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A Moment Has Remained
Someone has been here, just a moment ago. A moment has remained. A table in the barren kitchen in the morning. A still life in cool streaks. You must still get used to the tranquility, hovering with the dust in the light above, with the silver steam flags of chai tea aromas, nutmeg, and cardamom, echoing from the remnants in the cups, cinnamon-brown residues like resins, over the traces of past days, bitter herbs and bay leaves on the old wooden board. The pepper mill has fallen over. Not now, but at some point. There is the wilted scent of jasmine, covering your skin with wrinkles. You linger in the amber at the bottom of the cups. A moment seems to be enclosed within it. Some time has only left the space.
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Kevin Peterson from Sfumato in Detroit, Michigan, exclusively uses plant-based raw materials for his artisan fragrance creations. He believes that humans have developed a kind of collective olfactory memory over the course of evolution, allowing natural scents to develop and transport subtle stimulus reactions over millennia. Natural fragrances are thus time capsules.
"Gravitas deepens, and deepens with thought," writes Peterson on his homepage, and indeed the scent strikes many associative chords in its very subtle way. There is initially a cool sharpness (black pepper), which releases bitter green, clove-like bay notes and a bit of coriander under harsh citrus traces (mandarin), before cardamom, nutmeg, and the cinnamon-like Peru balsam in the heart remind one of chai tea. With coffee and cardamom in the pyramid, I actually expected more of a Berber coffee aroma. Benzoin then carries the scent further into the medicinal balsamic in the base. Subtly idol-like jasmine occasionally brings to mind the thought of old skin, slightly musty, strangely not unpleasant. An evening-filling, bitter-herb time capsule that closes over warm-spicy aromas in amber.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOkpzHZb-b4&t=5s
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Kevin Peterson from Sfumato in Detroit, Michigan, exclusively uses plant-based raw materials for his artisan fragrance creations. He believes that humans have developed a kind of collective olfactory memory over the course of evolution, allowing natural scents to develop and transport subtle stimulus reactions over millennia. Natural fragrances are thus time capsules.
"Gravitas deepens, and deepens with thought," writes Peterson on his homepage, and indeed the scent strikes many associative chords in its very subtle way. There is initially a cool sharpness (black pepper), which releases bitter green, clove-like bay notes and a bit of coriander under harsh citrus traces (mandarin), before cardamom, nutmeg, and the cinnamon-like Peru balsam in the heart remind one of chai tea. With coffee and cardamom in the pyramid, I actually expected more of a Berber coffee aroma. Benzoin then carries the scent further into the medicinal balsamic in the base. Subtly idol-like jasmine occasionally brings to mind the thought of old skin, slightly musty, strangely not unpleasant. An evening-filling, bitter-herb time capsule that closes over warm-spicy aromas in amber.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOkpzHZb-b4&t=5s
Updated on 03/20/2024
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