Reviews 17/02/2021

Sensuality and Fragility: Lost in Heaven Perfume Review / Francesca Bianchi Perfumes (2019)

Imagine all the people
Living life in peace

You may say that I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as one –John Lennon, 1971

As simple as these words and piano melody may seem, this is a complex song.

The vision behind it historically runs much deeper, just as the vision behind the perfume Lost in Heaven does, although it presents itself as seemingly simple happiness & well-being providing a fragrance that makes you want to hug the whole world.

That part is true but there’s more to it, so much more. Francesca Bianchi-style more.

My Lost in Heaven review was first published in Cafleurebon, and this is the version I edited in 2021.

Lotus Rising perfume bottle April Aromatics

Reviews 15/01/2021

April Aromatics Lotus Rising Review / Tanja Bochnig 2020

Lotus Rising perfume review (Tanja Bochnig), first published in Cafleurebon.

“The lotus flower blooms most beautifully from the deepest and thickest mud“ – Buddhist Proverb

Lotus – a flower with unparalleled resilience, a symbol of life, death, and rebirth often tied to spirituality inspired Tanja Bochnig during gloomy days in 2020 to create a fragrance that would offer hope and strength, and point us in the direction of illumination.

portrait of bocaccio decameron book cover

Lists 05/01/2021

The Decameron and Perfume in Quarantine: 3 Fragrant Stories

My The Decameron Stories and Perfume article was first published in Cafleurebon, and this is the version I edited in 2021.

“And the plague gathered strength as it was transmitted from the sick to the healthy through normal intercourse, just as the fire catches on to any dry or greasy object placed too close to it.

Nor did it stop there: not only did the healthy incur the disease and with it the prevailing mortality by talking to or keeping company with the sick–they had only to touch the clothing or anything else that had come into contact with or been used by the sick and the plague evidently was passed to the one who handled those things.”
― Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron

On a cold day of Winter in Anno Domini 2021, approximately one horribilis year after The Virus started to spread rapidly all over the world – I am still in (partial) lockdown.

And I continue to read books, observe physical reality and Zeitgeist, and write about fragrances: this is my (edited) story about The Decameron and Perfume in Quarantine.

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