04/14/2024
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I will build my love a tower
I've been looking forward to visiting Jessica Buchanan and her brand "1000 Flowers" all day, I already know that I want her Pink Pepper Wood and spend a long time talking to her, feeling at home in her lovingly designed little boutique on Place aux Aires in Grasse. At the very end, I discover Ode (2021) and am immediately taken with it. This fragrance is much more complex than the much more uniform but also very well composed Pink Pepper. I decide on Ode (2021) just as quickly.
Yesterday and today, I immerse myself in this world again and again. It opens up warm and soft, but it has secrets. Clary sage plays on the strings of an acoustic guitar, after a cheerful bergamot and orange intro, marjoram and thyme play bass lines, incense and labdanum, fine oud create a delicate friction as if with fine brooms on the floor toms. I perceive the vibrations in the cedar sandalwood floor on which my cheek lies, vetiver gently rubs sticks together. Oak moss plays a calm bass line. Then myrrh raises a delicate, comforting melody and fades away. Later, it joins in again. Wistfulness, serenity, tranquillity, passion, warmth, longing, a quiet sadness, gratitude all come together here.
Ode (2021) is part of the first "Collection Originale" by Jessica Buchanan. She composed it in 2012 and apparently reformulated it in 2021. I haven't spoken to her about the latter yet and I'm planning to do so. An ode is a solemn poem. She was inspired by a love story in which different cultures meet and merge, according to her website. I see the green winter forests of Canada and oriental fragrances whose essences meet in a small mountain town in the south of France. There is passion and tender rapprochement, strangeness and merging and a lot of relationship work. Now there is harmony and passion, the result of many years of coming together. While immortelle, myrrh and frankincense seemed to take center stage in the 2013 creation, this small orchestra of green, resinous and woody timbres is the result of eight years of relationship. The tart notes of clary sage and resins become stronger over time, with the myrrh echoing again and again. It is a fragrance that I can immerse myself in, that allows me to yearn with its healthy vitality, that gives me the courage to open the door to love.
"I will build my love a tower, by the foot of yonder fountain and on it I'll put all the flowers of the mountain, will ye go, lassie, go" goes the Irish folk song "Wild mountain thyme". In Jessica Buchanan's ode, summer love has matured into a fulfilling, living bond that speaks to each other and whose secrets radiate something uplifting.
Incidentally, the flacon shown is the miniature. The large flacon is designed like their others.
Yesterday and today, I immerse myself in this world again and again. It opens up warm and soft, but it has secrets. Clary sage plays on the strings of an acoustic guitar, after a cheerful bergamot and orange intro, marjoram and thyme play bass lines, incense and labdanum, fine oud create a delicate friction as if with fine brooms on the floor toms. I perceive the vibrations in the cedar sandalwood floor on which my cheek lies, vetiver gently rubs sticks together. Oak moss plays a calm bass line. Then myrrh raises a delicate, comforting melody and fades away. Later, it joins in again. Wistfulness, serenity, tranquillity, passion, warmth, longing, a quiet sadness, gratitude all come together here.
Ode (2021) is part of the first "Collection Originale" by Jessica Buchanan. She composed it in 2012 and apparently reformulated it in 2021. I haven't spoken to her about the latter yet and I'm planning to do so. An ode is a solemn poem. She was inspired by a love story in which different cultures meet and merge, according to her website. I see the green winter forests of Canada and oriental fragrances whose essences meet in a small mountain town in the south of France. There is passion and tender rapprochement, strangeness and merging and a lot of relationship work. Now there is harmony and passion, the result of many years of coming together. While immortelle, myrrh and frankincense seemed to take center stage in the 2013 creation, this small orchestra of green, resinous and woody timbres is the result of eight years of relationship. The tart notes of clary sage and resins become stronger over time, with the myrrh echoing again and again. It is a fragrance that I can immerse myself in, that allows me to yearn with its healthy vitality, that gives me the courage to open the door to love.
"I will build my love a tower, by the foot of yonder fountain and on it I'll put all the flowers of the mountain, will ye go, lassie, go" goes the Irish folk song "Wild mountain thyme". In Jessica Buchanan's ode, summer love has matured into a fulfilling, living bond that speaks to each other and whose secrets radiate something uplifting.
Incidentally, the flacon shown is the miniature. The large flacon is designed like their others.
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