Gallagher Fragrances Mists of Time and collage by Nicoleta©
Gallagher Fragrances Mists of Time felt like taking a trip through different colored rooms of an ancient temple, feeling the powerful sublimated essence of the mighty sun, filtered not through crystals but various color-coordinated olfactive ingredients. Who said healing has to be introspective and moody? This is one joyous, effervescent and uplifting rite of passage into something good, the kind of good that transcends time and cultures and we seem to be somehow pre-programmed to recognize it as such and long for it.
Color therapy is one of the oldest branches of medicine, being practiced even before 2000BC. In Egypt, at the root of the practice was the worship of the sun, and by concentrating the rays of light through colored crystals on the body of the person in need, they believed they could directly help the healing process. The Egyptians had temples dedicated in their entirety to healing through the light, having different rooms assigned to the healing powers of different colors. In nowadays, there are two techniques in using color therapy: one, the most common, is done just by looking at the color in the hope it will trigger the desired outcome, and the other is by reflecting certain colors on different parts of your body. How about a third way? A memory box of colourful olfactive memories?
Gallagher Fragrances Mists of Time, Photo credit Simon Noel, @simon_scents on Instagram
Throwback to a tangy and sweet creamsicle, eaten on the beach, at sunset, with sticky hands. The shadows of the evening are getting longer and the sun has the orange hue that immediately tells you that august is here, and that means summer has begun its countdown to autumn. But there is still time, you must make the best of it! You order one more Mandarin Crush cocktail, and inhale its fizzy sizzle, as you gulp it down. Time for another endorphin kick! A naughty swirl of lemon peel sticks out in the air, decorating a fancy piece of desert, the kind that has the perfect slice of candied orange stuck on top of the scrumptious vanilla cream filling.
Ingredients & possible side effects: Yellow (limes & bergamot – will improve your mood and make you more happy and optimistic) & Orange(candied orange &mandarin– will help you surface happy emotions, will stimulate appetite and mental activity).
Annie Spratt, via Unsplash apped
I absolutely love to wear black currant in summer, as Jo Malone’s Blackberry & Bay has been a staple of my summer wardrobe for years. So I was more than delighted when, on the skin Gallagher Fragrances Mists of Time, immediately after the orangey goodness of the top notes, I was sliding on the deep blue slide of the blackcurrant. And it smells right the way blackberries taste: deep, juicy, bruising your taste buds with violet and purple yumminess, summoning the aura of a forest on your skin. The blue mauve coolness fades into more neutral and warm nuances, varying from beige to deep browns, and alternating them with deep greens and earthy olives. We slide between light wood nuances from birch and cedar all the way to the dark and olive green of cypress, with patchouli adding even deeper hues. We switch and alternate between textures of fuzzy suede and rough leather and the sweetened corners of tobacco leaves.
It feels calm and reassuringly empowering, like the silhouette of Clint Eastwood, with his iconic half-smile, putting out a cigar with the point of his cowboy boot. “We ride at dawn”
Color palette with Unsplash image collage by Nicoleta
Like a flash of silver lightning, that constantly brakes the blue skies above, there’s an undercurrent of cool-toned mineral freshness that runs all the way through the fragrance, making it lift in the summer air and never be too much, too masculine, or too heavy. There is also another sweet, warm, ambery thread, unraveling from the top to the base notes, that comes from the sweet-deep-almost-bitter caramelized nuances of candied oranges, the creamy vanilla, the honeyed tobacco, all the way to the fluffiness and comfort of musk. An awesome mix of bottled-up reassuring confidence, uplifting optimism, and overall good-mood-in-a-bottle, Gallagher Fragrances Mists of Time is one fragrance to take into account this summer even if you are not a believer in color therapy or the mighty power of uplifting scent.
“I can see clearly now the rain is gone
I can see all obstacles in my way
Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind
It’s gonna be a bright (bright)
Bright (bright) sunshiny day” Jimmy Cliff song, 1993
Daniel Gallagher of Gallagher Fragrances and his wife Mindy Ruiz from the Art and Olfaction ceremony courtesy of the perfumer. They won the Aftel Handmade award for Behold Patchouli) and were featured in the 3 American Indie Brands you should be wearing video
A note from the brand: “Mists of Time is inspired by happy memories, those of the past and of the future, but more generally, by time itself. Time is our greatest asset, worth more than all the money in the world. Who will you spend your Mists of Time with? Where will you be? What will you be doing? A new olfactory memory awaits…”
Notes: Lime zest, Candied Orange, Mandarin, Bergamot, Black Currant, Alaskan Cypress, Cedar, Birch, Leather, Patchouli, Tobacco, Mineral notes, Vanilla and Musk
Nicoleta Tomsa, Senior Editor
Disclosure: Sample of Gallagher Fragrances Mists of Time kindly provided by 7scents Perfumery in Budapest, opinions are my own
Gallagher Fragrances Mists of Time© courtesy of the perfumer
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