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Glie superimposed the dystopia
Life in the chlorinated cities resembled lifeless faces behind plexiglasses that separated us from nature somewhere out there and even within ourselves. Glie was able to change something. The physical form of the application resembled the iconography of rabbits, their depictions in old image files. A simple cuboid, a head with long ears that assimilated into the human glial cells like a plug at the implanted access point.
The images behind salty candy wrappers with tiny traces of bitter orange showed thyme in white streaks of vapor or smoke over earthy soils. Remnants of it stuck like strips of Sellotape with remnants of leaves and flowering grasses, with stains from playing in summer gardens and pollen on children's jeans. Sometimes there were tears in the films, then you could see clumps of sage, very sharp in bright green tones, smoked in the hands of a shaman. Other times there were coniferous forest floors, withered and yet shimmering with allium hearts, veiling the eyes like incense between stony trees. You could stay there in the mists of interference.
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The Romanian niche perfume house Adi ale Van collaborates with renowned perfumers and tries to have as much as possible produced by hand by small local companies in Romania, a process that lends itself to limited editions. The bottles are handmade unique pieces by the artist Adi ale Van.
"Glie - Elixir Rural" thematizes the nature of another time, another world. Giovanni Festa, who has also created fascinating fragrances such as Mendittorosa's "Osang" and Adi ale Van's "Diamonitrion", has indeed succeeded in creating a fragrance somewhere between dystopian alienation and green nature.
What he himself describes as scorched earth hides the top notes behind a strangely chlorine-salty plastic veil, in which traces of bitter orange, some earth and, above all, herbaceous, earthy angelica root are perceptible. The resins from the heart and base provide a subtle orange candy vibe. The olfactorily related notes (herbaceous-bright, fresh green) of white thyme and lavender then form a bridge to the heart of the fragrance, in which an ethereally bright sage rises above the thyme, initially slightly smoky but soon captured by the coniferous, leafy galbanum resin. This creates the impression of dried needles on a summer forest floor, over which light powdery-earthy iris notes swirl, which finally transform with the amber of the base into a green-incense impression, sometimes cool and mutedly mineral, which remains on the skin for a long time, softened and slightly sweetened by the musk. A thoroughly fascinating fragrance that really doesn't reveal itself the first or second time you wear it, as it reveals different facets from time to time.
Top Notes 
Sage
Soil
Bitter orange
Lavender
Heart Notes 
Angelica
Galbanum
White thyme
Grass
Iris
Leaves
Base Notes 
Amber
Musk
Hex
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