Freeze in Flames

RiiFFs Freeze in Flames is built on a contradiction and does not try to hide it. Raspberry lands first, cold and tart, with passionfruit and red apple piling in behind it and bergamot cutting a line through the middle. Spearmint is what makes the name earn itself, an icy snap laid over the fruit that genuinely reads as frost rather than sweetness. Lavender, tea and sage take the heart and pull it somewhere drier and more grown-up, and then cedarwood, musk and amber close it out with a warm, magnetic trail that has almost nothing to do with the opening. It is an extrait de parfum, so the concentration is high and the transitions are slow, and the fire and ice idea plays out over hours rather than minutes.