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Hiding me in tender darkness
… don’t wake me up…! Let me dream of
wild furry creatures incense feathers
immortals calling in cinnamon powder
tender like the night… - Yes, darkness and opacity can have a very protective, sheltering, even human-friendly quality.
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Her great desire was clarity. Everything had become too opaque in her life. So she had climbed the mountain alone in the afternoon and sought a place at the bottom of the extinct volcanic crater. It had been her wish to be absorbed and then spat out again with new clarity. In the twilight, the stars and the moon appeared in the clear sky. Small animals and unknown birds made strange sounds. She observed how the first stars and the moon sank below the crater rim as she was catapulted into eternity. Suddenly she was very, very, very far away, in nothingness, in eternity, in space. Everything was absolutely bright and clear and mercilessly bare, a place where there is no movement, no life, no polarity. In this merciless clarity, there was also no you that could have asked anything. This standstill in clarity and eternity was merciless, terrifying, and very exhausting. It was relentless, but she was not afraid: She thought of life on Earth, that she did not understand it, that so much remains dark, but it was clear to her how wonderful everything is... - Only the beginning of dawn ended this struggle, and still in the dark, she descended the mountain and returned with flowing tears to the world of the living. Small yellow flowers entrusted themselves to the darkness like little stars. Since then, she guards the knowledge of how valuable even the sometimes unclear and opaque can be and that she can bring clarity to the world because she also knows how terribly brutal clarity can be.
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Let me travel into my dreams… Protect my dreams, my small and large desires, my secret wishes. They are completely innocent as wishes, almost childlike, yet still grown-up, because I have seen everything already… In the darkness, into which I can flee from myself and yet at the same time to myself… Here, the overly sharp boundaries created by bright daylight blur. And when some clarities prove to be merely illusory, the night, in which boundaries dissolve, reveals much more important things than the glaring brightness.
“O sleep, why dost thou leave me,
why thy visionary joys remove?
O sleep, again deceive me,
to my arms restore my wand’ring love!”
(from Handel's “Semele”)
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Both fragrance variants (obscur and clair) of “Tendre est la nuit” are named after F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel “Tender is the Night,” which deals, among other things, with the meaninglessness of a superficial lifestyle and with relationship crises and excesses of the “Roaring Twenties,” but also with the important significance of everything that is pushed from daylight into darkness, yet always manages to assert its validity.
Delphine Thierry has created a fragrance of great finesse and depth here as well.
For me, it starts directly with animalic notes: I perceive both civet and castoreum, along with Sichuan pepper and ambrette seeds, which I really like. Immortelles and carrot are present, but rather subdued for me. (This may be related to the fact that I tested leftover samples here - I am very curious about a test from the bottle.) Davana contributes a slightly liqueur-like floral note, like small yellow flowers that close themselves off from the overly bright daylight but dare to open up in the darkness of night. I have never consciously perceived cabreuva before; it is said to smell warm, soft, sweet, woody, and slightly floral, with references sometimes given to rosewood and sandalwood - I cannot pick them out individually, but they fit well with the overall impression. In any case, a very fine, softly sweet, powdery amber base unfolds later, which then releases incense and labdanum. I really like patchouli, but I do not find it here as a distinctly prominent note.
Overall, it is a rather linear, calm development for me, but still dynamic and not monotonous.
This fragrance celebrates life - but not loudly and glaringly and grandly, rather finely and tenderly and human-friendly.
Thanks to @Midnights. and @Floyd, who arranged and surprised me to allow for extensive testing. In the meantime, it has extended my wish list…
wild furry creatures incense feathers
immortals calling in cinnamon powder
tender like the night… - Yes, darkness and opacity can have a very protective, sheltering, even human-friendly quality.
-----
Her great desire was clarity. Everything had become too opaque in her life. So she had climbed the mountain alone in the afternoon and sought a place at the bottom of the extinct volcanic crater. It had been her wish to be absorbed and then spat out again with new clarity. In the twilight, the stars and the moon appeared in the clear sky. Small animals and unknown birds made strange sounds. She observed how the first stars and the moon sank below the crater rim as she was catapulted into eternity. Suddenly she was very, very, very far away, in nothingness, in eternity, in space. Everything was absolutely bright and clear and mercilessly bare, a place where there is no movement, no life, no polarity. In this merciless clarity, there was also no you that could have asked anything. This standstill in clarity and eternity was merciless, terrifying, and very exhausting. It was relentless, but she was not afraid: She thought of life on Earth, that she did not understand it, that so much remains dark, but it was clear to her how wonderful everything is... - Only the beginning of dawn ended this struggle, and still in the dark, she descended the mountain and returned with flowing tears to the world of the living. Small yellow flowers entrusted themselves to the darkness like little stars. Since then, she guards the knowledge of how valuable even the sometimes unclear and opaque can be and that she can bring clarity to the world because she also knows how terribly brutal clarity can be.
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Let me travel into my dreams… Protect my dreams, my small and large desires, my secret wishes. They are completely innocent as wishes, almost childlike, yet still grown-up, because I have seen everything already… In the darkness, into which I can flee from myself and yet at the same time to myself… Here, the overly sharp boundaries created by bright daylight blur. And when some clarities prove to be merely illusory, the night, in which boundaries dissolve, reveals much more important things than the glaring brightness.
“O sleep, why dost thou leave me,
why thy visionary joys remove?
O sleep, again deceive me,
to my arms restore my wand’ring love!”
(from Handel's “Semele”)
-----
Both fragrance variants (obscur and clair) of “Tendre est la nuit” are named after F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel “Tender is the Night,” which deals, among other things, with the meaninglessness of a superficial lifestyle and with relationship crises and excesses of the “Roaring Twenties,” but also with the important significance of everything that is pushed from daylight into darkness, yet always manages to assert its validity.
Delphine Thierry has created a fragrance of great finesse and depth here as well.
For me, it starts directly with animalic notes: I perceive both civet and castoreum, along with Sichuan pepper and ambrette seeds, which I really like. Immortelles and carrot are present, but rather subdued for me. (This may be related to the fact that I tested leftover samples here - I am very curious about a test from the bottle.) Davana contributes a slightly liqueur-like floral note, like small yellow flowers that close themselves off from the overly bright daylight but dare to open up in the darkness of night. I have never consciously perceived cabreuva before; it is said to smell warm, soft, sweet, woody, and slightly floral, with references sometimes given to rosewood and sandalwood - I cannot pick them out individually, but they fit well with the overall impression. In any case, a very fine, softly sweet, powdery amber base unfolds later, which then releases incense and labdanum. I really like patchouli, but I do not find it here as a distinctly prominent note.
Overall, it is a rather linear, calm development for me, but still dynamic and not monotonous.
This fragrance celebrates life - but not loudly and glaringly and grandly, rather finely and tenderly and human-friendly.
Thanks to @Midnights. and @Floyd, who arranged and surprised me to allow for extensive testing. In the meantime, it has extended my wish list…
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It's always very helpful for me as a newbie. I don't really perceive the leather note on its own here. I also really like the traditional leather note from amber and birch tar!
Wonderful lines!
A successful tribute!
Sounds great!
Emotional, sad, yet so full of light. I don't know this version, but it must be beautiful. I have the male version, "Lui," which I also love very much. They are all so mysterious..!
I definitely need to try the male Fusion Sacrée Obscur as well.
Your tender description has made the scent very appealing to me.
I just fear that you are now definitely trapped in the Parfumo matrix; the collection keeps growing and growing 😉 Thanks for the wonderful presentation of the fragrance!
"Protect my dreams..." I really like that :-)