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Botany Bay, October 12, low tide
The sea has forgotten the bay for a while, it lies behind bitter shivering meadows, with stalks like lemon grass, dark stubborn herb bushes, shivering in cool autumn gusts. There lies a world beneath the rocks, hissing breath of sharp ozone, staring sea leaves between craggy rocks on shimmering cinnamon leaf phytoplankton, ethereal traces in fossilized shells at the feet of the steep cliffs. There, at nightfall, you can hear a murmur of green earth and pine amber. Soon the sea will come again.
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Haeckels is a small manufacturer of natural body care products and fragrances from Margate in England. "[We arose] to raise awareness about natural products that are every bit as effective as chemical-derived alternatives." writes Dom Bridges about his brand, in which each of his employees takes on several roles and all fragrances are directly related to a place in and around Margate, with exact GPS coordinates, harvest date and weather conditions.
Under the coordinates 51° 23' 19 "N 1° 26' 3 "E you will find Botany Bay, a bay in the far north-east of Kent, lined with rugged high limestone cliffs, some of which stand free like needles and defy the sea on their flat plateaus overgrown with grasses and herbs. Upon closer research, however, it remains somewhat unclear which ingredients Dom Bridges used to create the olfactory image of the place: while cinnamon leaf, bergamot and lavender are listed here, other sources mention pine resins, dark musk or even amber, jasmine and ozone. And somehow each of the notes mentioned also seems plausible.
There are citrusy green, herbaceous notes at the beginning, which could come from bergamot, lavender or pine needles, before sharp, spicy, cool aromas in the heart, mineral-ozoneous, cinnamon-leafy-clove-like, ethereal-spicy, suggesting a walk from the herbaceous meadows to the edge of the windy cliffs. In the base, beneath the cool mineral notes, there are also hints of a dark musky accord with pine-resinous, earthy and deep nuances.
The visit to the bay is of rather moderate projection and lasts a good seven hours.
(With thanks to Spatzl)
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Haeckels is a small manufacturer of natural body care products and fragrances from Margate in England. "[We arose] to raise awareness about natural products that are every bit as effective as chemical-derived alternatives." writes Dom Bridges about his brand, in which each of his employees takes on several roles and all fragrances are directly related to a place in and around Margate, with exact GPS coordinates, harvest date and weather conditions.
Under the coordinates 51° 23' 19 "N 1° 26' 3 "E you will find Botany Bay, a bay in the far north-east of Kent, lined with rugged high limestone cliffs, some of which stand free like needles and defy the sea on their flat plateaus overgrown with grasses and herbs. Upon closer research, however, it remains somewhat unclear which ingredients Dom Bridges used to create the olfactory image of the place: while cinnamon leaf, bergamot and lavender are listed here, other sources mention pine resins, dark musk or even amber, jasmine and ozone. And somehow each of the notes mentioned also seems plausible.
There are citrusy green, herbaceous notes at the beginning, which could come from bergamot, lavender or pine needles, before sharp, spicy, cool aromas in the heart, mineral-ozoneous, cinnamon-leafy-clove-like, ethereal-spicy, suggesting a walk from the herbaceous meadows to the edge of the windy cliffs. In the base, beneath the cool mineral notes, there are also hints of a dark musky accord with pine-resinous, earthy and deep nuances.
The visit to the bay is of rather moderate projection and lasts a good seven hours.
(With thanks to Spatzl)
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