Peasants Fleeing (Witchcraft)

[Seajewel]

Yellow balsam, well-worn leather, dark musk, and mud-spattered wool.

[Casablanca]

This yellow balsam is interesting: It smells to me like sprigs of balsam pressed and dried against yellow parchment. The leather, which smells a dull grayish-brown and indeed well-worn, adds to the impression I’m getting of an old leather journal, perhaps abandoned with everything else at a rustic explorer’s camp… its mysteries waiting to be solved.

 

There's a scent of candle wax, too, also a bit yellowed and even cracked with age. It’s a little creamy, still, despite its age and abandonment.

 

I don’t notice musk or mud, but there is a wan darkness and some dusty wool fallen into disuse.

 

Without looking at the art at all, this smells to me like a scent of rustic isolation and some manner of wistful departure, whether of an area, or of a life, is unclear.