As a movement, the Decadents were philosophers of pleasure. They sought elegance, but not for itself as the Dandies did, but for the pleasure it brought. Although the Decadents sought pleasure in every form, they especially pursued traditionally forbidden pleasures, the joys of which they relayed though lushly erotic art and literature that scandalized the staid Victorian bourgeois.
A hedonistic hymn of spiced black rum, Russian vodka, intoxicating cacao, honied tobacco, dark amber, vanilla infused opium, pheromone drenched musks, and a dangerously seductive tease of leather.
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