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from Heather @ memory & desire(Quelque Parfum) - Rainer Maria Rilke - Malgré le ciel encore bas et cet air qui chancelle, quelque chose nouvelle flotte vers l’odorat. Quelque parfum tout vert discrètement se dégage. Un plaisir déménage: le printemps est ouvert. (Some Perfume) …
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from Mary @ Tea, Sympathy, and PerfumeI’ve been drying the beautiful white roses that Phil gave me for Valentine’s Day. Today I used them to make a Faery Crown for the May Queen.Here’s a fanciful little poem I wrote this morning for all of you gorgeous, beauty-loving, supportive and fantas…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“If one were forced to select a single word to exemplify Elizabeth Bishop’s peculiar charm and power, it might well be “No,” which keeps resurfacing at key moments. This was hardly a cry against life’s challenges and opportunities. Rather it was a self…
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from Heather @ memory & desireIris - by David St. John - Vivian St. John (1981-1974) There is a train inside this iris: You think I’m crazy, & like to say boyish & outrageous things. No, there is A train inside this iris. It’s a child’s finger bearded in black banners. A single win…
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from Heather @ memory & desire“Keep me fully glad…” - by Rabindranath Tagore - Keep me fully glad with nothing. Only take my hand in your hand. In the gloom of the deepening night take up my heart and play with it as you list. Bind me close to you with nothing. I will spread myse…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingThe ReassuranceAbout ten days or soAfter we saw you deadYou came back in a dream.I’m all right now you said. And it was you, althoughYou were fleshed out again:You hugged us all round then,And gave your welcoming beam. How like you to be kind,Seeking t…
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from Heather @ memory & desirePublic Transportation - by Elaine Sexton - She is perfectly ordinary, a cashmere scarf snugly wrapped around her neck. She is a middle age that is crisp, appealing in New York. She is a brain surgeon or a designer of blowdryers. I know this because I a…
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from Heather @ memory & desireChristophe Laudamiel defies categorization. He is one of the most sought-after perfumers working today, but he is also an inventor, chemist, artist, educator, and fearless pursuer of his own ideals. I first became aware of his name in November 2006 whe…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingThe French Quail Monogamy is rare in mammals. Only a handful have ever been faithful lovers: beavers, otters, bats, a couple of rodents, porcupines, dolphins, certain foxes, a few hoofed goats, and a primate or two. Birds, on the oth…
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from Heather @ memory & desireThe poem that we’ve been exploring for the last two weeks, “In a Station of the Metro,” took Ezra Pound almost two years to write. I suppose, then, that it’s not such a great shame that I am at a loss for words in response to the great outpouring of cr…
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from Zz @ LZPMemory and DesireMy contribution to this wonderful project went up yesterday. And to Heather. Can you hear the hands clapping. You have done an amazing job.I was not at all surprised by the diversity of vision, presented by the other perfumers. In fact…
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from Heather @ memory & desireEdgar Degas: L’absinthe (The Absinthe Drinkers) In a Station of the Metro The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. - Ezra Pound - I went through a Lost Generation phase in my teens. And have always been a fan of Ezra Po…
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from Heather @ memory & desireIn a Station of the Metro The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. - Ezra Pound When asked to participate in an “imaginative adventure” where I would get a short poem to translate into a fragrant picture, I was utterl…
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from Heather @ memory & desire- In a Station of the Metro - The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. - Ezra Pound - Dear Heather, Since one of my major modes of expression is through aroma, I have created a fragrance that represents my initial impre…
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from Heather @ memory & desireIn a Station of the Metro The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. Ezra Pound It’s hard to say what most appeals to me about this poem – the tactile and photographic impression it leaves in me; the rhythm of the wor…
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from Heather @ memory & desireIn a Station of the Metro The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. My first thought upon reading the poem that Heather sent me is that I got very lucky. Not only is it a fun, jaunty little poem, but also the “Metro”…
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from Heather @ memory & desire(click on the graphic above for an enlarged version) Transport On a Theme by Ezra Pound Perfumes transport, trains transport: the movement, the moment of scent commingled, then dispersed. This image came to me in a dream. When I awoke after the dream a…
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from Heather @ memory & desireIn a Station of the Metro The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. -Ezra Pound- In a Station of the Metro Re:Mix, Real:Mix, Reel:Mix A gulping blackhole towards a shiny blackbody Only fourteen ingredients, top, bottom, …
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from Heather @ memory & desireFragrant Thoughts On: The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. On “In a Station of the Metro” This is how Ezra Pound introduces his famous haiku: “Three years ago in Paris I got out of a “metro” train at La Concorde, an…
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from Heather @ memory & desireIn a Station of the Metro The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. - Ezra Pound - I imagine the author “scences” in each face A fragrance all its own, A beautiful signature Each unique, Content to stand alone. Sweet str…
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from Heather @ memory & desireEzra Pound: In a Station of the Metro The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. With my very idiosyncratic process, the words (the poem “brief”) create an image or images, as if they were visual pieces. From there I begi…
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from Heather @ memory & desireIn a Station of the Metro The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. - Ezra Pound - I’m walking through Grand Central NY, I hear lots of voices speaking in many languages. I have a moment of déjà vu, and feel that I am …
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from Heather @ memory & desireIn a Station of the Metro The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. by Ezra Pound The poem gave me a feeling of being underground and looking up through a hole. This underground space became a grave, six feet under groun…
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from Zz @ LZPAs I was sitting, looking out the window, this morning. Sipping my tea and watching the rain fall I was reminded of the line. Petals on a wet, black bough. From the Ezra Pound Poem:In a Station of the MetroThe apparition of these faces in the crowdPeta…
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from Heather @ memory & desireIn a Station of the Metro The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. Ezra Pound My base would be built around tonka absolute and costus. Warm and sweet like caramel, tonka is the ultimate powdery note. Costus, with its co…
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from Heather @ memory & desireIn a Station of the Metro The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. - by Ezra Pound - From Poetry, April 1913. Online text via Poetry Foundation. The current spacing of the text is from a later modification of the poem b…
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