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...
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Domanda più seria: quando snifferemo le molecole "animalesche"? Voglio capire sino a che punto non le sento...
Per quanto riguarda le molecole animalesche intendi materie prime naturali animali (ambra grigia, zibetto ecc) oppure proprio le molecole sintetiche tipo muscenone, zibettone, indolo, ecc?
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