TOP NOTES: Bergamot, Incense, Pink Pepper
HEART NOTES: Suede, Iris, Rose
BASE NOTES: Australian Sandalwood, Madagascar Vanilla, Musk, Benzoin, Tonka Bean
In the Book of One Thousand and One Nights there is this wonderful expression addressed to a loved one: to say "soul of my soul", which means the emptiness of life without love.
I remember the warm voice of Aladdin – crackling from a gramophone at 45 rpm – speaking to Badroulboudour. He calls her “my princess, the soul of my soul.” I was 7 years old at the time and asked my mother about the meaning of the soul.
She replied, "There is no single definition. It is an invisible presence that connects us to the divine, a bit like the vanilla trail of a perfume that you want to follow. The soul travels infinitely through time and space and connects us to the whole. It is a fragment of what is beautiful and perfect in each of us that returns to heaven and remains on earth when we disappear. The perfume continues the presence of that fragment, and the soul does the same."
A few years later, thanks to the constant reading of the Book of One Thousand and One Nights, I learned that the relationship with the body is nothing without the relationship with the soul, although for some sensuality seemed to be an excellent substitute for the soul. Embracing each other can be an innovative way of instilling in each other a drop of the white and cosmic soul that flowed into the primordial ocean before the world was created. Here we have a perfume that speaks of the fire god of Persia and the gods of India, of the cult of sacrifices, Mesopotamia, milk and clarified butter in honor of the gods. And to remember, through the awakening in the air, the foamy whiteness of the soul that comes from everything. Here the perfume is the soul, the soul is the perfume. A creamy explosion in which musk mixes with iris butter and transmits a strong vanilla balsam, followed by the friction of Tonka on benzoin.
I'm sticking with musk.
ALCOHOL DENAT., PARFUM (FRAGRANCE), AQUA (WATER), LIMONENE, LINALOOL, COUMARIN, CITRONELLOL, ALPHA-ISOMETHYL IONONE, GERANIOL, ISOEUGENOL, CITRAL, EUGENOL, BENZYL BENZOATE, FARNESOL.
