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چارس افغان - The Resin of the Hindu Kush
The valleys rise higher out here, the air becomes rough, the earth bitter, and a few mountain ranges away, Kashmir begins. Clad in tar-stained leather, you wander through wild cannabis fields somewhere above the Bashgal River. Resin beads scatter across the flowers and leaves, you gradually rub them onto your garments, rolling them into black clumps later, with specks of yellow pollen inside. Then you smell your sticky hands. You immerse yourself in the cool, damp soils, the earthy mosses on the rugged slopes that whisper the tracks of civets, the green glow on decaying walls in stone-cold prayer rooms, the ethereal light from within, from the ancient memory of the plants.
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"I decided to compose natural perfumes because someone chooses to work with rare gemstones and precious metals instead of plastic and colored glass beads," writes the perfumer Dominique Dubrana of La Via del Profumo on his homepage about his choice of exclusively natural raw materials, whose healing effects on the human body have been known since ancient times. He even goes so far as to suggest that "little is known about the effects of chemical perfumes on the central nervous system." An interesting thought.
The effects of cannabinoids on humans are far better researched. Tcharas is a form of hashish that, unlike the latter, is derived from the living cannabis plant. In the Shiva cult of Hinduism, the enjoyment of Tcharas has been a tradition for millennia. The oils are collected while wandering through the cannabis fields on leather clothing, scraped off from there, and rolled into balls between the palms.
The scent of these resins, which are at the center of "Tcharas," can best be described as herb-green, ethereal-earthy. The camphor note mentioned by Bloodxclat is perceptible right at the beginning. Also, damp vintage moss and cellar patchouli aromas can be found in the scent profile, sharpened by dark leathery-tarry castoreum aromas. Subtly musky-leathery, the spectrum is expanded in the base by civet notes. Flowers are at best perceivable as sharp-spicy cannabis flower notes, which, however, play no significant role in the overall archaic dark earthy and simultaneously ethereal green glowing aromas.
Dubrana has indeed succeeded in reflecting the intended atmosphere of a Tcharas plantation in the Afghan Hindu Kush mountains, which subtly carries the animalistic tone of a high alpine barn. This is not a scent that reveals itself immediately, but it certainly has addictive qualities.
(With thanks to Bloodxclat)
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"I decided to compose natural perfumes because someone chooses to work with rare gemstones and precious metals instead of plastic and colored glass beads," writes the perfumer Dominique Dubrana of La Via del Profumo on his homepage about his choice of exclusively natural raw materials, whose healing effects on the human body have been known since ancient times. He even goes so far as to suggest that "little is known about the effects of chemical perfumes on the central nervous system." An interesting thought.
The effects of cannabinoids on humans are far better researched. Tcharas is a form of hashish that, unlike the latter, is derived from the living cannabis plant. In the Shiva cult of Hinduism, the enjoyment of Tcharas has been a tradition for millennia. The oils are collected while wandering through the cannabis fields on leather clothing, scraped off from there, and rolled into balls between the palms.
The scent of these resins, which are at the center of "Tcharas," can best be described as herb-green, ethereal-earthy. The camphor note mentioned by Bloodxclat is perceptible right at the beginning. Also, damp vintage moss and cellar patchouli aromas can be found in the scent profile, sharpened by dark leathery-tarry castoreum aromas. Subtly musky-leathery, the spectrum is expanded in the base by civet notes. Flowers are at best perceivable as sharp-spicy cannabis flower notes, which, however, play no significant role in the overall archaic dark earthy and simultaneously ethereal green glowing aromas.
Dubrana has indeed succeeded in reflecting the intended atmosphere of a Tcharas plantation in the Afghan Hindu Kush mountains, which subtly carries the animalistic tone of a high alpine barn. This is not a scent that reveals itself immediately, but it certainly has addictive qualities.
(With thanks to Bloodxclat)
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