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Allegory of a Summer
Aniscelery already sprouts in the fields. It crackles bucolically, tart and green, in my rural Augusts. We observe straws at the edges of villages. Through the bitter orange in the Chinotto glass. Carbon dioxide foams cinnamon in the colors of the evenings, shimmer red resins of the horizons. Flowers flicker from the sky, under the weight of forest honey. Tobacco drops rain onto fibers of hay. Through a hole in the time whisper remnants of block malt.
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The Berlin indie label Miskeo, founded by self-taught perfumer Marie-Pierre Blanchette, produces all its fragrances by hand in small batches. Her creations to date are delicate and idiosyncratic, minimalist micro-arrangements that open up unusual spaces for association.
This is also true of “Allégorie de l'été,” which opens with a strangely bitter-green crackle: cool and fresh, slightly earthy and aniseed-like, fennel throws itself into the bitter orange drink, which in turn, sparkling like carbon dioxide or soda, gradually reveals spicy hay notes (immortelle, hay), sharp, cool cinnamon, shimmering in aldehydes, tart myrrh resins, and finally forest honey and tobacco notes of labdanum. A mixture of block malt candies and fennel in the drydown then evokes further childhood memories.
(With thanks to Seejungfrau)
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The Berlin indie label Miskeo, founded by self-taught perfumer Marie-Pierre Blanchette, produces all its fragrances by hand in small batches. Her creations to date are delicate and idiosyncratic, minimalist micro-arrangements that open up unusual spaces for association.
This is also true of “Allégorie de l'été,” which opens with a strangely bitter-green crackle: cool and fresh, slightly earthy and aniseed-like, fennel throws itself into the bitter orange drink, which in turn, sparkling like carbon dioxide or soda, gradually reveals spicy hay notes (immortelle, hay), sharp, cool cinnamon, shimmering in aldehydes, tart myrrh resins, and finally forest honey and tobacco notes of labdanum. A mixture of block malt candies and fennel in the drydown then evokes further childhood memories.
(With thanks to Seejungfrau)
3 Comments
and I'm already looking forward to next summer.