I do not know you. You just walked past me. A brief eye contact. A shy smile. A delicate touch of our hands. Accidental and unintentional. But you feel so familiar and so close to me. I to you as well. I could see it in your gaze. Where do I know you from? I had never seen you before, but I feel that we once belonged together. Was it perhaps another life in a long-gone time? I recognize you again. Every movement of yours is familiar to me. Your gaze as you look at me. Your beautiful smile. I have seen it before. A very, very long time ago in a long-gone life. Could it be? I see you and me as if through a rosy veil as we swim through a pond in the damp fog of the morning. I see you diving between the water lilies. I feel you swimming around me. I hear you laugh and see you stepping out of the water, swallowed by the damp, misty fog. In a past life, you were once my companion. I can feel it! We lay on damp, warm earth. Surrounded by rustling patchouli and vetiver grasses. The air around us was earthy and gently smoky. I have these images in my head. So many foggy memories!
I see you as you look into my eyes. I feel your hands as they gently stroke my neck and my face. Tender, soft, and loving! I can still feel it as you took my hand and placed it on your belly. And I could feel it, the second little heartbeat next to yours. You were once everything to me! Woman, partner, confidante, and the mother of my children. So many images in my head like through a rosy veil. I see you and me at our wedding. Smell the delicate, soft, ethereal incense around us and the small bouquet of violets in your hands. Powdery, smoky, pale, and finely chiseled. Like a faded memory from another time. A tender kiss. You were once my..!
I do not know you. Not yet! You just walked past me. A brief eye contact, a gentle smile, an accidental touch. And your scent that felt so infinitely familiar to me. Physical, delicate, and full of old, familiar love. I do not know if all this really happened, what I saw vaguely before my mind's eye. In the fateful moment when I met you. In the seconds that felt like an eternity. As long as a felt, past life. But I know one thing for sure. I want to experience everything just like that with you again. If I should find you again among all the many people. Again and again. Only with you. Until you should appear to me again in a new life!
Conclusion Batsheva by Régime des Fleurs was created by perfumer Alia Raza and American fashion designer Batsheva Hay. Delicate notes of water lilies and rose geraniums merge with smoky nuances of woody cedar and gently smoky vetiver. Warm, earthy patchouli oil and accords of steaming, freshly brewed Lapsang Souchong tea fuse with filigree and softly powdery-leathery violets to create a delicately moist corporeality, ultimately enveloped by the finest, diffuse Somali incense. Batsheva is not really tangible in its aura. Batsheva is subtle, floating, gentle, familiar, damp-warm, quiet, skinny, and very tender. Batsheva is meant to symbolize an incarnation. The incarnation of a celestial spirit, the incarnation of beauty, or the incarnation of love. Perhaps a love long past? But no matter what incarnation Batsheva may take on and in what form it appears. It will be something beautiful… for sure!
My dear friends and readers, this will be my last review before the holidays. At least until Christmas! Despite all the adverse circumstances that are currently prevailing or perhaps because of them, I wish you peaceful, calm, and harmonious Christmas and reflective holidays. Be loving, grateful, and good to one another…! With much love in my heart. Can
This review is one of the most beautiful things I've read in a long time, and I feel connected to it. Whenever I read a review from you, I can't help but think: It's the ether that flows through you while you write, and you inspire and excite, drawing us into this stream of life.
It's wonderful that there are "spirits" like you here!
Once again, you've taken me on a beautiful poetic-romantic journey to the land of dreams and romance with your review. THANK YOU!!! And if this scent is even close to as beautiful as you describe, and the bottle promises, my nose might just give in with delight...
Thank you so much for letting me join your wonderfully emotional journey through scents.
I lovingly cheered you on along the way.
May 2022 make some of our dreams come true.
Peter
What beautiful, enchanting words-a love letter to a fragrance and its wearer! Your review is a poetic gem that truly touched me deeply. Thank you for that, and for giving this somewhat chaotic Christmas a bit of shine and depth. I wish you and your wife a lovely and magical holiday season!
So beautiful! Your words touch me deeply.. It's amazing how fragrances can open up such wonderful worlds.. I'm completely enchanted, simply beautiful...
I loved reading this and could read it over and over again :)
Wishing you wonderful holidays too, dear Can!
Delicate images in beautiful words - intense, deep, yet also fleeting and mysterious. A true pleasure to read. You convey that feeling of knowing someone, even though you've just seen them for the first time, so convincingly. And the scent sounds just as special and alluring in its composition. I wish you, dear Can, wonderful, magical holidays!
