Le Cirque Bleu Parfum Prissana 2017

And all the unspoken love-lemon words of longing flew into this leathery-dark sky. Where they brightened the darkness a little with their bittersweet hope. They came from the cool cypress and pine needles and became greener and spicier until they turned so green from all the herbs and moss that they resembled love, like the green head of the horse. And leathery like its bridle and its coat. And bright like the moon with its violin-civet sounds. And in the illuminated, empty center of the darkness, the promise of happiness, a resinous and delicately floral hope, so fragile on the trapeze. Up there, that should be the place, the place of presence amidst all the chaos, where our hearts may once unite, sweating with joy and glowing-dark at the same time? The rest of the sky and the earth remained in mossy-earthy darkness, the tears sheltered under the blanket of night.
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Marc Chagall was deeply fascinated and influenced by the circus, even as a boy in Russia, where traveling acrobats performed at village festivals, and later in Paris, where he was repeatedly drawn to the circus. His painting "Le Cirque Bleu" was the inspiration and name for this fragrance. The scent itself is not blue at all, but it captures the painting very finely. It is almost quiet and introverted for a prince, but a lot is happening in the depth, and everything is wonderfully intertwined. It begins with very beautiful citrus notes, completely free of any cleaner-like danger, combined with the citrus aspects of the cypress. Immediately it becomes leathery, and it remains leathery throughout. Later, green herbal, bitter-leathery, resinous-animalic, and a tiny hint of sweet notes come and go.
I can identify several layers of scent that overlap each other throughout: The greenish citrus, which, conveyed through the cypress, mixes with slightly ethereal pine needles - here I also include the almost glowing civet; then the leathery-animalic-bitter leather-tobacco-castoreum theme; something very lightly sweet (probably from orange blossom and styrax, which I cannot pinpoint individually); the herbal-mossy-earthy aspect, whose color shifts between green and dark brown. Everything is very complex, very beautiful, very wearable.
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Chagall's oil painting "Le Cirque Bleu" dates from 1953. The brilliant composition creates an empty space right in the middle of the painting, illuminated by the spotlight, bordered by the graceful movement of the artist, the green horse's head, and the moon, which sends delicate rays of light into it. After Chagall's first wife Bella died in 1944, he experienced a creative crisis; in 1952, he married again, the Russian Valentina Brodsky. Persecution, exile, loss, and death are present everywhere in his work as darkness, but the longed-for love always hovers above all the dark and heavy.

I always associate the scent with the circus scene from Wim Wenders' "Wings of Desire," where the immortal angel Damiel (Bruno Ganz) follows his wish to become a mortal man after seeing the trapeze artist Marion (Solveig Dommartin) in the circus and falling in love with her.
Laurent Petitgand: Wings of Desire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkgsNpG09U4