Rubaiyat
Fragrance
Spicy floral
Rose, cardamom, wine lees
Seljuk Persia, 11th century. Persian poet and scholar Omar Khayyam composed quatrains extolling the delights of wine and voluptuousness. Finding inspiration in episodes of ecstatic inebriation, Khayyam continually juggled tolerant spirituality with material exhilaration.
Rubaiyat celebrates this moment of creative intoxication, when the conscience goes unhinged and the artist, liberated, looks at the world differently and becomes the bearer of a message he must convey through his art.
Olfactory canvas
Cardamom, Turkish rose
Wine lees, pepper, raspberry
Myrrh, cashmeran, ethyl maltol
Oh, come with old Khayyam, and leave the Wise
To talk; one thing is certain, that Life flies;
One thing is certain, and the Rest is Lies;
The Flower that once has blown for ever dies.
(wine and rose-scented quatrains)
Oh, come with old Khayyam, and leave the Wise
Oh, come with old Khayyam, and leave the Wise
AT THE HEART OF THE COMPOSITION
Under the petulant guise of cardamom and pepper, a rose is unveiled. Its glowing robe absorbs vapors of wine lees and raspberry, before extending into the meditative, blissful delights of myrrh, woods and resins.
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