Immortelle
Tobacco
Castoreum
Myrrh
Benzoin
Deer musk
Labdanum01/29/2025
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Into the twilight in front of Karnak
Come all of you from your catacombs, rise from the smoky cellars, the mists of resin and withered urine, before all the wooden steps rot. They want to crown Sesostris in the morning. He lies stunned, already beaten in tobacco, in spicy leaves that bitterly bruise his leathery body. They will revive his dead body, rubbing withered flowers into straw to banish the evil powers with their bitter, pungent aromas. His breath is now warm with pheromones, his tracks cigars in the dark clay, into the twilight the procession strides on the first golden weaves of Siam.
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The art of Weston Adams, who lives in Saint Louis, Missouri, covers many areas, from his dark band Sunn O to meditative music collages, from experimental short films to a nature film based on Heidegger's philosophy of existence to a 10-hour film adaptation of Finnegan's Wake, from a book about ideology and understanding to his attempt to get to the roots of olfactory imagination with fragrances. All of this is not exactly light fare, requiring the recipient to take their time, which in today's everyday life requires a meditative detachment from it. The fragrance creations of Weston Adam's label Phronema move just as slowly and deliberately, just as densely and sometimes ponderously as his other works of art.
"Coronation of Sesostris" is based on the 10-part painting of the same name by Cy Twombly, which places the sun barque of the Egyptian king Sesostris, which stands for the journey of the sun god Ra across the sky, in metaphorical incongruence with fragments of text by the ancient Greek poet Sappho about love and pain in the images. This creates a dance of opposites in the eye of the beholder.
The fragrance "Coronation of Sesostris" works in a similar way. It opens with dark, bone-dry cigar tobacco leaf, which is initially overlaid with smoke, rotten woody notes, animalic-urinous castoreum and an overdriven immortelle that is reminiscent of burnt lovage. A bitter, rubbery myrrh note thickens the castoreum in a pleasant way and at the same time underlines the harsh tobacco, immortelle and leather accord, which is complemented in extreme slow motion by earthy, loamy, balsamic labdanum and deer musk pheromones. You literally want to penetrate deeper and deeper into the tiny spaces between the coarse, spicy notes, where after a few hours you can finally see the subtly vanilla-medicinal benzoin-resin aromas shimmering in dark gold. This creates a confusing attraction in the repellent, the raw lends more beauty to the resins.
(With thanks to PerfumeAl)
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The art of Weston Adams, who lives in Saint Louis, Missouri, covers many areas, from his dark band Sunn O to meditative music collages, from experimental short films to a nature film based on Heidegger's philosophy of existence to a 10-hour film adaptation of Finnegan's Wake, from a book about ideology and understanding to his attempt to get to the roots of olfactory imagination with fragrances. All of this is not exactly light fare, requiring the recipient to take their time, which in today's everyday life requires a meditative detachment from it. The fragrance creations of Weston Adam's label Phronema move just as slowly and deliberately, just as densely and sometimes ponderously as his other works of art.
"Coronation of Sesostris" is based on the 10-part painting of the same name by Cy Twombly, which places the sun barque of the Egyptian king Sesostris, which stands for the journey of the sun god Ra across the sky, in metaphorical incongruence with fragments of text by the ancient Greek poet Sappho about love and pain in the images. This creates a dance of opposites in the eye of the beholder.
The fragrance "Coronation of Sesostris" works in a similar way. It opens with dark, bone-dry cigar tobacco leaf, which is initially overlaid with smoke, rotten woody notes, animalic-urinous castoreum and an overdriven immortelle that is reminiscent of burnt lovage. A bitter, rubbery myrrh note thickens the castoreum in a pleasant way and at the same time underlines the harsh tobacco, immortelle and leather accord, which is complemented in extreme slow motion by earthy, loamy, balsamic labdanum and deer musk pheromones. You literally want to penetrate deeper and deeper into the tiny spaces between the coarse, spicy notes, where after a few hours you can finally see the subtly vanilla-medicinal benzoin-resin aromas shimmering in dark gold. This creates a confusing attraction in the repellent, the raw lends more beauty to the resins.
(With thanks to PerfumeAl)
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