Benzoin
Cocoa
Coffee
Cognac
Mimosa
Pink pepper
Sea buckthorn
Cistus
Peru balsam
Styrax05/27/2025
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Library of a fantasy
Bastian was getting on in years. The old roof truss was a library of thoughts that flickered indistinctly as if from diffuse memories in a lantern made of tarnished amber and a cognac glass. They were the only sources of light in the room. They emitted Sichuan-bright traces of light that burned into dark shelves, into images of bittersweet fruit that drifted away in ashes of pepper flakes and in the silver dust of past blossoms. His eyes disappeared into antique book spines and cocoa-black leather bindings that shone like robusta beans and were already crumbling into mocha powder. A few reddish cinnamon sparks sparkled the first stars of fantasies in them and somewhere vanilla clouds drifted sleepily in the night sky.
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Kevin Peterson from Sfumato in Detroit, Michigan, uses only plant-based raw materials for his fragrance creations. He is convinced that humans have created a kind of collective olfactory memory over the course of evolution, whereby natural fragrances are able to develop and transport subtle stimulus reactions over thousands of years. Natural fragrances are therefore time capsules.
"Bourbon & Old Books" subtly captures the subject matter without being one-to-one. First of all, there is an abundance of aromas in amber-colored resins, still shimmering from cognac, which, underlined by sea buckthorn, unfolds both sweet-sour-fruity and spicy (pepper) notes. In combination with the cinnamon and vanilla aromas of the resins from the base (benzoin, Peru balsam, styrax), this has a somewhat medicinal effect, but soon disintegrates into tart, silvery, dusty notes. The mimosa is embedded in the pepper, while dry, spicy, dark coffee notes and bitter cocoa are almost leathery. In the base, it is the spicy cinnamon aromas that develop spicy liqueur-like aromas in wondrously contrasting harmony with the vanilla notes (benzoin, Peru balsam, styrax) and cognac. The library of fantasy is rather quiet, but you can spend many hours there.
(With thanks to Snoopyelfi)
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Kevin Peterson from Sfumato in Detroit, Michigan, uses only plant-based raw materials for his fragrance creations. He is convinced that humans have created a kind of collective olfactory memory over the course of evolution, whereby natural fragrances are able to develop and transport subtle stimulus reactions over thousands of years. Natural fragrances are therefore time capsules.
"Bourbon & Old Books" subtly captures the subject matter without being one-to-one. First of all, there is an abundance of aromas in amber-colored resins, still shimmering from cognac, which, underlined by sea buckthorn, unfolds both sweet-sour-fruity and spicy (pepper) notes. In combination with the cinnamon and vanilla aromas of the resins from the base (benzoin, Peru balsam, styrax), this has a somewhat medicinal effect, but soon disintegrates into tart, silvery, dusty notes. The mimosa is embedded in the pepper, while dry, spicy, dark coffee notes and bitter cocoa are almost leathery. In the base, it is the spicy cinnamon aromas that develop spicy liqueur-like aromas in wondrously contrasting harmony with the vanilla notes (benzoin, Peru balsam, styrax) and cognac. The library of fantasy is rather quiet, but you can spend many hours there.
(With thanks to Snoopyelfi)
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