DSH Perfumes Emerald Hyrax courtesy of the perfumer
Green, how I want you green.
Green wind. Green branches.
The ship out on the sea
and the horse on the mountain.
With the shade around her waist
she dreams on her balcony,
green flesh, her hair green,
with eyes of cold silver. ~ Romance Sonámbulo, Federico García Lorca
A page from Romance Sonámbulo apped by MC©
I crave Lorca’s green: passionate, dangerous, vividly inscrutable. I’ve been in pursuit of that hue since I devoured these verses as a young girl. Green as the greater mystery, phantasm, a ghostly presence occupying the imagination rendered tangible. Amorphous longings of thwarted desire. In the hands of Art and Olfaction award winning artisan perfumer Dawn Spencer Hurwitz, my spectral, fleshly green has assumed the form of DSH Perfumes Emerald Hyrax – one of her many recent fragrant offerings. It garnered my attention immediately, with its inimitable shape-shifting jolie-laide persona: a perfume which commences as delectably poisonous, only to dry down into the fuzzily amiable, adorable creature it later becomes.
Ida’s stunning vintage emerald earrings
The perfumer and I share a passion for vintage fragrances and jewelry (although not my assigned birthstone, emeralds have long held me in their thrall, and represent the rising sign and Venus placement in my natal chart.). Their association with truth, love, fidelity and healing resonates deeply – although these facets were not known to me when I first succumbed to their allure. I’m of the belief that truths and revelations eventually out themselves over the fullness of time – with or without our say-so. DSH Perfumes Emerald Hyrax affected me powerfully from the very start on a level I couldn’t explain away.
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Aldehydes fizz and lend their effervescent voice to Emerald Hyrax’s ensuing verdant symphony which skillfully employs galbanum, cognac, green tea, cypress, pine moss and needle and green oakmoss in its aromatic arsenal of greens. Dawn has constructed a tender fern accord comprised of bergamot, liatrix, rose and rose geranium (no lavender listed) and tonka – a suave delight. Its floral complexity is a wonder. In homage to the great chypres we both love, no expense is spared: glorious dollops of three different jasmines, muguet, violet, orris and lily grace its expansive heart. Velvety musk and a dash of amber consort with a cornucopia of animalics: cumin, African stone tincture (the hyrax!), castoreum, civet and ambergris bejewel Emerald Hyrax’s base. I perceive slender threads of salinity in this perfume which weave in and out, as if on a loom. Earth and ocean conjoin.
Brooch courtesy of Dawn Spencer Hurwitz
One of the unforeseen pleasures of DSH Perfumes Emerald Hyrax entails its transition into the realm of playfulness. After all the drama has played out – the sparks, dark undercurrents, the winsome bouquet – Emerald Hyrax has developed into cosy aromatic comfort, a charming furry-bellied companion. If that isn’t sorcery – what is?
Notes: aldehydes, bergamot, cognac, cumin, fern accord, damask rose absolute, centifolia rose absolute, Egyptian rose geranium, green tea absolute, neroli, orange blossom, grandiflorum jasmine, juhi jasmine, jasmine sambac, muguet, violet, orris concrete, liatrix, lily, cypress, galbanum, African stone tincture, castoreum, civet, ambergris, amber, ciste absolute, green oakmoss, pine moss, pine needle absolute, musk, tonka bean absolute
Sample thoughtfully provided by the perfumer – many thanks! My nose is my own…
~ Ida Meister, Deputy and Natural Perfumery Editor
DSH Perfumes Emerald Hyrax courtesy of Dawn Spencer Hurwitz
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