Silver Clandestine Laboratories

You awaken from everyday life as if from a dream in a glistening dawn of ice-blue eyes. The eucalyptic breath of essential oil lamps. The cold breath of camphor and thyme. There is a shadow, a medicine man. He fans the room with tufts of straw to cleanse your spirit. He murmurs Madagascar as he does so. Gradually you close your eyelids. You look at them again from the inside, the sharp shadows of salty mists, the clay-colored smoke on indistinct grasses, the pine resins woven into images of paths of cinnamon-brown amber. You linger in hazy veils.
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The fact that Mark Sage deliberately explores previously untrodden paths with the creations of his Clandestine Laboratories is also evident in "Silver". Here, the focus is initially on Cinnamosma fragrans, a plant from Madagascar that is better known in this country as Saro and from whose leaves, twigs and bark an antibacterial, antiviral and clarifying essential oil is extracted, the scent of which is reminiscent of eucalyptus and camphor. Supported by cool mint, spicy thyme, herbaceous lavender and green pepper, it initially cleanses the airways almost medicinally for quite a while before the dry strawflower leads it over earthy-smoky nuances (vetiver, patchouli) as well as spicy pine resins and lichen into an accord of salty-smoky ambergris and subtly cinnamony-balsamic styrax. A medicine of moderate projection and evening-filling effect.

(With thanks to Bloodxclat)