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PAN, Wild about Nature

Posted by Unknown 23 June, 2011 2 comments

PAN

Wild about Nature

The most talked about fairy in A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare is Puck. Puck was the obedient servant of Oberon, King of the Fairies.

Whatever had to be done, you could always count of Puck to complete the task. There is another version of this story but it comes from a Greek legend. In Greek mythology there is a figure that is not quite considered a fairy but he is considered a God.

Pan, is the God of Nature and that would include meadows, forests, beasts and even human nature.

The character of Pan can be quite controversial between Christians and Pagans but nevertheless, there are qualities about Pan that are worth mentioning. First, Pan speaks for the innocent such as the children, he protects all animals and especially women.

I honestly see Pan has a passionate God, he sees the good in the living and protects it from destruction. Shouldn’t we all be like this?

I picture in my mind the scene of the forest in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The fairies are always in the forest and this scene of enchantment deals with the fairies who deal with humanistic situations with serene tall trees, green grass and animals roaming freely.

Pan is known for taking the forms of different animals. I think of Nick Bottom for example, who was turned in a donkey.

When I think of nature, I think of green earthy tones that fill the air with a mossy scent buried inside a musky log hidden behind a pine tree that is bursting with a lemony smell.

I must confess, I am a fan of chypre. It gives me a deep feeling of completeness and wholeness that is actually indescribable.

Thank goodness for a fragrance that speaks for my indescribable feelings. PAN from Perfume by Nature leads you into a journey of a woody citrus forest that is guarded by Pan, God of Nature. You immediately notice patchouli that sings of a deep moment in the wild.

Then you are guided into a forest full of oak trees covered in moss. The tall dark trees towering over the forest with a heavy passion for dark and intense moments that arise in PAN.

Quickly PAN dries on the skin into a sweet passion fruit state of mind. I really enjoyed this journey with Pan, God of Nature. It showed me that nature is better when left alone without the use of chemicals and pesticides to ruin what is really intended for its goodness.

Now, I understand why Pan is so wild about nature. It is a wonderful place to be and thanks to Pan, Ambrosia Jones was able to compose a beautiful perfume with a beautiful message through her knowledge of the God who is passionate and respectful of all Things Living.

INFORMATION: perfumebynature.com.au

F.H.

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TITANIA by Bellatrix Perfumes

Posted by Unknown 22 June, 2011 1 comments

TITANIA

The solo flight to realization

Titania, Queen of the fairies married to Oberon, King of the fairies is a very proud creature that is always surrounded by her fairies who sing sweet lullabies while she falls to sleep.

Titania is a loving person who hasn’t experienced the horrors of life in respect to be dealt with wrongly. She has her fairies there to protect her from the unpleasantness of life such as snakes, spiders and beetles.

The fairies could not protect Titania for what is about to happen. No one figured the fact that jealously by her husband would become a major issue. He was jealous of Titania's relationship with the Indian Boy. It was only a friendship, so why would Oberon secretly be that angry with Titania for such an innocent reason. Shakespeare's version did not answer this question, so I can only come to my own conclusions.

Well, this issue for Oberon was bigger than it seem so therefore he had to do something about it. The fairies do not have powers over the King, so while Titania was sleeping, Oberon’s servant, Puck used the flower, “love-in-idleness” and placed the drippings of this flower onto Titana’s eyelids for her to wake up and be in love with the first thing she would see.

Oberon’s bet would be an animal in the forest but while Titania was sleeping, it was one of the most pleasant dreams of her life.

It was of the scent of rose buds and violets. It was the scent of perfume and with this in mind, Titania by Bellatrix Perfumes composed by Ankica Milic took the challenge boldly by preparing a scent depicting the dream of Titania in the woods where her faith would be tested.

TITANIA is a compelling fragrance that literally takes you inside the woods while Titania is laying down fast asleep with the scent of roses and violets and chypre scented grass and trees hovering over her like a full bloom Rosewood tree.

Puck takes center stage again as he uses a flower to help him make the spell a success. He doesn't care about the results. He just does what he is told for the most part but there are those times he adds his own version of the story. This time Puck stayed on course and took the “love-in-idleness” to Titania's eyelids but according to faith, that was not strong enough.

Ankica took the spell on Titania and placed it carefully and completely with the surrounding in the forest so beautifully in a poetic form that keeps Titania's dreams pure and pleasant.

Titania, the perfume features rosewood, pink pepper, menthe peperita, tuberose, rose damascene absolute, Neroli, Iris, labdanum, violet leaf, orris butter, sandal album, angelica root, ambrette, oak moss and patchouli

Titania's light and delicate spirit was something Oberon could not destroy when she awaken to have fallen in love with Nick Bottom who had been given the head of a donkey.

Through this trial and tribulation, Titania weathered the storm and she could never let the love and joy of the Indian Boy go away even under a spell.

Titania, the perfume takes me through each chapter of Titania’s life with an elegant portrayal of love being tested by an evil-doer.

