L'Air du Temps Nina Ricci 1948 Eau de Parfum
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O Fortuna velut luna statu variabilis............ Luck, like the moon so changeable.............
................Carmina Burana and L'Air du Temps are very special to me, connected with a time when I was a young woman. A time when this perfume was my daily companion in my professional life, and during which I often listened to this musical work.
I have no idea how old I was back then, maybe 26? In any case, I had a late shift in the intensive care unit in Großhadern. My colleague handed over my patients. In one bed lay an ancient man. Not intubated, why is he here? My colleague said he has breathing problems, his family wished for him to be cared for here.
I looked at the medical record to see who he was……….. ah, a VIP. My colleague truly had no idea who this was.
At some point, I had to sit him up on the edge of the bed…… difficult ….. At least I wanted to smooth his sheets for him, apply cream to his back, provide relief… all gestures of comfort that we always find so important in caring for those entrusted to us....
The old man groped for support with trembling fingers, found my shoulder, grasped my braided hair, let his hand wander over my face, eyes drifting…. he sensed....
I put a stop to it... spoke kindly to him, explained softly where he was and that we were there for him. I asked him what he needed. ……….with a fading voice, I heard him say: I need nothing more………… the old man seemed to me at that moment as if he were touching a female body one last time, before I gently laid him back on his pillow. A few days later, he had passed away.
Well, maybe you can imagine who I am talking about.
Carmina Burana is the title of a scenic cantata by Carl Orff from the years 1935/1936. The texts in Middle Latin and Middle High German are taken from the Carmina Burana, a collection of song and drama texts created in the 11th and 12th centuries. Once discovered in the Benedictine monastery of Benediktbeuern in Bavaria, it was there that Carl Orff found it.
His choral cantata "Carmina burana" is undoubtedly one of the greatest works of 20th-century music.
The perfume L'Air du Temps is forever immortalized for me with him. I hadn't worn the perfume for so many years.
Today, however, a bottle from the souk reached me, and I felt the need to share my story of this scent with you.
It is a thoroughly floral fragrance, lily-dominated and therefore not quite as clean-soapy and innocent as it seems at first... and one initially thinks, but it has a little clove, also something spicy, and deep down almost something balsamic. Nevertheless, it always remains ladylike elegant.
The bottle is a beautiful splash bottle with two Lalique doves embossed, in a light yellow box with the two flirting doves in gold embossing, as if Nina Ricci had personally created it.
My heartfelt thanks to Shalimari. I am so happy that this scent has returned to me after so many decades - forever...
Addendum
In the case of the bottle, I found that it is the perfume.
This comment was mistakenly posted here by me under the EdP.
I have no idea how old I was back then, maybe 26? In any case, I had a late shift in the intensive care unit in Großhadern. My colleague handed over my patients. In one bed lay an ancient man. Not intubated, why is he here? My colleague said he has breathing problems, his family wished for him to be cared for here.
I looked at the medical record to see who he was……….. ah, a VIP. My colleague truly had no idea who this was.
At some point, I had to sit him up on the edge of the bed…… difficult ….. At least I wanted to smooth his sheets for him, apply cream to his back, provide relief… all gestures of comfort that we always find so important in caring for those entrusted to us....
The old man groped for support with trembling fingers, found my shoulder, grasped my braided hair, let his hand wander over my face, eyes drifting…. he sensed....
I put a stop to it... spoke kindly to him, explained softly where he was and that we were there for him. I asked him what he needed. ……….with a fading voice, I heard him say: I need nothing more………… the old man seemed to me at that moment as if he were touching a female body one last time, before I gently laid him back on his pillow. A few days later, he had passed away.
Well, maybe you can imagine who I am talking about.
Carmina Burana is the title of a scenic cantata by Carl Orff from the years 1935/1936. The texts in Middle Latin and Middle High German are taken from the Carmina Burana, a collection of song and drama texts created in the 11th and 12th centuries. Once discovered in the Benedictine monastery of Benediktbeuern in Bavaria, it was there that Carl Orff found it.
His choral cantata "Carmina burana" is undoubtedly one of the greatest works of 20th-century music.
The perfume L'Air du Temps is forever immortalized for me with him. I hadn't worn the perfume for so many years.
Today, however, a bottle from the souk reached me, and I felt the need to share my story of this scent with you.
It is a thoroughly floral fragrance, lily-dominated and therefore not quite as clean-soapy and innocent as it seems at first... and one initially thinks, but it has a little clove, also something spicy, and deep down almost something balsamic. Nevertheless, it always remains ladylike elegant.
The bottle is a beautiful splash bottle with two Lalique doves embossed, in a light yellow box with the two flirting doves in gold embossing, as if Nina Ricci had personally created it.
My heartfelt thanks to Shalimari. I am so happy that this scent has returned to me after so many decades - forever...
Addendum
In the case of the bottle, I found that it is the perfume.
This comment was mistakenly posted here by me under the EdP.
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O Fortuna: I was lucky enough to see the performance of the Brno production of "Carmina Burana," with the "Fire Tower" as the centerpiece.
Unfortunately, it rained so much that by the end, the Wheel of Fortune could have been used more as a "water mill"; nothing wanted to burn at all.
I also love Carmina Burana, but unfortunately, I don't know the perfume (yet)!
Carmina Burana would suit any fragrance well, but with you, it’s connected to L'Air du Temps. Both are masterpieces, and your comment is a lovely tribute to that!