Who doesn't love Olfactive Studio, the new brand which emerged on Facebook as an experiment and became so popular in a short time? After the rendition of Camera Obscura I've presented this fall (the gorgeous leather plum chypre), it is time to speak about Autoportait, a profound and mysterious creation in dark hues with such an amazing trail.
Autoportrait brings the fragrance of an enchanted wood in silver tones with precious mosses and delicate whispers of incense. It is a familiar but strange scent, the heart of a wood. It evokes the dark woody cabinets, used once to preserve the precious vials, photos and souvenirs. Cedar, incense, soft amber and delicate balms are composing this portrait in darkness. It is delicate at start, but like a shadow in the dark, its power increases with time.
Like an old Venetian mirror surrounded by a woody ornament and unclear because of the darkening silver, the same used once in motion pictures, Autoportrait is surrounded by the smokiness of other worlds. Autoportrait (Olfactive Studio) is like a mirror, forgotten somewhere between objects from another centuries with a patina, or like those pictures which become darker with time.
Here, the combination cedar wood and incense evokes the unusual combination used once in Cuir de Lancôme, but the scent is set in our times. For instance, it portrays the woody cabinets and the waxed floor of a room where the shadow of a man wearing Gucci pour homme (the first one) was mirrored in the glass window, framing the Metropolis night.
Built with special ingredients from Firmenich, Autoportrait (Olfactive Studio) is the heart of woody notes, an answer to the equation of the unknown - The Self - which gives the access to the hidden meanings of our universe. I look at myself in my magic mirror and I perceive the beauty of the world, its magic scents are like vapors and fumes. That's why an old Venetian mirror is always dark, the odors of the Universe are constantly passing through its (living) silver surface.
Profound, but not descriptive, rather abstract like a mood which can hardly be explained, Autoportrait (Olfactive Studio) lingers in our memory like the scented trail of time, a trail of incense, a forgotten temple inhabited by our scent soul, l'âme soeur.
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