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A Dark Secret of Alchemy
Deep black coffee in a wooden cup, at the bottom a candle still glimmers faintly, casting remnants of warm light, as the night flows under a hood through the library windows. An old face. It studies the secret writings. Blurred are the herbs of the alchemists in the dark eyes of glowing resins, shaping arcane pages made from hay and woods in smoking letters of warm myrrh, black ash, and cinnamon-brown glowing balm. The tobacco wallpaper has become damp. It drips its spicy roots into the mulchy floorboards below.
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Kevin Peterson of Sfumato from Detroit, Michigan, uses exclusively plant-based raw materials for his fragrance creations. He believes that humans have developed a kind of collective olfactory memory over the course of evolution, allowing natural scent substances to develop and transport subtle stimulus responses over millennia. Natural fragrances are thus time capsules.
"Arcanum" directly refers to Paracelsus' term for the healing powers of the material world, which include plants and minerals to heal people physically and spiritually. In alchemy, Arcanum also denotes the correct dosage in distinguishing between remedy and poison.
The fragrance begins with the scent of such a remedy, where the dose makes the poison, namely black, strong, slightly sweetened coffee, which soon gains a warm depth through the various resins. The smoky balsamic notes of myrrh and tolu balsam, the cinnamon-resin aromas of Peru balsam, as well as slight black ash notes of birch tar form the resinous foundation, upon which initially spicy hay notes (strawflower), medicinal roots and herbs (spikenard), as well as minimally warm-animalic dark musk notes (ambrette seeds, spikenard) are predominant. Over time, bitter-moist tobacco notes, the earthy-woody rockrose, and the finely bitter Virginia cedar become more prominent, evoking the association of oud mulch beneath the coffee grounds.
"Arcanum" appears to harbor a dark secret of alchemy; it is a bitter remedy that gently smolders on herbal balm, both stimulating and soothing at the same time, moderately to skin-close acting over several hours.
About Sfumato:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI1GK0VoDQE&t=72s
(With thanks to PallasCC, Caligari, and Vinyldates)
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Kevin Peterson of Sfumato from Detroit, Michigan, uses exclusively plant-based raw materials for his fragrance creations. He believes that humans have developed a kind of collective olfactory memory over the course of evolution, allowing natural scent substances to develop and transport subtle stimulus responses over millennia. Natural fragrances are thus time capsules.
"Arcanum" directly refers to Paracelsus' term for the healing powers of the material world, which include plants and minerals to heal people physically and spiritually. In alchemy, Arcanum also denotes the correct dosage in distinguishing between remedy and poison.
The fragrance begins with the scent of such a remedy, where the dose makes the poison, namely black, strong, slightly sweetened coffee, which soon gains a warm depth through the various resins. The smoky balsamic notes of myrrh and tolu balsam, the cinnamon-resin aromas of Peru balsam, as well as slight black ash notes of birch tar form the resinous foundation, upon which initially spicy hay notes (strawflower), medicinal roots and herbs (spikenard), as well as minimally warm-animalic dark musk notes (ambrette seeds, spikenard) are predominant. Over time, bitter-moist tobacco notes, the earthy-woody rockrose, and the finely bitter Virginia cedar become more prominent, evoking the association of oud mulch beneath the coffee grounds.
"Arcanum" appears to harbor a dark secret of alchemy; it is a bitter remedy that gently smolders on herbal balm, both stimulating and soothing at the same time, moderately to skin-close acting over several hours.
About Sfumato:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI1GK0VoDQE&t=72s
(With thanks to PallasCC, Caligari, and Vinyldates)
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