As a nod to beautiful ambery fougere fragrances of jive (think Jicky) I added a real amber base which I tainted a bit with opoponax. The result as you can tell is deeper, more sensuous, very skin friendly and extremely long lasting. Roja in particular was delighted about this amber addition.
This collection started out as one Solifleur and turned into a whole garden! It was a HUGE project for me, really my own private “Opus” inside of Opus Oils
And Hashem said to Mosheh [Heb. Moses] take for yourself sweet spice, stacte, and onycha with galbanum; sweet spice with pure frankincense; they shall be of equal weight. And you shall make incense of it, a frankincense like a perfumer makes; with salt, pure and holy
Keiko’s goal was to transport us to two very different climes:The Japan of the delicate, velvety camellia, and the Goa of our sun-drenched dreams
They reveal themselves very differently, but there is no doubt in my mind that a great deal of care, consideration, and tenderness went into their conception.
And for those with a passion for fragrance, there are more sweet-scented flowers than you may ever encounter in Bali -such profusion again. Massive gardenias, jasmine trailing from branches, frangipani trees…and champaca flowers
I am from the West and this fragrance is definitely Eastern. For many of us notions of the desert being romantic are from art, movies and books Like many veils stripped away slowly, Oasis reveals its beauty in a true natural Arabic perfume
