2023 is drawing inexorably to a close and, last but not least, my nose is filled with delicious leather!
Wistfulness and confidence chill the sparkling wine and giggle quietly as I try to quickly escape the torrent of emotions.
This one sentence, weighing tons and pregnant with meaning, I was to understand in the end over a rocky path of experience.
"You don't buy a leather jacket, you earn it!"
The person who said this will hopefully give me a little sign with a shooting star on New Year's Eve, wherever he is.
Because a very dark leather is waiting impatiently to be worn before midnight.
Hiss!
This dark green bergamot on galbanum, spiced with peppercorns, instantly plunges me into a time when I wore the protective aura of
Jacomo de Jacomo (2011) at night after my swimming training.
This incredible blackness blazed surrealistically warm.
Fighting fire with fire.
This year now without cumin, but with rounded pepper.
The maturing process of the soul, like good wine in fine barrels.
My faithful companions, blue-blooded lavender with rose geraniums in the family crest, look understanding and humble.
For I may once again put on this tanned leather, which has experienced many joys and sorrows.
If my companion and leather jacket were taken from me, the scent re-establishes the connection.
What a leather!
And just as you take stock at the end of the year, a narrative opens up in the leather-bound book of experiences.
Wandering in the darkest night, hope almost extinguished, is by no means a comforting endeavor.
However, when magical resins, mystical labdanum and especially bright elemi, confront the obstacles, the violet ray of light of lavender offers the clearing of the mind.
And how you are rewarded for persevering and carrying on!
Finely ambered, softly glazed with tonka, the way is paved. And this is smokily awakened with patchouli and softly springy.
This is it, the desired resolution to the chapter that was left open back then!
What was abruptly torn was allowed to heal slowly and gently.
No more sunglasses in the darkness, but looking with gentle eyes towards the dawn.
Suddenly you are completely with yourself and are reminded of the happiness of being alive, because you have to continue on your way.
Elemi resin, with the channeled goodness of sunny bergamot, like an emerald, manages to bring light into the darkness along the way
Dressed in a leather jacket, so familiar to me, I smile now and wink gratefully at that soul for having set me the enigmatic task of leather.
For I am lucky enough to enjoy the solution to this riddle in the company of the dearest living!
And so I wish you all all the best, lots of health, happiness and love for the coming year!
And as a conclusion and new beginning, a Provençal saying:
"May we be, if not more, at least not less next year!"
Leather
Elemi resin
Geranium
Lavender
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