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Whisky12/06/2024
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The enchanted room
It takes time for the noise of the world to fade into silence in this room. Hissing skin snakes through threads of birch smoke, their cobwebs hanging from the ceiling, into the inner darkness. Her crumbly leather peels onto flower flesh, still shimmering in soft taupe. With the tart dew pearl that flies like bergamot into the dark tea leaves. In walls wafting like silver membranes. In the obscure glow of a bitter myrrh. In the decay of an old cigar. To peaty spores. To dust.
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Abby Hinsman makes her 100% natural fragrances by hand. She either grows most of the materials herself or harvests them from her two and a half hectare forest in Vermont. Accordingly, both her fragrances and her delivery times vary, as she only produces very small batches.
"Magic Chamber" sketches a shadowy space in which impressions are constantly changing, images appear and disappear again, materialize before the inner eye and vanish again. At first, there are subtly sharp, leathery, smoky notes (civet, leather, birch tar) and slightly rubbery resins (myrrh), before bright, fleshy flowers appear underneath, slightly animalic in appearance, as if the civet had matured into musk in fast motion. The tart, dark tea leaf notes soon emerge and the typical silvery bergamot-earl grey aroma comes to light. In the background, a warm, resinous glow is occasionally emitted by the initially resinous amber, which increasingly takes on a cigar leaf face. An accord of obviously earthy-woody vetiver, cellar-like-chocolaty patchouly, the flowers, tar, tonka, animal leather and amber seems to lead to this impression, which Cfr also mentions in his statement. Mild peaty whiskey rounds off the picture, which finally crumbles into dry earth. The enchanted room is a quiet space, rather close to the skin. A smell of the indistinct, of inner images.
(With thanks to Cfr)
**
Abby Hinsman makes her 100% natural fragrances by hand. She either grows most of the materials herself or harvests them from her two and a half hectare forest in Vermont. Accordingly, both her fragrances and her delivery times vary, as she only produces very small batches.
"Magic Chamber" sketches a shadowy space in which impressions are constantly changing, images appear and disappear again, materialize before the inner eye and vanish again. At first, there are subtly sharp, leathery, smoky notes (civet, leather, birch tar) and slightly rubbery resins (myrrh), before bright, fleshy flowers appear underneath, slightly animalic in appearance, as if the civet had matured into musk in fast motion. The tart, dark tea leaf notes soon emerge and the typical silvery bergamot-earl grey aroma comes to light. In the background, a warm, resinous glow is occasionally emitted by the initially resinous amber, which increasingly takes on a cigar leaf face. An accord of obviously earthy-woody vetiver, cellar-like-chocolaty patchouly, the flowers, tar, tonka, animal leather and amber seems to lead to this impression, which Cfr also mentions in his statement. Mild peaty whiskey rounds off the picture, which finally crumbles into dry earth. The enchanted room is a quiet space, rather close to the skin. A smell of the indistinct, of inner images.
(With thanks to Cfr)
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