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Sea Daffodils (Pancratium maritimum) grace the Mediterranean beaches every autumn, as a fragrant farewell to summer. welcoming the fall with a bright white flowers that attracts night creatures. The flowers are the first to emerge after the bulb's dormant stage in the summer months. The leaves come out in winter, and by then, the charcoal-black seeds would have had the chance to sprout and anchor themselves in the sad with tiny rootlets. The flower symbolizes resilience and unconditional love.
Beach Lily perfume is inspired by this wondrous flower, and brings together two things that are dear to my heart: Beach and wild flowers. Rather than being a replica of the flower, Beach Lily perfume captures its essence: both sweet and spicy, cool and warm. Laden with the sandy softness of sandalwood and a bit of that moist and cool sand, licked by the salty Mediterranean waves.
Top notes: Bayberry, Galangal, Ruby Red Grapefruit
Heart notes: Ylang Ylang, Jasmine, Ginger Lily
Base notes: Sandalwood, Foikienia,
Fragrance Families: Floral-Ambery
Also available as a shampoo & Soap Bar (With Shea and Cacao Butters and Coconut Milk)
Photo credit: Chavatzelet Shkia (Beach Lily in the Sunset) by Yotam Dehan Copyright 2006
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This perfume is both nostalgic and ceremonial, like a warm hug, glowing smile and a reassuring hand of a benevolent ancestor. A safe place in one's heart and dreams. It is simultaneously the first and the last friendly place you'd ever encounter on a long journey.
Cocaigne perfume is a tribute to my Grandma, Ruth Moriel. A woman of this world and at the same time a mythical creature whose powers transcend that of a mere mortal. Her memory is forever blessed with strings of orange corals and sea foam, araucaria resin smoke, clouds of cinnamon and baked apple vapour, and wrapped in veils of Hawaiian sandalwood and frangipani leis.
On one of my last visits to my grandmother's home, she gifted me with "The Joy of Cooking". In it I found a recurring word I could not understand, and when looking it up I learned it is the Land of Plenty, a place for gluttons par excellence. I immediately thought it was the perfect name for a perfume tribute to my grandma. I hope that it will bring comfort, solace and a sense of place to anyone in need of either.
Notes: Ginger, Cinnamon, Cape Chamomile, Petitgrain Absolute, Jasmine, Hawaiian Sandalwood, Atlas Cedar, Sweetgrass, Bushman's Candle, Palo Santo, Vanilla, Araucaria
Fragrance family: Floral-Aldehydic, Ambery-Incense
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My first initiation to the world of perfume was through the path incense - a road covered with dust of the ages and redolent of spice caravans and ancient ceremonies and secrets.
Incense is the most ancient form of perfume, a well-travelled creature that has been covered by the dust of time like a well-worn traveller on the desert routes of spice and medicine.
Yet, distilling the scent of incense is even harder than capturing the flutter of a butterfly's wings and the scent of a delicate flower. Dance of Fire perfume showcases the beauty and depth of ancient resins and allows the scent of wafting, swirling smokes to caress one's skin. At its heart are frankincense, nagramotha, lovage and a prehistoric fossilized amber resin from Tibet, lending it an almost realistic smoky veil.
The new perfume was released into the ether 22.02.2022
Top notes: Virginia Cedarwood, Sweet Orange
Heart notes: Frankincense, Cistus, Guaicwood, Liquidambar
Base notes: Tibetan Amber, Labdanum, Benzoin, Don Quai, Lovage
Fragrance family: Ambery-Incense, Smoky
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This equinox night is as warm as daylight itself. A breeze from distant countries brings in the scent of citrus orchards. We are walking in a dream, in our respective home countries: A courtyard in West Amman. An Orchard in Old Jaffa. A garden in Aleppo. Common scents that overcome all worldly conflicts.
Savoured the salty sea air. Faces buried in the white blooming foliage of Clematis armandii and soft hair. We're overcome by a shower of meteorites; Nostrils drowned by the dreamy orange blossom scent. Sitting under wild cherry trees, whose white petals fall one by one into the black pond. Even this beautiful moment will soon disappear into the bleak past.
'Smile to me when you cry', you say. 'so I can see the real you'. The windows to my soul bleeding and shining at the same time.
We will never forget that night. It was equal to the day. It was warm. And after this night the days will be longer and lonelier. Painfully sober save for a sip of tears and a puff of clematis breath of this black heart perfume.
This new perfume is a blank slate in the shape of a black heart upon which you can write and re-write your lover's past, present and future.
Top notes: Cardamom, Mint
Heart notes: Clematis Accord, Salty Tears
Base notes: Incense, Musk
Fragrance Families: Salty Floral, Floral-Ambery