Etruscan Sculpture, Ancient History Encyclopedia.
“The things they did, in their easy centuries, are as natural and as easy as breathing. They leave the breast breathing freely and pleasantly, with a certain fullness of life.” D H Lawrence, Etruscan Places, 1932
Francesca Bianchi
In all her undertakings, there is a primal intensity concurrent with the work of Francesca Bianchi, the multi talented artisan perfuner from Italy. Francesca Bianchi Etruscan Water which will be released early May 2019, (as part of the new line ‘Freefall’ collection) is no exception. How often have you wandered in a place of calling, carrying an irrepressible urge that defies logic? The whisperings from afar of certain topography, comprised of all unseen and observed elements. Akin to Francesca, Etruscan culture has held in me an almost irrational fascination, remnants of a civilization unique that preceded Rome and yet laid immense foundations. Certain evocative places linger with vestiges, a trail of effleurage over the soft folds of the landscape. ‘Genius Loci” is contacted, the Spirit of place, in osmosis, permeates the blood, the tissue and fabric of our being.
Dynamic Stillness, Christian Martin Weiss
In its ancient Roman origin, the concept of the genius loci originally referred to the spirit or deity that inhabited a place; later this genius was taken to refer figuratively to the associations or inspirations derived from a place. Francesca’s presence in this region is her inheritance, prevalent in the potent whispers of this new perfume. It traverses cypress clad hills and forested pathways, down to the sea, unravelling a history strewn journey. Francesca Bianchi Etruscan Water gathers you in swathes of green, Mediterranean airs, an exhalation of content, where all is a progression, perfume unfolding as the trek within contours unfolds. Scents evocative of forest and bright citrus, Bergamot, Green Tangerine, Grapefruit a veritable entree, interspersed with herbal lays of Basil and Caraway, which rise as crushed underfoot in the cooler shade. Where each footstep resounds through History, bridging the firmament of time in each breath or footstep. time ceases to exist, and all is bathed in clear light of sensory delving. I long to divest myself of cumbersome garments yet they too are a component, linen and cotton loose folds over delicately perfumed skin, Immortelle, Jasmin and Iris Root, white and creamy under a perfection of sky.
Mediterranean, Danu Seith-Fyr 2012©
All through is the faint, onshore scent of the sea, urging the heated body onward, a siren call, the culmination is the drenched embrace of the exudate of hot skin, in droplets subsumed by sea, cool and iridescent, emerging from the sea, dripping and refreshed yet still in yearning for a heated palm to leave imprints on inner flesh. Deeper chords of ambergris, labdanum and oakmoss are struck in a rooted ancestral continuity. Francesca Bianchi Etruscan Water is a perfection of calm eroticism and abiding contentment, in the arriving of a place you have always belonged to, no words necessary just inhalation, still and fragile these moments rarely captured.
Notes: Bergamot, Green Tangerine, Grapefruit, Petit Grain, Basil, Caraway, Immortelle, Jasmin, Iris Root, Musk, Ambergris, Labdanum, Vetiver, Oakmoss.
Danu Seith-Fyr, Senior Contributor
Warmest thanks to Francesca Bianchi for my sample, Nose my own.
Francesca Bianchi Etruscan Water ad poster and bottle collage via Instagram
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