Aether Arts Perfume EarthRise image via Amber Jobin
This year we are thrilled that one of our best loved iconoclastic artisanal perfumers, Amber Jobin of Aether Arts Perfume is a finalist in the Artisan category of 2022’s Institute of Art and Olfaction Awards for Mayan Chocolate. Not one to rest upon her laurels, Amber shares her insatiable curiosity and creativity with us in her most recent release Aether Arts Perfume EarthRise.
Amber Jobin courtesy of the perfumer
“There may be life out there and habitable planets we could maybe call home but the logistics of this are only nominally within our grasp. Much better instead to see the Earth for what it really is: our mother, our spaceship and the source of all life as we know it. It’s time to rise to the challenge, to rise up as inhabitants of this planet to protect and save not only ourselves but all life on this beautiful, blue marble floating in space.” ~ Amber Jobin
Potent images possess the power to inspire us to thought, dreaming and action. They feed the soul and imagination – much as Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders’ magnificent photograph of Earth suspended in space has done, ever since its genesis on December 24, 1968. It is a fitting symbol to represent Amber Jobin’s billet-doux to our planet, an aromatic love-symphony composed of sea, soil and atmosphere. All the elements (save that of fire) conspire to evoke the life-giving attributes of Planet Earth: the perfumer conjures briny ocean and fresh air without the Calone overkill one is accustomed to experiencing in so many aquatic varieties of perfume. First to arrive is a melody infused with a salty driftwood-like note; it soon dovetails with the freshly-turned soil facet of geosmin and verdant floral voices. At this juncture, Aether Arts Perfume EarthRise is abloom, nascent with the pulse of new growth. The culmination of this scent triad lies within a complex sandalwood accord which confers roots to this evanescent invocation of terrestrial delights: we require all these components for life itself. EarthRise represents an amalgam, a microcosm all its own in celebratory mode, as complete as that exquisitely haunting blue-green marble it is our privilege to inhabit. It is such an illustrative, idiosyncratic fragrance which is a pleasure to wear.
The Blue Marble, courtesy of Amber
“Now, I am going on a journey
And I pray all things end well
While Mother Earth looks after me
I will follow faithfully
When the grasslands crave for water
And the harvest needs sunlight
These are times when I am helpless
Mother Earth makes all things right
Mother Earth lives on the ocean
Mother Earth sails on the sea
I am blessed with her devotion
Mother Earth provides for me.” ~ Mother Earth, written by Eric Kaz for folksinger Tom Rush
Top Notes: Atmosphere and Ocean Accord (Ozone, Salt Water);Middle Notes: Verdant Earth Accord (Rich Soil, Green and Flowering Plants); Base Notes: Opulent Sandalwood Accord (featuring sustainably-sourced Santalum Album and multifaceted Sandalwood notes)
Sample kindly provided by the perfumer – many thanks! It’s brilliant. My nose is my own…
~ Ida Meister, Deputy and Natural Perfumery Editor
Thanks to the generosity of Aether Arts Perfume, we have a 2 ml bottle of EarthRise for one registered reader worldwide. To be eligible, please leave a comment saying what strikes you about Aether Arts Perfume EarthRise based on Ida’s review, whether you have a favorite perfume from this house and where you live. Draw closes 5/3/2022
The iconic “pale blue dot” photograph of planet Earth, which was taken Feb. 14, 1990 by NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft, from a distance of 3.7 billion miles. As of January 2022 , Voyager 1 is believed to be more than 23 billion million miles from Earth,
Editor’s Note: Reading Ida’s review and Amber’s quote this passage from Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space immediately came to mind. “Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam”. Carl Sagan, 1994
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