Gabriella Chieffo and Danu Seith-Fyr, Esxence, 2019

One of my favorite perfumes at Esxence 2019 was Gabriella Chieffo 1, 2, 3 Stella. Her fragrances are magnetic charges that draw me to  the  Maison Gabriella Chieffo collection  as I know without doubt that I will recognise components of myself within the stories that speak from Gabriella’s scents. She has the rare ability to translate deep and fragile human emotions, capturing those moments of life, delicate strands drawn out of ecstasy or torment and those moments of revelation and strong change.

 

Josephine Cardin

‘And I will breathe from jasmines the tyrant song, in waves of sea and wonder to become another me, suspended from you, to pursue destinies, to enchant happiness.’  Gabriella Chieffo.

 

 

Karya, Christian Martin Weiss

 Gabriella Chieffo 1,2,3 Stella is the children’s game of statues, herald’s transitions that are revelatory, held within thoughts until courage is gifted.  Traversing life knowing of some imbalance, how often we must be frozen in time, taken to the teetering pivot edge. To the point where we are stilled, in sudden acknowledgement that change is undeniably imminent. Like in the game of children, careering through the playground, faster and faster yet at the call, ‘1 2 3 Stella’, we are shocked into motionlessness, whilst the world turns.  In clarity we can see what is required and know without doubt that to not heed would be folly. Those collisions out of sheer coincidence that draw back the veils in luminescence, like a streetlight cast into shadows revealing a new direction in the road.

Drink in the disequilibrium, feel the certainty of the imbalance, welcome it as the way to step beyond the fears and retrieve the swallowed self, lost in family history or relationship compromise. In the unsteadiness find again the foothold. Boldness and courage draw us on, no other way possible.

 

via Gabriella Chieffo

‘Solitudes realised and detachments sought to be something different, something else. I can’t exist as you want me too, I can’t walk your steps with my shoes, I can’t write the script you dictate.’ Gabriella Chieffo.

Ginger, Mandarin and Bergamot liberally saturated with salinity invokes me to re-join the wonder state of the infant, remembering how I began, how clear the world was perceived and how I discovered, little by little my internal self. The feeling of tender reactions in the moment without adult preconception.  It wakens in me the necessity for essential self-truth and non-deception in actions.  How often do we know inherently the path of our Truth, yet shy away?

Chiara Fersini Collage, Danu Seith-Fyr.

Lightness extreme at its floral core, it exudes a clarity which is beyond challenge, a beautiful rendition of floral composition replete. Thoughts turn to right action, stepping out of the confines of bondage imposed by others.  Jasmine, creamy and full, a confirmatory encompassment, interlacing a tuberose so freshly sprung, wrought through with a verdancy that speaks in a fragile tumult of the restored Self, an inevitable naissance. Centre stage it takes me to an aperture in a grey landscape where upon stepping through I am shown glorious florals in abundance, ylang ylang and lilac complete the serenity of the taken decision.

Song of Moonflower, Brooke Shaden

There on the other side, the relief of the confirmation tinged in hues of the as yet unknown, a realignment of self-harmony, balance redressed,  the sheen imparted musks, wood’s and amber, cajole a calmness after great change, the butterflies wing beat felt as hurricane subsides, the bitter cacao a herald of triumph, that the edge of the blade has been sharpened, life has been bought into a defined focus and footsteps know their way on unfamiliar ground.  This evolvement of 1, 2, 3 Stella percolates me with a refined excitement within, of something immense yet essential achieved and the way full of potential, a life renewed.

Notes: Ginger, Green Mandarin, Bergamot, Saline notes, Jasmine, Tuberose, Ylang Ylang, Lilac, Musk, Sandalwood,Patchouli, Amber, Bitter Cacao,Oakmoss

Danu Seith- Fyr, Senior Contributor

Sample kindly provided by Gabriella Chieffo at Esxence 2019, opinions my own.

Photo by Ermano Picco

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