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Warmer Summer Evening
The natural perfume "Litha" is dedicated to the festival of the summer solstice, which occurs around June 21 according to our calendar.
Here, the sun begins to shine approximately two minutes less each day in the annual cycle - or the night becomes about two minutes longer each day.
At this time, the expected high summer weather pattern in our latitudes begins to take shape. Will it be cool, wet, or mixed, or will there be a warm to hot and dry summer?
The further north people live near the Arctic Circle, the longer the daylight lasts until the summer solstice. Near the North Pole, it never really gets dark for some time. The further north people live, the more they celebrate this internal farewell to the "high" light. In Ireland, however, this is not yet so extreme.
The natural scents from "Wonderchest Perfums," NY, from the "Wheel of the Year" series are meant to reflect each of the ancient Irish festivals. Ms. Brodskaya's fragrances are made from natural oils and essences. If alcohol is present in the scents, it is only distilled from grains. The perfumes have a traditional feel yet are pleasant, natural, and, in my opinion, still unique, sometimes very beautiful with interesting developments. Above all, they are very long-lasting for natural fragrances, lasting six to twelve hours on me. It is essential to have patience and to wait for the development even with less complex scents.
"Litha" also uses ingredients that could only have reached Ireland through trade routes and travelers, conquerors, and immigrants, which was certainly not uncommon in pre-Christian times.
"Litha" starts with earthy-powdery iris, nutty notes, and green-sweet accords, which I initially recognize as linden blossoms, and I am correct.
I can already smell lavender and bitter-woody notes in the top note.
In the heart, "Litha" remains dry, with minty hints, and the sweetness and floral aspects intensify. The typical dry-aromatic-powdery geranium note of Wonderchest underlies "Litha." I also perceive patchouli. For the heart note, I conclude: "Litha" is a scent like on a warm early summer evening in dry weather: warm dry-dusty and fragrant earth is enchantingly complemented by flowers and plants, sweet herbs that release their scents more intensely into the milder and cooler air as dusk approaches. This applies, for example, to jasmine flowers, which smell particularly strong and intoxicating in the twilight. Many flowers only release their scents into the air during this phase.
In the pyramid, angelica and fennel are listed for the herbal notes.
In the base, which sketches for me the dark short night phase, "Litha" is bitter with beautiful woodiness. And yet "Litha" remains green and lovely. Just as linden blossoms allow their enchantingly slightly intoxicating scent to be widely perceived on warm nights.
But woodruff, almost faded, also releases slightly intoxicating coumarin scents into the warm night air. Overall, "Litha" smells of hay and a lovely moss, there is also a mild oak moss scent, at least that is how I perceive it.
"Litha" has a pleasant sillage and good longevity. "Litha" smells, despite strong flowers like jasmine and linden blossoms, at no point overwhelming or intrusive.
A certain objective, sober grounding and rooting is always more or less perceptible.
"Litha" remains, despite the varied development, always on the line of one of those beautiful warm and mild summer evenings with all the lovely natural scents that one can perceive in the right environment, in the garden, in fields, and near mown meadows.
Towards the end, I perceive a blend of vanilla and/or tonka and patchouli with dry woody cocoa. The night with a dark blue sky, the Milky Way above me, still has a faint light glow to the east on the horizon, has spread over us:
"It was as if heaven had quietly kissed the earth,
that she must only dream of him in the bloom's shimmer.
The air moved through fields, the ears swayed gently.
The forests rustled softly, so star-clear was the night.
And my soul spread wide its wings,
flew through the quiet lands, as if it were flying home."
Text: Joseph von Eichendorff, set to music by Robert Schumann.
Here, the sun begins to shine approximately two minutes less each day in the annual cycle - or the night becomes about two minutes longer each day.
At this time, the expected high summer weather pattern in our latitudes begins to take shape. Will it be cool, wet, or mixed, or will there be a warm to hot and dry summer?
The further north people live near the Arctic Circle, the longer the daylight lasts until the summer solstice. Near the North Pole, it never really gets dark for some time. The further north people live, the more they celebrate this internal farewell to the "high" light. In Ireland, however, this is not yet so extreme.
The natural scents from "Wonderchest Perfums," NY, from the "Wheel of the Year" series are meant to reflect each of the ancient Irish festivals. Ms. Brodskaya's fragrances are made from natural oils and essences. If alcohol is present in the scents, it is only distilled from grains. The perfumes have a traditional feel yet are pleasant, natural, and, in my opinion, still unique, sometimes very beautiful with interesting developments. Above all, they are very long-lasting for natural fragrances, lasting six to twelve hours on me. It is essential to have patience and to wait for the development even with less complex scents.
"Litha" also uses ingredients that could only have reached Ireland through trade routes and travelers, conquerors, and immigrants, which was certainly not uncommon in pre-Christian times.
"Litha" starts with earthy-powdery iris, nutty notes, and green-sweet accords, which I initially recognize as linden blossoms, and I am correct.
I can already smell lavender and bitter-woody notes in the top note.
In the heart, "Litha" remains dry, with minty hints, and the sweetness and floral aspects intensify. The typical dry-aromatic-powdery geranium note of Wonderchest underlies "Litha." I also perceive patchouli. For the heart note, I conclude: "Litha" is a scent like on a warm early summer evening in dry weather: warm dry-dusty and fragrant earth is enchantingly complemented by flowers and plants, sweet herbs that release their scents more intensely into the milder and cooler air as dusk approaches. This applies, for example, to jasmine flowers, which smell particularly strong and intoxicating in the twilight. Many flowers only release their scents into the air during this phase.
In the pyramid, angelica and fennel are listed for the herbal notes.
In the base, which sketches for me the dark short night phase, "Litha" is bitter with beautiful woodiness. And yet "Litha" remains green and lovely. Just as linden blossoms allow their enchantingly slightly intoxicating scent to be widely perceived on warm nights.
But woodruff, almost faded, also releases slightly intoxicating coumarin scents into the warm night air. Overall, "Litha" smells of hay and a lovely moss, there is also a mild oak moss scent, at least that is how I perceive it.
"Litha" has a pleasant sillage and good longevity. "Litha" smells, despite strong flowers like jasmine and linden blossoms, at no point overwhelming or intrusive.
A certain objective, sober grounding and rooting is always more or less perceptible.
"Litha" remains, despite the varied development, always on the line of one of those beautiful warm and mild summer evenings with all the lovely natural scents that one can perceive in the right environment, in the garden, in fields, and near mown meadows.
Towards the end, I perceive a blend of vanilla and/or tonka and patchouli with dry woody cocoa. The night with a dark blue sky, the Milky Way above me, still has a faint light glow to the east on the horizon, has spread over us:
"It was as if heaven had quietly kissed the earth,
that she must only dream of him in the bloom's shimmer.
The air moved through fields, the ears swayed gently.
The forests rustled softly, so star-clear was the night.
And my soul spread wide its wings,
flew through the quiet lands, as if it were flying home."
Text: Joseph von Eichendorff, set to music by Robert Schumann.
Updated on 02/26/2018
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