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Serenissima
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Serenissima
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The Golden Death
She dances: completely devoted to the light and what she does.
Her long, slender, almost thin body seems to follow the flowing movements completely; she stretches both arms adoringly towards the sun; she breathes its light and power!
The rhythm of her dance becomes more lascivious, more sensual - nothing but herself she seems to perceive.
And yet she knows: they are there!
She senses their presence! Their curiosity! Their desire! Their lust!
The signals of her tense vibrating body become clearer: they promise devotion, even submission!
The air crackles with heat, with tension, and quite unexpectedly, almost too suddenly, she turns to her victim and seals his fate!
"Manteuse": a play on words from "Mante Religieuse" - praying mantis - and "Menteuse" - the mendacious one.
No, I don't know that on my own; my knowledge of French doesn't go that far.
But this can be found in the statements of Stéphane Humbert Lucas: about his fragrances, on his homepage and in his facebook profile.
This charismatic fragrance artist manages to nestle on (and under) my skin like his fragrances, to pique my interest and take me along on his journey into a strange and yet so remarkably familiar world.
And as I read Christian Dior's autobiography on one hand, what this multi-faceted man reveals fascinates me on the other.
So I too am ready for surrender; surrender to the sensual pleasure that his fragrance magic promises in those special flacons.
Studying the "tempera" technique explains why his fragrance creations, despite the light inherent in them, are full of rich earthy and dark tones.
Not only the mystery of the Orient lives in them.
But "Manteuse" is not dark; this fragrance is light:
Bright and golden and creamy like the honey that opens the door to this idiosyncratic work of art, along with bergamot and white flowers. I mean to recognize jasmine and tuberose.
Before I can really pursue this sensation, leather - masculine, but not too dominant - enters the fragrance stage.
It is accompanied by the resinous spice of cistus and the erotic iridescent power of sandalwood.
Iris root provides a powdery, slightly earthy-muffy fragrance component, on which the warm creamy vanilla can expand sensually. Which it does; after all, it is one of the companions of Aphrodite, who is not without reason considered a goddess of love.
Styrax, resinous and dark and even vanilla-scented, takes up this mysterious, the senses fully awakening aroma course, deepens it even more.
Patchouli was not spared either: golden-brown fragrance threads unite with musk and an animalic note that seems quite natural here.
So is "Manteuse": voluminous, sensual, floral and animalic!
For here she truly is: the reckless and murderous mistress - no one can resist her!
Submission is only his thing of the time!
Her long, slender, almost thin body seems to follow the flowing movements completely; she stretches both arms adoringly towards the sun; she breathes its light and power!
The rhythm of her dance becomes more lascivious, more sensual - nothing but herself she seems to perceive.
And yet she knows: they are there!
She senses their presence! Their curiosity! Their desire! Their lust!
The signals of her tense vibrating body become clearer: they promise devotion, even submission!
The air crackles with heat, with tension, and quite unexpectedly, almost too suddenly, she turns to her victim and seals his fate!
"Manteuse": a play on words from "Mante Religieuse" - praying mantis - and "Menteuse" - the mendacious one.
No, I don't know that on my own; my knowledge of French doesn't go that far.
But this can be found in the statements of Stéphane Humbert Lucas: about his fragrances, on his homepage and in his facebook profile.
This charismatic fragrance artist manages to nestle on (and under) my skin like his fragrances, to pique my interest and take me along on his journey into a strange and yet so remarkably familiar world.
And as I read Christian Dior's autobiography on one hand, what this multi-faceted man reveals fascinates me on the other.
So I too am ready for surrender; surrender to the sensual pleasure that his fragrance magic promises in those special flacons.
Studying the "tempera" technique explains why his fragrance creations, despite the light inherent in them, are full of rich earthy and dark tones.
Not only the mystery of the Orient lives in them.
But "Manteuse" is not dark; this fragrance is light:
Bright and golden and creamy like the honey that opens the door to this idiosyncratic work of art, along with bergamot and white flowers. I mean to recognize jasmine and tuberose.
Before I can really pursue this sensation, leather - masculine, but not too dominant - enters the fragrance stage.
It is accompanied by the resinous spice of cistus and the erotic iridescent power of sandalwood.
Iris root provides a powdery, slightly earthy-muffy fragrance component, on which the warm creamy vanilla can expand sensually. Which it does; after all, it is one of the companions of Aphrodite, who is not without reason considered a goddess of love.
Styrax, resinous and dark and even vanilla-scented, takes up this mysterious, the senses fully awakening aroma course, deepens it even more.
Patchouli was not spared either: golden-brown fragrance threads unite with musk and an animalic note that seems quite natural here.
So is "Manteuse": voluminous, sensual, floral and animalic!
For here she truly is: the reckless and murderous mistress - no one can resist her!
Submission is only his thing of the time!
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