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Notes10/07/2021
BrianBuchanan
355 Reviews
BrianBuchanan
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Slow decay
Autumn is a time of ripeness, the completion of the yearly cycle of growth and maturity, and so, to the weary farmer - with fields are full of waving grain - it’s a time of plenitude and celebration.
But there's another side to autumn, the decline of summer into barren winter, a shift from growth to decay, from life springing forth to its return back to the earth.
And it’s this poignant, melancholy side to autumn that Eau Lente captures, its brown resiny scent is full, over ripe, almost putrid.
It's said that the formula derives from an ancient scent known to Alexander the Great, and it wouldn’t surprise me to learn that it was used to embalm his body, such is the sweet spicy ripeness of it all.
With Eau Lente I was looking for an autumn perfume, but instead of a harvest festival I found something more like a funeral.
But there's another side to autumn, the decline of summer into barren winter, a shift from growth to decay, from life springing forth to its return back to the earth.
And it’s this poignant, melancholy side to autumn that Eau Lente captures, its brown resiny scent is full, over ripe, almost putrid.
It's said that the formula derives from an ancient scent known to Alexander the Great, and it wouldn’t surprise me to learn that it was used to embalm his body, such is the sweet spicy ripeness of it all.
With Eau Lente I was looking for an autumn perfume, but instead of a harvest festival I found something more like a funeral.
