The Story
Why it exists.
The beginning
Satan II arrived in 2025 as part of YAMM Genève's Édition Interdite collection. The brand's perfumer, Florian Vicario, composed this piece around a collision that shouldn't work on paper: two roses pressed against oud, sweetened with caramel and strawberry, then darkened with benzoin and amber. On skin, the strawberry opens with a confectionery brightness, almost like crushed fruit spilled over sugared petals, and it sits right alongside a violet facet that adds a powdery lift. The Bulgarian rose arrives with a cool, slightly green freshness, keeping the sweetness from tipping over. As the hours pass, Turkish rose takes over with a jammy density, and the strawberry shifts from fresh fruit to something closer to preserve.
What makes Satan II feel distinct is how Florian Vicario chose to sweeten the rose-oud pairing. Strawberry brings a candy register that softens both roses while setting up a tension with the oud's depth. The Bulgarian rose opens the composition with a cool, slightly green character, almost mint-edged in its clarity, and that freshness keeps the opening from collapsing into syrup. Bulgarian rose then threads through early, keeping things lifted. Once Turkish rose arrives, the whole heart tilts warmer and denser, the strawberry now reading as jam spread thick over petals.
The evolution
The first twenty minutes belong to strawberry and violet, bright and almost confectionery, like crushed berries dusted with sugar over soft petals. Bulgarian rose threads through early, cool and slightly green, keeping things from collapsing into pure sweetness, and a faint powdery edge from the violet keeps the lift going. Then Turkish rose arrives and the whole composition tilts warmer, denser, the strawberry now reading as jam spread over petals rather than fresh fruit, and the caramel underneath starts surfacing in a slow, golden wave. Within an hour the base settles in: oud grounds everything, amber and benzoin build a resinous warmth that wraps around the florals, and caramel binds the edges with a soft, buttery sweetness that never burns. Cedar adds a quiet woodiness underneath, dry and steady, anchoring the composition.
Cultural impact
Satan II sits within the Édition Interdite collection, a YAMM Genève line introduced in 2025. The strawberry-rose-oud combination draws on a recognizable gourmand-floral vocabulary, with the candy register and dual-rose layering giving it a sweetness profile that reads distinct. The strawberry opens bright and confectionery, the violet adds a powdery lift, and the Bulgarian rose keeps things cool before Turkish rose tilts the heart warmer and jammier. As the oud, amber, and benzoin settle into the base, caramel binds everything together, and cedar adds a quiet woodiness underneath.
