Spring Moon Over Jasmine. Picture by Gail Gross ©
“With the nonetheless moonlight, unhappy and delightful,
That units the birds dreaming within the timber
And the fountains sobbing in ecstasy,
The tall slender fountains amongst marble statues.”
An excerpt from the poem ‘Clair de Lune’ from Fêtes Galantes by Paul Verlaine (1869).
There are numerous songs, portray and odes to the moon, and for good cause! The moon turns the tides, evokes our artwork and measures our lives in methods we’re solely starting to grasp. In lots of cultures the moon is projected as the female precept, the receptive or yin power that nourishes and gestates, patiently weaving the soul’s cloak of mortality within the darkness of the womb, marking time till new life is able to be born into the total radiance of the solar.
Moonrise, Spring 2020. Digital portray by Gail Gross ©
With photos of the latest Pink Tremendous Moon nonetheless contemporary in my thoughts, I take pride reveling and stress-free in The Harmonist Moon Glory.
Lola Karimova-Tillyaeva of The Harmonist
The Harmonist, launched in 2016 by proprietor and artistic director Lola Karimova-Tillyaeva, provides aromatic collections that deliver serenity to each physique and thoughts. Impressed by the 5 components of historical Chinese language Feng Shui and the Taoist rules of yin and yang, Lola Karimova-Tillyaeva, philanthropist, diplomat and former Uzbekistan ambassador to UNESCO, instills her perfumes with the romance of the Nice Silk Highway –“…the rarest and most valuable pure components from all around the world… harnessing the purest power ranges to create true signature scents.”
The Harmonist Moon Glory, Dr.Woo with Lola Karimova-Tillyaeva and Guillaume Flavigny of Givaudan. Photographs by The Harmonist © through Instagram
The primary of the 2 fragrances within the new Prequel Assortment, Harmonist Moon Glory is paired with its celestial reverse, Photo voltaic Power (coming fall 2020). Each perfumes had been created by world-renowned French perfumer Guillaume Flavigny of Givaudan. The meticulous, clear and exact artwork used for the bottles and the presentation of Prequel is the work of celebrated Los Angeles tattoo artist Physician Woo. This considerate collaboration between designer, perfumer and visible artist has resulted within the good tableau, an interdisciplinary expertise capturing the moon in all her mysterious glory.
Particulars from a Motto Print for the Francis William Bourdillon’s poem “The Evening Has a Thousand Eyes”. Picture by Gail Gross from her assortment of paper ephemera.
The Harmonist Moon Glory is precisely the calming, centering fragrance I’ve been in search of. The rapid impact of the distinctive mixture of pikake, evening blooming cactus flower and ylang-ylang is so soothing as to be nearly narcotic. Inside moments I discover myself spirited away via a dusky twilight to a silent realm of flowers, an olfactory dreamland the place all my worries, tales and obsessions fade right into a perfume that glows just like the moon itself. Sighs of passionflower and lychee float via the ethereal floral mist, the ripening fruit smoothed with notes of honey and balsam. The Harmonist Moon Glory is kind of lengthy lived. Alter eight hours and extra I nonetheless detect the jasmine and passionflower near my pores and skin and, days later, a passing breeze ruffles the sleeve of my coat, stirring traces of metallic, candy Australian sandalwood and recalling the cool hazy gleam of the spring moon.
Notes: Hawaiian Jasmine (pikake), Ylang-Ylang from Comoros, Chinese language Lychee, Queen of the Evening blossoms from Mexico, Ardour Flower from French Guyana, Laotian Natural Honey, Japanese Hinoki Wooden, Peru Balsam and Australian Sandalwood.
Disclaimer: I want to thank The Harmonist for my cherished bottle of Moon Glory. My opinions are my very own.
Gail Gross – Senior Editor
The Harmonist Moon Glory. Bottle photograph by Gail Gross ©
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