Garden of Dendera Flore Botanical Alchemy

A few hours downstream from Luxor, a paddle steamer rests asleep in the Nile, at the western end of the valley lies the desert, vanilla-white sand colors the distant sky above the gardens of Dendera's temple. Gnarled pines and camphor trees fan green ethereal mists, cool and sharp, the air shimmers like liquid pepper flakes. Below, lotus blossoms, sweet daffodils, and jasmine wither, the heat cracks in the honey bushes, evaporating the clayey soils.
And the walls murmur balsamic spice, myrrh and bright mastic resins and ambers through the temple columns into the garden then in the dark, one can even see their sparkle in the earthy roots of the nut grasses.
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Stacey Moore from Flore Botanical Alchemy from Vancouver Island exclusively uses natural raw materials and original methods (distillation, tinctures, infusions, and enfleurage) for her handcrafted fragrances, which she produces in small batches.
"Garden of Dendera" is based on ancient Egyptian writings and poems that thematize scents in connection with love and eroticism. It is meant to represent lovers in the evening in the garden of Hathor's temple. The fragrance begins with green, ethereal sharp and cool top notes (camphor, pine, and pepper), which remain until the base. In the top note, they rest on a hint of vanilla, in the heart on a floral-sweet-resinous accord, in which especially the lotus and the sweet notes of daffodil, jasmine, and honeybush are prominent, yet they appear dry in connection with the resins (mastic, amber, and myrrh) of the base, which becomes increasingly earthy and woody-rooty towards the end (patchouli, cypriol). The evening in the temple garden by the Nile lasts moderately for a good eight hours.

(With thanks to Dorabella)