Natural beauty

I am kind of trapped in Marlboro Men world. South Western USA, New Mexico dreamland, the land of the free and of natural beauty. Perfume wise I couldn’t stop thinking about how to reach the vision of my true leather-wood scent. Reading one page again in Roudnitska’s le parfum about beauty I imagined that it is time to break the symmetry and introduce a break, no mercy, no concessions. Think about it: Organic, natural beauty is symmetry and simplicity without concession, with intrinsic flaws breaking harmonies. (And, as Roudnitska justly mentions: There is no need to study and educate oneself to instantly recognize this beauty. Be it the natural beauty of a human face, be it the loveliness of a perfume’s composition. We have all a sense for beauty….isn’t this great?)

Thus, I introduced a tension while keeping things simple, bringing things more to the point, aiming at breaking the boredom of too symmetrical a composition: A crisp, radiant, sharp tone (a trace of Ylang and Jasmine, with lots of decenal, 4-trans) juxtaposed to the warm, grim, vibrant ash-smoke note of Birchtar (lots of it!). The main composition not touched principally, except for some Rose instead of Neroli in the head (adding softness to the harsh spicy accents), replacing Cardamom by Cinnamon (within IFRA limits) and exchanging Lavender by Linalool to get rid of a touch of sweetness which was disturbing.

A never ending story… and I sincerely hope not to bore my readers too much… riding with Marlboro Men is somewhat painful, but a least you get a lot of natural beauty to admire on the way.