+ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE
Perfume oil blends. Presented in an amber apothecary glass vial. Because of the nature of this project, imps are unavailable.
350 bottles were created for each scent, and when they’re gone, they’re gone.
Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab is thrilled to present a series of scents based on Jim Jarmusch’s critically acclaimed film and soundtrack, ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE.
ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE tells the tale of two fragile and sensitive vampires, Adam (Tom Hiddleston) and Eve (Tilda Swinton), who have been lovers for centuries. Both are cultured intellectuals with an all-embracing passion for music, literature and science, who have evolved to a level where they no longer kill for sustenance, but still retain their innate wildness.
Adam, a reclusive underground musician hiding out in the ruins of contemporary Detroit, despairs about human civilization’s decline, and worries about future survival.Eve, who is perhaps 3000 years old to Adam’s 500, takes a longer view of history and is more optimistic. She leaves her home in the ancient city of Tangier to come to his side.
As blood has been tainted by the zombies (humans), the formerly immortal Adam and Eve must secure uncontaminated blood from hospitals or they will perish. Eve’s close friend, Elizabethan dramatist and unacknowledged author of Shakespeare’s plays—Christopher Marlowe (John Hurt), is now an elder vampire who provides Eve with hospital blood. Adam gets his supply from Dr. Watson (Jeffrey Wright), a skittish hematologist who provides safe blood at a price.
Adam and Eve’s precarious footing is further threatened by the uninvited arrival of Eve’s carefree and uncontrollable little sister Ava (Mia Wasikowska). Unlike Adam and Eve, Ava hasn’t yet learned to tame her wilder instincts, and her recklessness concerns Adam.
Driven by sensual photography, trance-like music, and droll humor, Jim Jarmusch’s ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE is a meditation on art, science, memory, and the mysteries of everlasting love.
Jim Jarmusch has long been considered a seminal figure in American independent cinema. His films are often noted for their transcendent minimalism and upturning of traditional genres such as the road movie, western, crime-film, and detective story. Born in Akron, Ohio, Jarmusch lives and works in New York.
Sara –
My favorite on this collection. Very interesting scent 🙂
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Funnel of Love is a masterpiece of complexity. It is exotic, mysterious, and darkly sweet. This wonderful scent reminds me of forbidden pleasures and distant places. It is my very favorite. Like Adam and Eve, I hope it lasts forever. I never want to run out.
Velvet Lilly –
This is a scent that’s elusive even in it’s brazen-ness. Because it’s ephemeral…..it changes as you smell it. It’s SO fascinating! I can put my nose in this bottle 5 times, and each time, I get something a bit different at the surface.
And it’s All Good. It beckons you in to keep trying it…..down….down that funnel…..there are different, groovy, sexy, janky, rolling places that it goes. It plays with my nose, but it’s sincere in it’s hippy awesomeness. She won’t steer you wrong.
Forest –
Funnel of Love, in the bottle is a dimly-lit speakeasy in a strange city and a strong hit of whatever the bartender gave you. The kind of darkness that makes your eyes open wide, anticipating something sinister but, not altogether unwelcome.
A few minutes on the skin, your eyes adjust to the gloom and linger on the smooth grain of ancient wooden walls. Dust curls around sweet tobacco smoke in a languid, intimate dance.
It dries down to reveal an ancient an sacred space, the walls of what was once a temple carved in teak and sandalwood.