Jeanette Price of Wax Poetic

Language is strong, influential, and powerful.  It’s how we share our knowledge, our experiences, our story.  Perfumer Jeanette Price is able to take these attributes and transform them into scent with her new perfume line Wax Poetic.

Wax Poetic combines Jeanette’s passions for language and perfumery, pairing poems with scent to share stories and bring us into them.  The line launches with three perfumes: Ember, Flight, and Fruition.

Sally Harrison Coming Home

Ember tells a tale of renewal and overcoming loss, speaking of a wheat field burned down in spring only to grow anew and bear harvest in summer.  The perfume begins with a sharp, green, woody note that conveying a dryness and tension of something about to happen.

Smokiness starts to weave into the green, the smoldering of a fire approaching.  The green note recedes and as the field burns, but the smoke never becomes choking or noxious.  Instead it starts to warm, and then fade as smells of new life springs forth.  Coumarin suggests the sprouts of growing grasses, life renewed, and deepens into ripened crops of wheat and hay. Ember is Wax Poetic’s twist on a fougére.  The perfumer provides us notes of galbanum, fir needle, coumarin, ripening wheat, and underlying tones of soft smokiness.  Ember has good longevity and sillage, and like smoke it can carry on clothing into the next day.

Sally Harrison Flight

Flight speaks to us of gathering the strength and self-respect to leave an unfaithful lover and move onward and upward.  It opens with clean, crisp, and refreshing notes that are energetic and inspiring.

Sally Harrison A Walk on the Wildside

It ascends skyward, its green heart uplifting and fortifying.  It accomplishes an airiness and coolness that makes it a wonderfully revitalizing scent perfect for the warmest days of summer. Flight is a green floral scent with notes of marigold accord, white grapefruit, and tomato leaf.  Though feeling very light, it has good longevity and fair sillage as well.

Sally Harrison Fantastic Tangle

Fruition is an olfactive tale  of achievement, and the fruits of labor made sweeter by the overcoming of doubts from one’s self and from others.  Immediately it surrounds you with deliciously ripe fruits amid an orchard in flower.  The fruit is perfectly picked, sweet and juicy, the florals singing of the newness of spring and the bounty of summer.  As the scent reaches its base, the more matured, richer notes emerge.  It leaves you enjoying a glass of red wine and looking over the orchard satisfied with all it provided for you over the year. Fruition is a floral gourmand with notes of ripe plum, geranium, soft wood, and red wine. It has great sillage, especially for the top and heart notes.  The longevity with the rich red wine notes is very good as well.

.Michael Singels, Contributor

Disclosure:  Samples were provided by perfumer as part of the FRAGments 2015 FRAG bag.

Maelstrom Sally Harrison

Art Direction: I chose the art of Sally Harrison, an aborginal Australian artist, who overcame tremendous obstacles, she was a "stolen child" raised by missionaries and taken from her mother at a young age.  Painting was a way to connect back to her Aboriganal ancestors. Her art is very original, motivational, and her paintings tell her life story in dot brushstrokes, just as if they were words. -MC

Thanks to the generosity of Jeanette, we have five sample sets of the Wax Poetic perfumes available for a draw for five of our US registered readers.  (The line officially launches mid-August of 2015.  You can visit the Wax Poetic website now to sign up for release information and stay up to date on new releases) Please leave a comment with which of the Wax Poetic perfumes excites you the most and why.  Draw closes 8  / 5 /15.

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