Notes from the Perfumery — fragrance

Traders from southern Arabia would conjure fantastic stories of the hardships endured to procure these precious spices, claiming that the pepper groves were guarded by poisonous serpents that had to be burned away in order to be harvested (a claim ‘substantiated’ by the peppercorns’ signature dark, shrivelled appearance).

Bitter amber tears; a 5 000 year old ingredient.

Take that need for adventure and bewilderment into your backyard, and rediscover all the changing beauty and delights late fall has to offer; pink cheeks and frosted lashes; the crystal twinkle of frost beginning to form; the way new scents cut through the crisp, metallic tang of cold air and fill the changing landscape.

As the drama of autumn unravels and the curtain begins to slowly fall, mother nature lays down her coat of brilliant scarlet and gold. Her skirted blooms droop, her branches are stripped bare, and what fruit has been left behind returns to the soil, often with a sticky, wet pop. If Libra ushers autumn in with the beauty of abundance, then Scorpio balances the scales with the seduction of decay.