I can imagine that something like this can exist... beautifully written and pure romance. Wishing you gentle and lovely holidays and all the best for the new year! I will definitely look for and try this mystically enchanting scent :-)
Can Can Can, the way you handle words is pure art to me and many others here. Just because of the review, this fragrance will find its place on my wish list. Wishing you and your loved ones a Merry Christmas 💚
Maybe it's because you're a magician. With words, you lift the laws of birth and death, turn reality into a fairy tale, and fairy tales into reality. But your stories enchant me and make a fragrance beautiful that I don't know and probably wouldn't have cared about without you. Don't stop writing!
What beautiful, heartfelt, and profound lines! I really enjoyed reading your wonderful review… Wishing you and Ms. Can all the best! Hope you both have a relaxing and reflective Christmas season!
You will find them again, my dear, for sure. Someone like you, who shares stories as light as a butterfly with the world, has a wink of luck on their side.
What a beautiful post .. so uplifting and intense - at the same time full of longing and hope .. but above all, full of warmth that seems contagious .. thank you for the last sentences, Can .. they are comforting! Wishing you all a joyful holiday and really great days :):) !
Experiencing such touching moments and profound emotions makes us recognize the ever-repeating cycle of life, reinforced by such beautiful scents. This is how we always return to the source of life... Return to the Source!
Wishing you reflective holidays and Merry Christmas, dear Can!
If I understood correctly, your wonderful story has nothing to do with a déjà vu, but is a deep memory of very happy days, beautifully written and heart-wrenching! The fine description of the scent adds to it, and everything adds up to an exceptionally heartfelt review!
Such a beautiful, sensual text, it gave me goosebumps. Wishing you peaceful, restful Christmas days and a joyful celebration despite these tough times.
You can always feel the love in your heart through your reviews.
Your misty memory really touched my heart; I can relate to that.
I wish you and your loved ones a Merry Christmas and a Christkind with a big sack full of love, happiness, joy, and health.
Echoes was also wonderfully delicate. That's how I imagine Batsheva.
You take a piece from every life. An eternal cycle. Maybe you really do meet former companions again. In the present or the future.
... those who can no longer dream are already dead.
Reflective days, Aquarius.
You can only see well with your heart, and that comes to mind once again. There’s definitely some truth to that, and you prove it here once more. The scent almost becomes a supporting character, and the silly time fades a bit into the background. I wholeheartedly join your good wishes and gladly return them!
I recommend a time travel... the hummingbirds once sang a song... by the pond where water lilies now bloom... How could I ever question for a second that the scent will be beautiful... It MUST be.
I wish you all a lovely Christmas 🤗
Your amazing review was, as always, a pleasure for me to read. I just have to say hats off! ... The scent isn't really my thing.
I also wish you and your family happy, relaxing, and beautiful holidays... stay strong and stay healthy.
and I'm speechless at the beauty of your words. -- Just a big THANK YOU for this beautiful review!
Beautifully described!
It's wonderful that there are "spirits" like you here!
I lovingly cheered you on along the way.
May 2022 make some of our dreams come true.
Peter
beautifully written
you’ve captivated me
I’ve devoured your story
word for word, it’s very well done.
Wishing you all the best, dear Can
A peaceful transition into the new year
May all your hopes and wishes for the next year come true
Wishing you lots of health, and that we all find some peace again.
Warm regards from the far North,
Arne
Applause to you, dear Can! Your texts always touch me deeply!
Much love and a magical time.
I loved reading this and could read it over and over again :)
Wishing you wonderful holidays too, dear Can!
Wishing you and your loved ones a Merry Christmas 💚
Congratulations!!
I wish you and your loved ones happy holidays as well.
I wish you meaningful days and a Merry Christmas too!
Wishing you reflective holidays and Merry Christmas, dear Can!
Wishing you a warm and peaceful holiday as well. Hope to see you very soon.
Wishing you a reflective and beautiful Christmas season! 🌟
Wishing you peaceful, restful Christmas days and a joyful celebration despite these tough times.
Your misty memory really touched my heart; I can relate to that.
I wish you and your loved ones a Merry Christmas and a Christkind with a big sack full of love, happiness, joy, and health.
You take a piece from every life. An eternal cycle. Maybe you really do meet former companions again. In the present or the future.
... those who can no longer dream are already dead.
Reflective days, Aquarius.
I wish you all a lovely Christmas 🤗
I also wish you and your family happy, relaxing, and beautiful holidays... stay strong and stay healthy.
I wish you and your loved ones a lovely, relaxing, and carefree Christmas!
Wishing you peaceful holidays and all the best!