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03/20/2021
Seguiriya
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Portrait of a lady in disgrace
This perfume is a picture. A fine portrait painted in gouache, seen through the eyes of a lover. It adheres in detail to the well-known novel. Jardins d'écrivains fragrances are generally created with great knowledge of the corresponding novel character or author. The Lady of the Camellias is no exception. Her composition is not complicated, just as Marguerite in the novel is a country girl. I particularly like the fact that wild plants native to France are part of the composition and give it a naturalness that is Marguerite's own. The youthful freshness is expressed in verbena and orange blossom. The juniper comes to another important role, as we will see yet.
Violets and rose are flowers in the 19th century as Söliflore of the ladies were worn and the camellia was Marguerite's distinctive mark, she always wore one on your robe. Who now wonders why a courtesan is not granted a "wicked" composition, has not read the novel. Armand, the man who loves her, describes her as having a beguiling outer and inner beauty, which would be described as virtuous if she had not fallen into the life she lived through adverse circumstances. The heart chord is thus also smooth and harmonious. None of the three flowers stands out in particular. It is also this heart that gives the fragrance its special beauty.
Instead of delivering a classic rose-patchouly composition here now, the perfumer reaches for the bitter, wild juniper note. An artifice, I think, that describes the tragedy, the bitter, in the life of this woman who, like her novelist Marie Duplessis, will eventually die of tuberculosis at a very young age. The juniper is present all the time in the scent and I would imagine that is exactly what bothers some people about the scent. It's a balancing act that is risked in the fragrance, just as in life the bitter bothers, and some people are more likely to endure it than others. After all, in the novel, the rapt Armand Duval doesn't mind so much that he doesn't fall fiercely in love with beauty.
Musk and sandalwood finally prepare a smooth base, reminiscent of the natural scent of skin, and contribute a beautiful sensual element. Cardamom and sandalwood recall the fascination with the Orient at the time. It is likely that Marguerite wore cashmere shawls, which were very fashionable at the time. Place and time are precisely described here in the fragrance.
One söllte the fragrance rather not buy blindly. He is own and very beautiful.
Violets and rose are flowers in the 19th century as Söliflore of the ladies were worn and the camellia was Marguerite's distinctive mark, she always wore one on your robe. Who now wonders why a courtesan is not granted a "wicked" composition, has not read the novel. Armand, the man who loves her, describes her as having a beguiling outer and inner beauty, which would be described as virtuous if she had not fallen into the life she lived through adverse circumstances. The heart chord is thus also smooth and harmonious. None of the three flowers stands out in particular. It is also this heart that gives the fragrance its special beauty.
Instead of delivering a classic rose-patchouly composition here now, the perfumer reaches for the bitter, wild juniper note. An artifice, I think, that describes the tragedy, the bitter, in the life of this woman who, like her novelist Marie Duplessis, will eventually die of tuberculosis at a very young age. The juniper is present all the time in the scent and I would imagine that is exactly what bothers some people about the scent. It's a balancing act that is risked in the fragrance, just as in life the bitter bothers, and some people are more likely to endure it than others. After all, in the novel, the rapt Armand Duval doesn't mind so much that he doesn't fall fiercely in love with beauty.
Musk and sandalwood finally prepare a smooth base, reminiscent of the natural scent of skin, and contribute a beautiful sensual element. Cardamom and sandalwood recall the fascination with the Orient at the time. It is likely that Marguerite wore cashmere shawls, which were very fashionable at the time. Place and time are precisely described here in the fragrance.
One söllte the fragrance rather not buy blindly. He is own and very beautiful.
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