Through parting wisp I reach, no words
In breath consumed I am perfume
Blissful in the intimacy of woman
100 brush strokes each night
of her jet black hair
With the silver brush belonging to her mother
Her personal musk a fruity floral of indolic jasmine sambac
Orange flower and rose petal absolute
Over a base of honeyed woods, black current
And peppery ambergris
Top notes of bois de rose and mastic tantalize
Throwing sparks
In a pheromone trail
As she walks
Her Natural scent
Enhanced by her desire
To be found
Drifting sparks by Lisa Fong for Artemisia Natural perfume was everything I had hoped it would be. The black current and fruity sambac gave the sweet juiciness I was looking for reminiscent of animal musk, the ambergris and cedar gave longevity and the bois de rose a peppery kick. The scent is fruity, cleanly animalic and very personal. It reminded me of a woman’s personal scent, the allure of “musk” without a dirty animal funkiness. I would love to smell this scent on several women to see how their personal chemistry works with it. This is a beautiful complex, well constructed all natural fruity floral scent with good longevity and mild sillage.
Lisa Fong expresses that she set out to “create a reasonable musk scent from natural ingredients”….something that was sultry smoky, sweet, dirty, vegetable, animal, musty and earthy. Lisa’s scent is certainly many of these things. Dirty, no, but my personal scent experience tells me that not all musk is dirty. I will tell you a secret. Because I am English, like Mary Poppins I am obsessed with ladies and female children being well groomed, hair well brushed. I have a dear, dear friend who does not brush her children’s hair to my satisfaction. Whenever I get the chance I brush her daughter’s hair, the 12 year old girl being Cambodian with the most lovely jet black long hair. This young lady rushes for the hairbrush when she sees me and settles into a chair in front of me for her “attention”, her grooming.
One day, while I was brushing her hair…about ½ an hour later her sated being emanated a perfume unlike any I have ever known. There was no other source for this other than her own body. Pleasure hormones can do this and perfumers seek to imagine what this pleasure scent is and to create it using whatever materials they are knowledgeable about be they natural or synthetic. Lisa’s perfume was similar in energy to the pleasure scent wafted by a real girl, so I would say, yes, she accomplished what she set out to do, perhaps more completely than she even knows.
