeille's catalog, it sits alongside other concept-driven compositions, fragrances that arrive with a clear intention and a story attached. Wearers tend to describe it in experiential language, the scent of carrying something with you, which feels fitting for a composition built on protective botanicals.
