Pink Peppercorn, Cardamom, and Cedar: Troye Sivan's New Scent 'Smells Like the Hot Boyfriend I Don't Have'

Troye Sivan's "Sweat" tour isn't the only aromatic project he's been working on; the Aussie pop star has a new fragrance that gives him "visions of beautiful couples and new love."

Chatting with Paper Magazine about the new scent, which is called By Your Side, Sivan explained how "music and fragrance are probably the most immediate" sensory stimuli for him, and mused on how he has a synesthetic response to scent, "seeing" its colors.

Part of Sivan's Tsu Lange Yor line of lifestyle products, the new fragrance encapsulates moods that transcend eros, the singer suggested.

"By Your Side, when we first started working on it, there's something unbelievably romantic about it," the pop star shared. "I think it's how genuinely unisex it feels. It feels effortlessly feminine and masculine at the same time. It's very hot and evocative to me, and it felt close."

"Also, the pink peppercorn in it is such a fun thing to play with."

The new fragrance doesn't simply fade away in no time, but "really sticks," Sivan told the outlet.

"I would put on a jumper or a T-shirt that I was wearing when I was testing out the fragrance, and I would put it on a day or two days later and it smelled like the hot boyfriend that I don't have," the "Rush" singer related. "I'm like, 'Damn, this is something really special.'"

Added Sivan, "There's this immediate feeling of young love and how intoxicating that can be. The scent immediately leapt out as that."

"I always find it crazy when people talk about synesthesia, it's an interesting idea to me," the "My My My" singer explained. "But I genuinely do, especially with scent, feel like I can see what it looks like."

Explaining his process for coming up with the fragrance, Sivan told Paper, "Sometimes you start with a singular ingredient or a singular idea, and sometimes it's a combination of things. With By Your Side, the pink peppercorn was the starting point. Then the cardamom really warms it up. And I always love a woody base, I think that's really sexy, so it's got cedar wood in it."

There's nothing like the sense of smell to prompt a flashback to a memory, and it's no surprise there's a natural aspect to the new scent. Sivan related his love of how trees smell, saying that "Australian trees, like Eucalyptus" have a nostalgic effect on him.

"There are these piney smelling trees there, I don't know what they're called, but if I was to smell that, that would immediately take me back," the pop star shared. "There were so many of them around my old house that I grew up in."

But a fragrance also has to have an immediacy, especially if it's going to communicate a sense of intimacy.

"When I think of something sexy, I think of something sort of second skin-like," Sivan related. "There's something to be said for subtlety and something that's not too perfumey."

"Again, it's also sexy when people are not afraid to play with the feminine and the masculine."

Adding to the sexy quotient is a fragrance's ability to work with, not dominate, a person's natural scent.

"There's so much space to play in this interesting way that says a lot about you, and there's a middle ground that I find mysterious and cool and playful," Sivan said. "I love to switch it up and also mix-and-match. Scent is really personal, so that's the other thing: Something that still allows your natural scent to shine."