Make me a perfume about... (a game)
11 years ago
I was just perusing Cafleurebon, and in one entry they suggested their readers to come up with a new destination for L'Artisan's Les Voyages Exotiques series.
So I came up with this little exercise for our own synesthetic creativity.
What would you like to see bottled? A place, an experience, a state of mind, an historical personage... a movie? Anything that rocks your boat.
What's important is that you put it in actual scent and that it's something you'd really like to have as a perfume and wear on your person.
I'll start with mine. And yes, I'd love it to be a L'Artisan creation.
I’m thinking New Orleans at the turn of 20 century. It's a journey that begins in the morning, in the French Quarter with its air full of uplifting aromas setting the mood for what starts as a beautiful leisurely day: the lemony and green facets of blooming geranium, freshly roasted coffee and bitter orange marmalade. Then, in its afternoon phase it progresses into an exaggerated, stereotypical Southern Belle bouquet of white florals (magnolia, gardenia, dewy jasmine and orange blossom), adorned and gradually overshadowed by a succession of honeyed pipe tobacco, bourbon and tabasco peppers, which take us through different parts of the city to finally introduce the outskirts with their strange viscous waft of herbs, ashes and beeswax out of voodoo shops, and the breeze from the Bayou bringing feral scents of the great river. Definitely a stealthily executed furry animalic undercurrent at this point, to evoke a presence of something dark and mysterious, but not make it at all visible. An unsettling fragrance that encompasses both light and dark, beauty and the invisible lurking beast.
Let's hear yours!
So I came up with this little exercise for our own synesthetic creativity.
What would you like to see bottled? A place, an experience, a state of mind, an historical personage... a movie? Anything that rocks your boat.
What's important is that you put it in actual scent and that it's something you'd really like to have as a perfume and wear on your person.
I'll start with mine. And yes, I'd love it to be a L'Artisan creation.
I’m thinking New Orleans at the turn of 20 century. It's a journey that begins in the morning, in the French Quarter with its air full of uplifting aromas setting the mood for what starts as a beautiful leisurely day: the lemony and green facets of blooming geranium, freshly roasted coffee and bitter orange marmalade. Then, in its afternoon phase it progresses into an exaggerated, stereotypical Southern Belle bouquet of white florals (magnolia, gardenia, dewy jasmine and orange blossom), adorned and gradually overshadowed by a succession of honeyed pipe tobacco, bourbon and tabasco peppers, which take us through different parts of the city to finally introduce the outskirts with their strange viscous waft of herbs, ashes and beeswax out of voodoo shops, and the breeze from the Bayou bringing feral scents of the great river. Definitely a stealthily executed furry animalic undercurrent at this point, to evoke a presence of something dark and mysterious, but not make it at all visible. An unsettling fragrance that encompasses both light and dark, beauty and the invisible lurking beast.
Let's hear yours!
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