zankoku_zen
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“I feel like all the sands are at the bottom of the hourglass.” “Turn it over, then.” The white roses and orange blossoms of hope penetrating despair’s black fog of opoponax, black myrrh, bruised violet, clove, funereal lily, and grief-struck carrot seed. Okay, to me the Hourglass is like a kissing cousin to When Stars Are Weeping. Because I adore When Stars, I like the Hourglass, but I'm not blown away by it. I get bitter carrot seed, clove, myrrh. It's a watery lily, violet and myrrh blend. It's pretty, but doesn't quite have the magic for me that When Stars does.
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Hard-packed earth lined with wild grasses, blazing beams of sunlight filtered through the green leaves of summer.
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Spiced rum, tobacco absolute and leather, caramelized tonka, chardonnay, and black musk.
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Black leather and brimstone alight with red peppercorn and blood amber.
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White tea, black carnation, Damask rose, indigo musk, and leather.
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Condensed milk wrapped in coconut shavings and tea-stained linen with a hint of bitumen, myrrh, and embalming resins.
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Cacao and coconut husk dusted on shining black fur, illuminated by electric green mandarin and raw amber.
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A surrealist swirl of ethereal yellow bergamot, white pomegranate rind, lemon peel, and white musk.
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A pale shaft of shimmering amber blackcurrant moonlight penetrating a blood red conflagration of crimson musk, woodsmoke, black pepper, daemonorops draco, and charred red oud.
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Positively incendiary: scorched pumpkin rind and petrol.
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Oozing cactus flesh, creosote, dusty boards, and gruesome globs of blood musk.
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Ambergris accord, guiac wood, white benzoin, immortelle, and Somalian myrrh. I get light, white musk and something that I swear smells like carrot seed. Unfortunately, this has almost no throw on me.
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Leathery wings flapping through billows of incense smoke.
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Red sandalwood, myrrh, cinnamon husk, and copal bound with blood, currants, and red wine. Red wine, red sandalwood, hint of cinnamon and copal. This is a very red blend. Incensey, red wine and red sandalwood. Dark and slinky. Good throw and wear length.
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Keralan teakwood, Bulgarian rose otto, Himalayan cedar, and oudh. Our Hearts is a heavily oriental rose and cedar. Very sophisticated Oriental blend.
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Sweet and smokey.
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Pour one of these over it: extra spicy rum fizzed up with ginger beer and garnished with a lime wedge.
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This poem – this song – is one that has moved me since my childhood, and it’s so incredibly difficult to translate it into scent. I don’t know if I am capable of doing honor to Dunbar’s words; all I can do is craft something that is akin to how much this makes my heart clench. The scent I have chosen is a soft lavender with dry woods, carrot seed and iris, sandalwood smoke, and wisteria.
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Release your cares into a warm, soothing bath of liquefied hard candies.
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The blissful contentment of committing to exist in the moment: white sandalwood smoke, hinoki, white tea, and falling leaves.