Spicy, Woody
And Frustration is what we need my friend.
By the Vanilla I remain.
MAIN NOTES
Top notes: Cumin HE, Cinnamon HE, Pure Rhum Jungle Essence™
Heart notes: Pure Vanilla Jungle Essence™, Vanilla Absolute, Ciste
Absolute
Base notes: Chestnut Wood Accord, Bourbon Vetiver HE, Vinyl Gaiacol
– MANE Biotech
FULL DESCRIPTION
A perfume is a mixture. A mixture like miscellanea that clash
between words and materials to explain just a little, without
explaining too much, the why of a perfume. Frustration.
During a summer a few years ago, while walking on the Ramblas in
Barcelona, I listened to a song by Rare Bird, an English band of
progressive rock from the 70s. The song was called Sympathy, and
the chorus was "and sympathy is what you need my friend, and
sympathy is what you need my friend cause there's not enough love
to go ‘round, No, there's not enough love to go ‘round...". And
there, suddenly, with the richness of a whole psychoanalytical past
(according to Lacan), this same past which sometimes foists my
strength on others or sometimes my great weakness on myself, there
emerged from the refrain a word stronger than sympathy. It planted
its black flag of melancholy in the heart of my mind, and issued
forth a word more correct, more vast, more true, more sincere, more
useful since forged in the experience of life: FRUSTRATION. And
then to sing again in my head the substituted refrain "...And
frustration is what you need my friend, and frustration is what you
need my friend."
Frustration, the eldest daughter of renunciation and the sister of
perfume, since perfume proceeds like frustration in the game of
love.
It gives by taking up, a fullness never satisfied, an enjoyment
started but never achieved, an infinite movement of desire without
completion, without apotheosis, an instillation that excites,
seduces, lulls, dominates and annoys like a Bolero by Ravel.
Frustration.
So take a vanilla bean, a garden rose with swollen red petals, some
old rum exploding with amber woods, a bourbon vetiver, bring each
of these materials to your senses. Frustration.
Breathe, taste the circulation of the unheard of beans, delectable
fermentation but never enough, where one asks for more, all
nostrils out, ... "More, more, let us take your redness deeper, and
become this animal with the dull mind of the child who wants to
enjoy and devour even more this chestnut wood, this cinnamon or
this vetiver until bursting, and then to bathe satiated in the
poetry of the smell." Frustration.
This is the love game of perfume, this is the game of love
according to Musset, Shakespeare or Racine. And it is so much the
better because satisfaction kills whereas desire makes you live by
creating movement through the ever renewed distance, so as to never
consume like a homicidal ogre. Frustration.
Happy are the consumers of desire, unhappy the consumers of
enjoyment.
Frustration, a perfume to awaken the strong child in the fragile
adult or the fragile child in the too-strong adult, a perfume for a
regressive journey to the dominion of vanilla, rum and vetiver.
An extraordinary State of Orange that you have to reach in order to
live passionately between the child and the adult with the memory
of what’s missing.