Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring caused rioting in the audience when it was first performed for audiences in Paris in 1913. (Among other occurrences, Wikipedia notes that "the journalist and photographer Carl Van Vechten recorded that the person behind him got carried away with excitement, and 'began to beat rhythmically on top of my head,' though Van Vechten failed to notice this at first, his own emotion being so great.")
Conjure Oils made a series of perfumes based on each part of The Rite of Spring--I believe it's a recurring series that has been released a couple of times in the past, so it may show up again this year. I have a bottle of one of these scents, Adoration de la Terre, from 2012.
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Description from the website: "The Kiss of the Earth. Earthbound and beautiful; the blue dot in a sea of black that we call home. - Warm and golden as a summer's sunset: peach blossom honey, chthonic amber resin, toasted basmati rice, cured tobacco, sweet tea and blonde patchouli."
My thoughts:
Slightly strange marshmallowy top notes that quickly give way to an oddly unsweet combination of peach blossom and caramelly honey--that combination sounds cloying and sickly sweet, but it's tempered by the woodsy and slightly sharp fragrance of tobacco, lopping off the oversweet peaks of the scent and rounding out the base.
The peach blossom note is not as juicy as what I'd identify as peach fruit (a note that often recalls the synthetic, brash, and bossy Bath and Body Works lotions of my youth)--still has that round peach note to it, but carried on a soft white-floral base.
I find the scent quite beautiful as it dries down and settles on the skin. The peach and tobacco notes continue to be easily identifiable, though the peach starts to smell less floral and more boozy to me. The rest of the scent is a gentle bed of soft, rich golden notes, buoying up the peach and tobacco--the rice and amber combine into a mellow, underlying warmth, without feeling sharp or assertive at all in the mix, and the floral nature of the basmati note combines with the floral element of the peach blossom note to round out the heart of the scent.
I can't readily pick out the tea or patchouli as individual elements, but I feel the combination of notes in this perfume as a kind of a cloud of billowing warmth and fullness that radiates up from the skin as this wears on. It has a moderate throw, but nothing overbearing.
Sometimes perfumes can smell unfinished or thin to me--and sometimes that's exactly what I want, not very much, a soliflore or a splash of freshness--but Adoration de la Terre smells like a symphony, a full chord, with all the blank spaces filled in with fragrance. Warm, complex, and lovely.
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