velvet sky
What a wonderful weekend!
Full of fragrant delights, little surprises and lots of sun under a blue sky. This year’s spring here in middle Europe is like a fasttrack to summer, it seems these days. It is already warm enough to sit outside in the evening and watch Venus rise on the horizon behind purple and white lilac flowers. Later, while sitting under a black velvet sky watching the stars and man made lights downtown, invisible waves moved in and out, waves of natural fragrances coming from the lilac bushes, powdery, somewhat reminding in schiff’s base and salicylates with a touch of terpene-based alkohols, like a natural dessert, making me wonder why you bother making perfumes yourself.
Well, I guess reasons are: To go beyond where nature goes, to take nature and set highlights, move perspective, show lines from a different angle, transform natural beauty into man made reflections.
In this sense, there is reason to come up sooner or later with a theme like hyacinth, talked about on this blog quite epically; a hyacinth that is transformed into something man made. Sniffing this hyacinth fragrance (you remember….hyacinth and a mechanic in the background) in between these lilac waves, I remembered Pascal’s smile when he sniffed it the first time, yesterday evening. I wanted to get his opinion and I haven’t sniffed it for a while myself. Thus, we sat together and sniffed and discussed about the mechanic, and almost forgot the reason for his visit…..
Thus, a wonderful weekend and the only bitter drop in this ocean of delights: The perfumer sits on his balcony and thinks about stocks and stuff for X-mas….