The Winner of the 5 Myrrhiad Samples Draw (fragranceandart.com)

 

It was  about a year ago when Pierre Guillaume released the first eight fragrances for his new Huitieme Art Parfums label.  In the first eight fragrances (reviewed here and here) the technique was mostly successful but if I had a tiny bit of criticism of the original eight fragrances it was that they felt like preliminary perfume sketches. I really wanted to see what M Guillaume would do when he could take a less voluminous approach and just concentrate on a single composition

The winner is FLORA please contact michelyn@cafleurebon.com  by November 17th 5:00 EST with myhrriad AS your subject and your address details.

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The five samples of Myrrhiad courtesy of Fragrance and Art

Zeus et Thetis, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, 1811

Editor's note: I believe Myrrhiad  might have a tie to the Illiad by Homer, which was set for several weeks during the Trojan war. It seems very much a Pierre Guillaume allusion that he often uses in his titles- notes and perfume stories

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  • Lisa says:

    Oh, I agree! Myrrhiad is certainly a play on words. Your example of “The Iliad” is perfect, as it means “Concerning Ilium,” and “Ilium” is Latin for Troy. This -ad ending has been used to comic effect, since it puts a reader in mind of epic poetry, as in “The Dunciad” and “The Bluesiad.” So in one way, it uses the Latinate ending (-ad, meaning “about” or “concerning”), to gesture toward the narrativity of perfumery — in this case, “concerning myrrh.”

    But also, Myrrhiad puts one in mind of the homophone “myriad,” which is also from the Greek, and means “ten thousand.”

    I just love creative fragrance names. Another favorite is Lutens’ Fille en Aiguilles, which contains three or four puns.