Mystery of Musk - Drifting Sparks - Fong of Artemesia Natural Perfumes

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My heart almost beat out of my chest when I smelled Drifting Sparks by

Fong of Artemisia Natural Perfumers. As soon as I smelled it I

felt myself to immediately be transported to the middle of a running

stream in a very vivid green place just before dawn. It was a dawn in

which, standing right in the water of the stream, I can still smell

the night flowers hanging from their vines finally closing as the

light increases; but their perfume hangs in the air as the sun rises,

seemingly leaving a trail of sparks as it reflects upon the dappled

water, and we begin then to smell the more soft resinous notes of

forest trees as they warm in the early sun- there are cedar and bois

de rose, and a honeycomb perhaps in a hollow tree nearby. Nearby, a

fragrant pink rose on a vine opens to the first rays of the sun,

mingling with jasmine sambac and orange blossom. There is a lingering

musk all around us which Fong has created as a central musk chord

composed of angelica root, ambrette, black currant, oud, sandalwood,

and others. Many of these ingredients have an intensity that requires

experience and skill in handling, which Fong has wrought this

marvellously. Complex but never crowded, Drifting Sparks is a sensual

treat from the first whiff until the last ghost of the perfume remains

in a musky memory upon the skin.

Alfred Eberle