Bacio di Fuoco
Désir No. II · Italian for kiss of fire · Spiced · floral
A kiss of fire: the Désir you give when you mean it. Warm, close, a little dangerous.
If you leave the scent to us: Kashmiri saffron (Pampore, Kashmir) × Golden wattle (Southern Tablelands, NSW). Or compose your own from twenty-four materials, twelve from India and twelve from Australia, and choose your wax: soy, the coconut and rapeseed house blend, beeswax, or granulated sand.
₹2,800 in India · A$60 in Australia, taxes and delivery included · Grande 1.4 kg ₹8,900 / A$190. Made to order, 3–5 days.
A note from the house
This is the one people give when they mean it. It changes the temperature of a room the way a struck match changes a cold one: a flash, then a warmth that stays. Saffron from Pampore and the powder-sweetness of golden wattle are only the how.
Made most often for someone else; rarely for oneself.
— Désir · Gurgaon
The story
A kiss of fire is a small thing that changes the temperature of a room. Saffron does exactly that: a few threads and the whole dish is another colour. Pampore's saffron smells of leather, honey and iodine, a scent that is almost a taste.
Golden wattle blooms in late winter, a haze of powder-yellow along every road. Its mimosa sweetness is the softness the saffron needs; together they smell like the moment a match is struck in a cold room.
Light it for someone. It is the Désir most often given, and the one that started the conversations that made us.
