Top Notes 
Petitgrain
Bergamot
Green mandarin orange
Meyer lemon
Coriander
Mandarin orange
Heart Notes 
Elderflower absolute
Honeysuckle
Geranium
Base Notes 
Cedar
Clove absolute
Labdanum absolute
Smoke
Vetiver
Cistus
Vanilla absolute
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a sadde andde biutiful worlde
Time and again you think of it, in the face of the first early summer flowers, then your breath trembles, and your heart beats with wings. Everything feels new, completely radiant and indestructible, this early summer promise is like a new love. This high feeling that nothing can happen to you. It’s been a long cold lonely winter… here comes the sun… Everything was new, finally, the soft lemon sun kissed your tears away. Every slightest touch made you tremble, you felt as if you could live on air and sunshine, and solely on that sweetness that the air brings you. Like the honeysuckle blossoms that tenderly and almost painfully spray their nectar dew onto your fingers. Everything, but truly everything responded to your love.
But alas, the flowers turned into love wound flowers, only smoky traces of too much love, the sweetness now only from bitter barks and burning clove. You long to feel something at all, your hands and heart are so sore and scarred. Not even the pain allows you to feel intensities like the highs of the past, sometimes you yearn to lie beneath the earth and the grass roots and feel their weight and earthy roughness and strength upon you.
Beyond that, however, or beneath it, and that is the real miracle, a new sweetness awaits, a new fine lightness, a happiness like powdery vanilla and gently trembling breathing labdanum resins. Not harmless, but in the deepest knowledge of the experienced heaviness, and in the trust that something is still waiting for you.
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"Ids a sadde andde biutiful worlde" is phonetically quoted by Roberto Benigni in Rolf Aurich's and Stephan Reinecke's book about Jim Jarmusch. This comes from the film "Down by Law" (1986). Benigni plays the Italian Roberto, who meets the two taciturn Zack (Tom Waits) and Jack (John Lurie) in a three-person cell of an American prison in the South. He can hardly speak English, but has a notebook in which he has written down verses by Robert Frost, which he repeatedly reads to the two, hilariously and very touchingly.
Marieposa and Gandix have already pointed out in their explanations of their statements that the name of the fragrance refers to Robert Frost. On the homepage of St. Clair Scents, it is stated that the fragrance follows the story of Frost's poem "To Earthward," which describes the transformation of new love from "sweet as the petals" and "honeysuckle" to painful love that stings like "bitter bark," "burning clove," and "rough earth." However, some statements also mention frosty nights, blue light, incoming or fading frosty cold, morning coolness. The good thing is: these do not have to exclude each other. It’s brilliant that the fragrance can convey these impressions as well!
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For me, the fragrance starts with a diverse herb-sweet citrus, primarily green mandarin and fresh leaf coriander. I had to look up "Meyer lemon": it is a natural cross between lemon and orange or mandarin, valued for its special and less sour aroma, which fits well here. Quite quickly, a floral nectar sweetness from elderflower and authentic honeysuckle joins in. Not honey sweetness, but truly fresh nectar sweetness, as it drips from honeysuckle blossoms, or freshly gathered by bees. Here, it really feels as if the sun is shining on these sparkling nectar droplets. Then delicate rose geranium comes in, and the whole thing becomes increasingly spicier with quite moderate clove, and now comes a sensation for me, as gentle smoke joins in. This is truly unique, this floral-citrus scent combined with the lurking smoky note, or like smoked flower petals (completely without the greenery). Finally, the fragrance becomes increasingly bitter, earthier, heavier, although the floral aspect remains. The poem would end here with the heaviness of the earth and wishes for death, but fortunately, the fragrance continues: after 7-8 hours, there is a beautifully fine vanilla-ambered drydown that turns everything back to the promisingly melancholic.
With heartfelt thanks to Can777 for the original sample and to BeJot for allowing me to receive a bottle!
Robert Frost: To Earthward, in: New Hampshire, 1923
Jim Jarmusch: Down by Law (USA 1986)
Aurich/Reinecke (eds.): Jim Jarmusch. Dieter Bertz Verlag, Berlin 2001.
But alas, the flowers turned into love wound flowers, only smoky traces of too much love, the sweetness now only from bitter barks and burning clove. You long to feel something at all, your hands and heart are so sore and scarred. Not even the pain allows you to feel intensities like the highs of the past, sometimes you yearn to lie beneath the earth and the grass roots and feel their weight and earthy roughness and strength upon you.
Beyond that, however, or beneath it, and that is the real miracle, a new sweetness awaits, a new fine lightness, a happiness like powdery vanilla and gently trembling breathing labdanum resins. Not harmless, but in the deepest knowledge of the experienced heaviness, and in the trust that something is still waiting for you.
-----
"Ids a sadde andde biutiful worlde" is phonetically quoted by Roberto Benigni in Rolf Aurich's and Stephan Reinecke's book about Jim Jarmusch. This comes from the film "Down by Law" (1986). Benigni plays the Italian Roberto, who meets the two taciturn Zack (Tom Waits) and Jack (John Lurie) in a three-person cell of an American prison in the South. He can hardly speak English, but has a notebook in which he has written down verses by Robert Frost, which he repeatedly reads to the two, hilariously and very touchingly.
Marieposa and Gandix have already pointed out in their explanations of their statements that the name of the fragrance refers to Robert Frost. On the homepage of St. Clair Scents, it is stated that the fragrance follows the story of Frost's poem "To Earthward," which describes the transformation of new love from "sweet as the petals" and "honeysuckle" to painful love that stings like "bitter bark," "burning clove," and "rough earth." However, some statements also mention frosty nights, blue light, incoming or fading frosty cold, morning coolness. The good thing is: these do not have to exclude each other. It’s brilliant that the fragrance can convey these impressions as well!
-----
For me, the fragrance starts with a diverse herb-sweet citrus, primarily green mandarin and fresh leaf coriander. I had to look up "Meyer lemon": it is a natural cross between lemon and orange or mandarin, valued for its special and less sour aroma, which fits well here. Quite quickly, a floral nectar sweetness from elderflower and authentic honeysuckle joins in. Not honey sweetness, but truly fresh nectar sweetness, as it drips from honeysuckle blossoms, or freshly gathered by bees. Here, it really feels as if the sun is shining on these sparkling nectar droplets. Then delicate rose geranium comes in, and the whole thing becomes increasingly spicier with quite moderate clove, and now comes a sensation for me, as gentle smoke joins in. This is truly unique, this floral-citrus scent combined with the lurking smoky note, or like smoked flower petals (completely without the greenery). Finally, the fragrance becomes increasingly bitter, earthier, heavier, although the floral aspect remains. The poem would end here with the heaviness of the earth and wishes for death, but fortunately, the fragrance continues: after 7-8 hours, there is a beautifully fine vanilla-ambered drydown that turns everything back to the promisingly melancholic.
With heartfelt thanks to Can777 for the original sample and to BeJot for allowing me to receive a bottle!
Robert Frost: To Earthward, in: New Hampshire, 1923
Jim Jarmusch: Down by Law (USA 1986)
Aurich/Reinecke (eds.): Jim Jarmusch. Dieter Bertz Verlag, Berlin 2001.
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