A walk through the woods doesn’t have to be a frightened experience, Ankica Milic’s version of Titania’s life through a fragrance so determined to give Titania the victory, is a spell I would not mind having cast on me.

INFORMATION: bellatrixperfumes.com

BLOG: be-bellatrix.blogspot.com

PHOTO CREDITS: Rosewood Trees at Morme Seychellois National Park (victorianogden.blogspot.com), Puck sprinkling spell on Titania (art.com), Titania's beautiful world (100prettythings.blogspot.com), Vivian Leigh as Titania (lib.washington.edu), Ttitania and the Indian Boy (by Joseph Paton 1821-1901) delivery.superstock.com

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DREAMS by Yuko Fukami/PARFUM PHYTO

Posted by Unknown 16 June, 2011 6 comments

DREAMS

The scent that evokes the enchantment

Dreams, we all have them. Rather it is dreaming about going to an exotic location for a vacation, obtaining a bigger home or dreaming of starting a business venture, we all dream.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream-A Scent Event is a sensory celebration that allows natural perfumers to envision or to “dream” of what it would be like to be in an enchanted fairytale located in the woods where fairies are obligated to help the lives of humans who often times make mistakes in decision making.

These perfumers take those visions in their minds and translate them using the world’s finest fragrance notes into a poetic literary marvel that speaks to our minds, hearts and souls.

Hermia & Helena

All of the characters in A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare have a dream. For example, Helena’s “dream” or conquest is to have Demetrius fall in love with her and Hermia dreams of being able to marry Lysander and not Demetrius as her father wishes.

It takes a lot of ingenuity to makes your dreams become a reality and that is why I am obligated without any persuasion to write about my aromatic experiences with the fragrances designed for this artistic scent event.

Dreams can come in colors as well as scents and the fragrance, DREAMS is an indication that in this case dreams do come true if you follow your "nose".

DREAMS is a fragrance composed by Yuko Fukami of Parfum Phyto. DREAMS takes us deep inside the walls of our minds and into a place that is deep inside the woods. It is a place of solitude that speaks to our soul with plenty of room for self-evaluation.

Yuko eloquently simplifies this most difficult task of having our most innermost moment exposed into an enchanting scent that brings the essence of Shakespeare’s play into a thought provoking piece of literature.

DREAMS is a woody scent that brings a lively spirit to an area in the woods that can be dark, dreary and damp. Its enchanting and magical powers bought many fairies to this area to perform their duties for humankind.

This woody scent is a bright indication that all dreams are not bad. It creates the attitude that “I can do all things that are possible”. It magnifies the mind with the following.

Top Notes: coriander, Virginian cedar wood

Middle Notes: tuberose, violet leaf, cassie

Base Notes: hay, flouve, ambrette seed and ambergris

DREAMS, the fragrance is not just for sleeping or the faint of heart, it is also for daydreamers, too.

INFORMATION: parfumphyto.blogspot.com

yuko@parfumphyto.com

PHOTO CREDITS: Green FairyWP by Pygar (escapeintolife.com), A Day in the Forest by Celtic Dreaming (deviantart.com), Helena and Hermia (artexpertswebsite.com), Girl sleeping by saintssilkymoped (photobucket.com)

F.H.

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A Midsummer Night's Dream: It's all about the fairies

Posted by Unknown 12 June, 2011 0 comments

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

It’s all about the fairies

A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare is the most fantasy filled play that is compelling and holds the imagination.

This play has so many characters that enrich our lives in one way or another. It leaves each of us beholding to the moral of the story, however when I think of A Midsummer Night’s Dream…I think of fairies.

Those menacing tiny creatures flutter all about trying to "cease the moment" and ease into our conscious with their overwhelming spirit.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream- A Scent Event created and hosted by Amanda Feeley of Esscentual Alchemy will delight all of our senses with special scents created by the most astute natural perfumers worldwide.

I will delight in the fairies swirling all around me as I analyze each drop of potions to my nose. It will be a fantasy that I long for with great gratification.

While browsing the internet several days ago, I came upon “fairy enriched” items such as perfume bottles that seem to twinkle with curiosity. A Midsummer Night’s Dream inspired candle and a painting filled with the spirit of William Shakespeare’s play that lives on for generations to read.

Note: A Midsummer Night's Dream-A Scent Event is an online event for participating perfumers and bloggers. The natural perfumers created the scent inspired them and the bloggers comment on the scent on each of their individual blogs.

See Esscentual Alchemy for more information.
esscentualalchemy.wordpress.com

PHOTO CREDITS: fairy perfume bottles (treasuredfinds.com), candle (yankeecandle.com), A Midsummer Night's Dream photo (cache2.allposetersimages.com)

F.H. Thank goodness for A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the play because without it there would be no fairies and no Scent Event by Amanda Feeley to engage perfumers and bloggers with “oodles of fun”.

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