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Perseids
When the Perseids come, always in August, the night sky drips down to earth in beeswax-soft golden tears. I lie back in the lush green
Summer night flower dream and look up into the starry vault. With me, all the night bloomers turn their flower faces towards the stars. The night lilies so cinnamon-powdery, the petunias as dark as the background of the night sky, the stargazer lilies with their pink-white speckles, the star jasmine. Civet daffodils devoutly exude their fragrance into the earthly-celestial gathering. The fragrant stars down here sparkle lily-colored upwards, and the stars in the firmament turn towards them until they meet in tender constellations. Finally, ylang and jasmine are reverently silent until more and more shooting stars rain down in musky-soft, luminous trails, down into the resinous mosses.
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A beautiful night floral fragrance, described by some as chypre, which only partly describes it, as it consists of a floral-amber spectacle. At first absolutely ravishing in combination with juicy-green and beeswax drops, later floral-powdery-leathery-delicate-animalic. Yet consistently as soft as the most beautiful vintage fragrances. For me, there is a hint of immortelle in the spiciness, but that could also be the night lavender accord, which is strong and wonderfully well-honed here. In any case, the spiciness stops short of Maggi and adds depth. In addition, there is a vintage analgesic, consisting of civet and fine dirty musk.
Dawn Spencer-Hurwitz cites as an inspiration for her fragrance composition the
1933 orchestral nocturne "Vers la voûte étoilée" (To the Starry Vault) by Charles Koechlin, which spreads out a neo-impressionist carpet of sound. Koechlin was always interested in astronomy and originally wanted to become an astronomer.
A fragrance in whose sound I can lose myself, like in the sight of the starry vault when looking at the night sky.
My biological sons were both born during the peak of the Perseids in August, and I always think of the fragility of life and the wonders of the cosmos when I think of the night sky, composition and this scent.
Charles Koechlin: Orchestral Nocturne "Vers la voûte étoilée" (1933):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL14P35y8gk
Top Notes 
Aldehydes
Bergamot
Pimento
Tunisian neroli
Heart Notes 
Stargazer lily
French beeswax
Jasminum grandiflorum
Ylang-ylang absolute
Black petunia
Cinnamon
Clove
Matthiola bicornis
Narcissus absolute
Rosa centifolia absolute
Star jasmine
Base Notes 
Myrrh
Oakmoss
Australian sandalwood
Civet
East Indian patchouli
Musk
