Like This by Etat Libre d'Orange (2011)

-
If anyone asks you
how the perfect satisfaction
of all our sexual wanting will look,
lift your face
and say,
Like this.
When someone mentions the gracefulness
of the nightsky, climb up on the roof
and dance and say,
Like this.
If anyone wants to know what "spirit" is,
or what "God’s fragrance" means,
lean your head toward him or her.
Keep your face there close.
Like this.
When someone quotes the old poetic image
about clouds gradually uncovering the moon,
slowly loosen knot by knot the strings
of your robe.
Like this.
If anyone wonders how Jesus raised the dead,
don’t try to explain the miracle.
Kiss me on the lips.Like this.
Like this.
When someone asks what it means
to "die for love," point here.
If someone asks how tall I am, frown
and measure with your fingers the space
between the creases on your forehead.
This tall.
The soul sometimes leaves the body, the returns.
When someone doesn’t believe that,
walk back into my house.
Like this.
When lovers moan,
they’re telling our story.
Like this..."

I must admit it: I love Tilda Swinton. I find her an amazing actress, unpredictable, exciting, and above all really beautiful. Her presence in a movie is enough to make me see it. So you’ll understand that when -more than a year ago- Etienne de Swardt, CEO of Etat Libre d'Orange, told me that this new addition was being worked together with Tilda, my expectations grew immediately high.
First of all it’s important to notice that color here is crucial: the orange-gold of the pack and bottle has a counterpart in many notes included in the pyramid (mandarin, ginger, carrot, pumpkin, helichrysum, neroli, May rose, vetiver Haiti, heliotrope, musc).
All the notes are perceived distinctly in a perfect blend of round and prickly sensations, roughness and softness, sensuality and harshness. Unusual, "strange" in a way that I’m not sure to be able to explain, Like This is a fragrance you need to wear to get a full idea, because it gives the best on skin. And in fact the strongest feeling when wearing it is related to light: pure transparent crystal glass, crossed by a ray of golden light. Simple to an almost ascetic level, it features a relevance that captured me immediately, a very strong intention (“intenzione”). It’s the proof that sometimes you don’t need words to be roaring to be heard, it’s enough if you are present here and now, and tell plainly your own truth. And Tilda definitely is there.
"Like This" is the title of the poem by Rumi (Sufi mystic and poet of the Middle Ages), which I put a piece above. It's Tilda’s favorite, and I believe it speaks about that feeling of, simply, "being", that is, holding the whole world's possibilities inside.
Happy Easter!

Tilda's Pic: from the web

Commenti

Posta un commento

Post popolari in questo blog

Arancia La Spugnatura (Francois Demachy per Acqua di Parma, 2023)

-
Immagine
La spugnatura è una delle più antiche tecniche di estrazione meccanica delle essenze agrumarie ; si tratta di un metodo manuale che richiede maestria e precisione, e sono pochi, ormai, gli artigiani che sono in grado di farlo.  Per spugnare (o “sfumare”) un agrume, si divide il frutto a metà . Attraverso un apposito attrezzo -una via di mezzo tra un coltello ed un cucchiaio, denominato “cavatore”- l'artigiano scodella via la polpa da ognuna delle due metà, lasciando integra la buccia . Questa viene poi piegata e pressata sopra una spugna naturale, che raccoglierà tutta l'essenza contenuta negli otricoli. Quando sarà completamente imbibita di essenza, la spugna verrà poi strizzata all'interno di un recipiente di coccio, e l'olio essenziale così ottenuto verrà lasciato decantare.  Ogni artigiano riesce a spugnare circa un quintale e mezzo di frutti al giorno, da cui si ricavano poco meno di 500 gr di essenza .  Se le essenze agrumarie si estraessero ancora in questo mo...
KEEP READING THIS POST*LEGGI TUTTO IL POST

Perris Montecarlo new release: Vetiver Java by Gian Luca Perris (2021)

-
Immagine
Vetiver is duality made plant.  The visible part is a bright green shrub whose long and thin leaves point towards the sky. The invisible part is a huge taproot embracing Mother Earth with such an exceptional vigor, difficult to overcome.  Evidently, vetiver's essence, too, expresses the same duality -and Java vetiver even better than any other type. On the one hand, you smell the freshness, the clarity of a cold winter day, the “push” upwards , to touch Heavens. On the other hand, there's the woody-green, dry, earthy, warm, smoked facet, endowed with the primitive and unconscious elegance of wild creatures. You smell the powerful roots, the effort of freeing them from Mother Earth's embrace, to clean them, to dry them, to work them... the work of man, his desire to take possession of such an intense and intimate embrace, to feel wrapped in it.  Capturing both these polarities is not easy; the composer must be able to listen deeply to the rew materials, and build a visce...
KEEP READING THIS POST*LEGGI TUTTO IL POST

Fleurs de Rocaille (Caron, 1934)

-
Immagine
Ho ricevuto questa preziosa fialetta di Fleurs de Rocaille, il vintage originale, da Anna Maria qualche tempo fa e la ringrazio molto per avermi fatto conoscere questo piccolo tesoro di Ernest Daltroff. Fleurs de Rocaille significa più o meno “fiori di pietraia” o “fiori di un giardino roccioso”, ed in effetti pur essendo essenzialmente un profumo fiorito esprime essenzialità, minimalismo raffinato. Sembra fatto oggi da qualche naso innamorato della luce e del cristallo. Sul sito di Caron viene definito un fiorito aldeidato, ma non immaginatevi il N.5 di Chanel o White Linen di E. Lauder. Ha una sua delicata dolcezza impressionista, evanescente, che mi ha ricordato l’Eau d’Hiver di Ellena. Non per le note scelte, ma per l’intenzione, per la sospensione nel tempo e nello spazio. Non ho trovato la piramide; sento del garofano (sapete quei garofanini piccoli, color porpora?), della violetta, forse una rosa un po’ speziata, e sicuramente del muschio, ma rarefatto, non potente. Se avete ...
KEEP READING THIS POST*LEGGI TUTTO IL POST