06/23/2021
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Grimm's forest
As a child you lost yourself between Grimm's lines, now it is the space between molecules in which you lose yourself. Now you are here. You still have the enthusiasm left, when the forest grows behind your eyelids, then your gaze becomes very wide - closed for a time.
Everything is still dark at first, as if you were diving through a cover into the book, and already you feel as if something were with you, wild and subtle like a piece of an animal, in the darkness you imagine it. And as the firs draw themselves into the darkness, smelling a little like cola with lemon, berries falling on warm damp clay soil, rolling out their orange flesh there and wild roots sprawling, you begin to look for old patterns, characters from old fairy tales.
Unnoticed, the adhesive binding of the spine of the book pushes a bar of sandalwood into your imagination at this point. Never mind. The wooden path leads through billowing incense, which came up in the twilight like gold dust, the mist of a hot-maroni wagon, which was driven further back across the footbridge until warm wood embers and black-moist ashes sizzle in creamy clay catacombs.
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Neil Morris of Boston, Massachusetts has been creating fragrances for over 30 years that are meant to make emotional connections to specific places, times, people, or emotions. "When I create a new fragrance I attempt to tap into these emotions and translate them into scent." he writes on his homepage. "He developed Black Forest exclusively for a small witchcraft shop in Salem, Massachusetts, The Coven's Cottage. The subtle, dark magic of this scent, the slightly animalic opening, the shadowy coniferous woods, the earthy, rooty nuances, the combination of slightly sticky sandalwood with the sweet flesh of juniper berries, the increasingly dominant ash-like smoke on a creamy balsamic base emotionally connected me to a Grimm's fairy tale in which I found myself for a good seven to eight hours.
(With thanks to the fairy tale uncle Chizza)
Everything is still dark at first, as if you were diving through a cover into the book, and already you feel as if something were with you, wild and subtle like a piece of an animal, in the darkness you imagine it. And as the firs draw themselves into the darkness, smelling a little like cola with lemon, berries falling on warm damp clay soil, rolling out their orange flesh there and wild roots sprawling, you begin to look for old patterns, characters from old fairy tales.
Unnoticed, the adhesive binding of the spine of the book pushes a bar of sandalwood into your imagination at this point. Never mind. The wooden path leads through billowing incense, which came up in the twilight like gold dust, the mist of a hot-maroni wagon, which was driven further back across the footbridge until warm wood embers and black-moist ashes sizzle in creamy clay catacombs.
**
Neil Morris of Boston, Massachusetts has been creating fragrances for over 30 years that are meant to make emotional connections to specific places, times, people, or emotions. "When I create a new fragrance I attempt to tap into these emotions and translate them into scent." he writes on his homepage. "He developed Black Forest exclusively for a small witchcraft shop in Salem, Massachusetts, The Coven's Cottage. The subtle, dark magic of this scent, the slightly animalic opening, the shadowy coniferous woods, the earthy, rooty nuances, the combination of slightly sticky sandalwood with the sweet flesh of juniper berries, the increasingly dominant ash-like smoke on a creamy balsamic base emotionally connected me to a Grimm's fairy tale in which I found myself for a good seven to eight hours.
(With thanks to the fairy tale uncle Chizza)
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