Benzoin
Cocoa
Coffee
Cognac
Mimosa
Pink pepper
Sea buckthorn
Cistus
Peru balsam
Styrax
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Library of Imagination
Bastian had grown older. The old attic was a library of thoughts, which flickered indistinctly like diffuse memories in a lantern made of fogged amber and a cognac glass. These were the only sources of light in the room. They sent out Szechuan-bright trails of light that brandied into dark shelves, into images of bittersweet fruits that blew away in ashes of pepper flakes and in the silver dust of past blooms. His gaze disappeared into antique book spines and cocoa-black leather bindings, which shone like robust beans and were already crumbling into mocha powder. A few reddish cinnamon sparks twinkled like the first stars of fantasies within, and somewhere, vanilla clouds drifted sleepily across night skies.
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Kevin Peterson from Sfumato in Detroit, Michigan, exclusively uses 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 scents to develop and transport subtle stimulus responses over millennia. Natural fragrances are thus time capsules.
"Bourbon & Old Books" subtly captures the theme without depicting it one-to-one. There is first a wealth of aromas in amber-colored resins, still shimmering from cognac, which, underscored 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), it has a somewhat medicinal quality, but soon crumbles into herb-silvery-dusty notes. The mimosa nestles into the pepper, while dry-spicy, dark coffee notes and bitter cocoa almost take on a leathery quality. In the base, it is the sharp cinnamon aromas that develop spicy liqueur-like notes in wonderfully contrasting harmony with the vanilla notes (benzoin, Peru balsam, styrax) and the cognac. In the library of imagination, things are rather calm, allowing one to linger there for many hours.
(With thanks to Snoopyelfi)
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Kevin Peterson from Sfumato in Detroit, Michigan, exclusively uses 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 scents to develop and transport subtle stimulus responses over millennia. Natural fragrances are thus time capsules.
"Bourbon & Old Books" subtly captures the theme without depicting it one-to-one. There is first a wealth of aromas in amber-colored resins, still shimmering from cognac, which, underscored 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), it has a somewhat medicinal quality, but soon crumbles into herb-silvery-dusty notes. The mimosa nestles into the pepper, while dry-spicy, dark coffee notes and bitter cocoa almost take on a leathery quality. In the base, it is the sharp cinnamon aromas that develop spicy liqueur-like notes in wonderfully contrasting harmony with the vanilla notes (benzoin, Peru balsam, styrax) and the cognac. In the library of imagination, things are rather calm, allowing one to linger there for many hours.
(With thanks to Snoopyelfi)
Updated on 05/27/2025
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