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Melon
Bamboo leaf
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Amber
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The Dalai Lama Sends Me Love and Peace
The blue poppy (Meconopsis Grandis) grows in Tibet. There, at high altitudes, you can find its broad, deep blue flowers that have a unique scent. I have never been there and I have never smelled blue poppy in nature. Therefore, I have no idea how much the top note of Coquelicot corresponds to this blue poppy. But I can certainly say that it is sensationally beautiful.
Coquelicot is a harmonious, gentle, soft fragrance. There is no citrusy or distinctly fresh beginning; instead, it unfolds in layers to a very rich, slightly sweet, and clear main motif that then remains in stable balance for a long time, slowly fading into a slightly patchouli-energized, lightly ambratic base.
Many different floral notes are interwoven, and there is also a melon and a bit of vetiver grass. But none of them stand out distinctly. Together, they create this overall scent that clearly serves a singular note: the blue poppy, which perhaps echoes the blue poppy of Tibet.
If I try very hard, I can recognize a rose; there is also a hint of jasmine and the narcotic sweetness of hyacinth... but I don’t want that at all. Coquelicot does not invite you to sniff out individual notes.
The contrasts work so softly and dissolve so smoothly into the poppy note that they do not actually contrast. They emphasize, underline, and provide a framework.
Coquelicot is incredibly balanced and natural. Very floral, but without a colorful bouquet. It opens up a calm, beautiful expanse. In colors, it is blue, like this blue poppy or like horizontal blue areas in paintings that are always sky or sea.
Such a peaceful, balanced scent of a perfect world could be boring... but then the many accompanying notes come into play, giving the poppy scent complexity and substance.
I am not particularly Buddhist and generally not at all spiritually inclined - but my idea of a meditatively reachable place of unlimited love with great, deep, all-encompassing peace would, if formulated as a scent, be exactly like Coquelicot.
Coquelicot is a harmonious, gentle, soft fragrance. There is no citrusy or distinctly fresh beginning; instead, it unfolds in layers to a very rich, slightly sweet, and clear main motif that then remains in stable balance for a long time, slowly fading into a slightly patchouli-energized, lightly ambratic base.
Many different floral notes are interwoven, and there is also a melon and a bit of vetiver grass. But none of them stand out distinctly. Together, they create this overall scent that clearly serves a singular note: the blue poppy, which perhaps echoes the blue poppy of Tibet.
If I try very hard, I can recognize a rose; there is also a hint of jasmine and the narcotic sweetness of hyacinth... but I don’t want that at all. Coquelicot does not invite you to sniff out individual notes.
The contrasts work so softly and dissolve so smoothly into the poppy note that they do not actually contrast. They emphasize, underline, and provide a framework.
Coquelicot is incredibly balanced and natural. Very floral, but without a colorful bouquet. It opens up a calm, beautiful expanse. In colors, it is blue, like this blue poppy or like horizontal blue areas in paintings that are always sky or sea.
Such a peaceful, balanced scent of a perfect world could be boring... but then the many accompanying notes come into play, giving the poppy scent complexity and substance.
I am not particularly Buddhist and generally not at all spiritually inclined - but my idea of a meditatively reachable place of unlimited love with great, deep, all-encompassing peace would, if formulated as a scent, be exactly like Coquelicot.
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