The slow dance: A rite-of-passage moment for both girls and boys before they metamorphose into women and men. A feeling of exhilaration tempered by awkwardness; a heady collision of innocence and experience, knowing and not knowing felt across countries, cultures and time. It is with this in mind that Byredo presents Slow Dance, an evocation of memory and desire from a male perspective, to be worn by either gender. A scent that mixes ideas of the feminine and masculine, bitter and sweet in a rich, intoxicating distillation redolent of warm skin and breathless exchange. Here, high school clichés mingle and become something more; at once familiar and iconoclastic, the ancient perfumer’s arsenal is made modern and anew.
