Banana
Black leather
Birch tar
Castoreum absolute
Gurjum balsam
Mysore sandalwood
White ambergris
Amyris
Black caraway
Cardamom
Cinnamon leaf
Cistus
Cypriol
Grapefruit
Labdanum absolute
Malayan oud
Omani green frankincense
Patchouli
Pear
Vanilla absolute
Ylang-ylang03/24/2025
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Of truth and words
I question the interpretation of a work of art and understand myself in the understanding of the thing. There is nothing between me and the world but language. Please contradict me. I am searching. For moments of immediate recognition. I don't want to think about bananas in my rucksack. Don't inhibit my perception with images that are based on preconceptions. Because rucksacks can be made of leather and leave behind the scent of birch tar. I want to forget the bananas that melt into sweet balsam, soft masses, vanilla-white musk in a strange creamy film on my wide pupils. They are derivatives like atropine, clouding the view of nature here. Oh Heidegger, are there hardly any trees and earths left in all this confusion of smoky green nut kernels, brown cinnamon bark, resins and brains, among strange molecules? In a powdery shower of particles, concepts begin to shift.
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The art of Weston Adams, who lives in Saint Louis, Missouri, covers many areas, including a nature film based on Heidegger's philosophy of existence and a book on ideology and understanding, as well as his attempt to get to the roots of olfactory imagination with fragrances. All of this is not exactly light fare that requires the recipient to take their time, which in today's everyday life requires a meditative detachment from it.
"Truth and Method" deals with Hans-Georg Gadamer's philosophical work "Truth and Method" from 1960 on his idea of universal hermeneutics. In very simplified terms, Gadamer believes that every understanding (e.g. of art) arises situationally in linguistic discourse and must therefore not be subject to a general truth, as it would otherwise be characterized by prejudices. Only in this way can what has been understood once be understood again and again at a higher level later on.
Olfactorily, "Truth and Method" also moves from the concrete to the abstract, opening with notes of slightly smoky leather tanned with birch tar and the smell of banana. Soon, sweet, woody gurjun balsam, creamy sandalwood and vanilla-musky ambergris blur the picture. Presumably, it is synthetic components in the white ambergris that, together with the clove-spicy cinnamon leaf, the green-smoky-nutty cardamom, the herbaceous-woody cypriol, the earthy patchouly and the woods, make the actually resinous base (labdanum, gurjun balsam, frankincense, ambergris, cistus) smell strangely powdery. This is successful in terms of the theme, but a little too confusing for me as an independent fragrance art.
(With thanks to PerfumeAl)
**
The art of Weston Adams, who lives in Saint Louis, Missouri, covers many areas, including a nature film based on Heidegger's philosophy of existence and a book on ideology and understanding, as well as his attempt to get to the roots of olfactory imagination with fragrances. All of this is not exactly light fare that requires the recipient to take their time, which in today's everyday life requires a meditative detachment from it.
"Truth and Method" deals with Hans-Georg Gadamer's philosophical work "Truth and Method" from 1960 on his idea of universal hermeneutics. In very simplified terms, Gadamer believes that every understanding (e.g. of art) arises situationally in linguistic discourse and must therefore not be subject to a general truth, as it would otherwise be characterized by prejudices. Only in this way can what has been understood once be understood again and again at a higher level later on.
Olfactorily, "Truth and Method" also moves from the concrete to the abstract, opening with notes of slightly smoky leather tanned with birch tar and the smell of banana. Soon, sweet, woody gurjun balsam, creamy sandalwood and vanilla-musky ambergris blur the picture. Presumably, it is synthetic components in the white ambergris that, together with the clove-spicy cinnamon leaf, the green-smoky-nutty cardamom, the herbaceous-woody cypriol, the earthy patchouly and the woods, make the actually resinous base (labdanum, gurjun balsam, frankincense, ambergris, cistus) smell strangely powdery. This is successful in terms of the theme, but a little too confusing for me as an independent fragrance art.
(With thanks to PerfumeAl)
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