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10/10/2022
ModestMourek
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A rose for Empress Theophano
A wonderful, purely natural rose perfume without oud. A dense, honey-sweet, delicately fruity rose, refreshed by bitter bergamot and juicy orange, slowly evolves through airy jasmine flowers to velvety spicy patchouli, sweetened by benzoin resin and warmed by labdanum.
Byzantium would have been fitting for Empress Theofano at a ceremony in 963, as described by Gustav Schlumberger in his L’Epopée byzantine: "Sitting (...) on her high golden throne (...), with her face painted with vivid colours, her body tightened in a long golden dress like a tight case, which had just replaced her widow's garment, her shoulders wrapped in a heavy colourful cloak, embroidered in large squares with pearls and rubies, she resembled a strange glittering ancient idol, lost in silks, gems and precious metals." (the translation is my own)
Byzantium would have been fitting for Empress Theofano at a ceremony in 963, as described by Gustav Schlumberger in his L’Epopée byzantine: "Sitting (...) on her high golden throne (...), with her face painted with vivid colours, her body tightened in a long golden dress like a tight case, which had just replaced her widow's garment, her shoulders wrapped in a heavy colourful cloak, embroidered in large squares with pearls and rubies, she resembled a strange glittering ancient idol, lost in silks, gems and precious metals." (the translation is my own)
