Top Notes 
Tasmanian red berries
Sicilian mandarin orange
Argentinian bitter orange
Italian iris
Heart Notes 
French mimosa
French violet
Haitian vetiver
Precious woods
Base Notes 
Siam benzoin
White musk
Somalian frankincense
Amber
Spanish labdanum
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Go with Me to the End of Hell
I am so disappointed! Disappointment actually has a lot of positives; a former misconception is revealed as such, allowing for reflection and correction. From a human perspective, disappointments are still quite bitter. It is so frustrating, makes one sad more than angry. One wishes that perhaps they were wrong after all, that in the end everything is explainable, forgivable, even wonderful. But most of the time, it is not. And deep down, one knows all the time that they knew nothing (or everything?) all along. Then you wonder why this keeps happening and what lesson you apparently have not yet learned but desperately want to learn to finally put an end to the monotony of disappointment. At the same time, one is not so pessimistic; one knows that all of this is quite normal - sad Mondays, frustrating Tuesdays, melancholic Sundays, weeks, months. Not everything that hurts is bad. And not everything that feels endlessly final is eternal.
I wish for myself and for all of us that we do not forget this. That we keep dancing, a first time and always a first time again. "Trust love one more time and always one more time." La première danse has been accompanying me to my daily dance lessons for some time now. And it is fate, you know. Everything that makes me happy, I have while dancing. Everything that makes me sad at the moment, too. It is sometimes so hard to motivate oneself and to convince oneself of the good when some people do their utmost to drive out optimism. Hostility has always been incomprehensible to me, unfortunately, it is no longer unfamiliar to me - and that makes it even more incomprehensible. What helps to stay grounded, to remain positive? Well, for me, it surely helps to nourish the senses with beautiful, loving things. It’s funny what power scents have. This one, for example, perfectly captures the bitter disappointed love, the sweet, beautiful love, the ambiguity of one’s own feelings. In my statement, I write about the "wild, young Effi." Effi Briest was a disappointed, cheerful, joyful, disillusioned girl. According to the book, they managed to break her optimism. According to the film, they did not. I want to focus on the film's ending and on the idea that life needs both the good and the bad to live in wholeness. Perhaps the bad is not so bad if we see it as part of all being.
Bitter, sweet, tender and wild, suffering, tolerable, lovely. I dedicate my first dance to myself and again and again to myself. And then someday also to you. Later then to us.
I wish for myself and for all of us that we do not forget this. That we keep dancing, a first time and always a first time again. "Trust love one more time and always one more time." La première danse has been accompanying me to my daily dance lessons for some time now. And it is fate, you know. Everything that makes me happy, I have while dancing. Everything that makes me sad at the moment, too. It is sometimes so hard to motivate oneself and to convince oneself of the good when some people do their utmost to drive out optimism. Hostility has always been incomprehensible to me, unfortunately, it is no longer unfamiliar to me - and that makes it even more incomprehensible. What helps to stay grounded, to remain positive? Well, for me, it surely helps to nourish the senses with beautiful, loving things. It’s funny what power scents have. This one, for example, perfectly captures the bitter disappointed love, the sweet, beautiful love, the ambiguity of one’s own feelings. In my statement, I write about the "wild, young Effi." Effi Briest was a disappointed, cheerful, joyful, disillusioned girl. According to the book, they managed to break her optimism. According to the film, they did not. I want to focus on the film's ending and on the idea that life needs both the good and the bad to live in wholeness. Perhaps the bad is not so bad if we see it as part of all being.
Bitter, sweet, tender and wild, suffering, tolerable, lovely. I dedicate my first dance to myself and again and again to myself. And then someday also to you. Later then to us.
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