Viens sur mon coeur, âme cruelle et sourde,
Tigre adoré, monstre aux airs indolents;
Je veux longtemps plonger mes doigts tremblants
Dans l’épaisseur de ta crinière lourde;
Dans tes jupons remplis de ton parfum
Ensevelir ma tête endolorie,
Et respirer, comme une fleur flétrie,
Le doux relent de mon amour défunt.
Je veux dormir! dormir plutôt que vivre!
Dans un sommeil aussi doux que la mort,
J’étalerai mes baisers sans remords
Sur ton beau corps poli comme le cuivre.
Pour engloutir mes sanglots apaisés
Rien ne me vaut l’abîme de ta couche;
L’oubli puissant habite sur ta bouche,
Et le Léthé coule dans tes baisers.
À mon destin, désormais mon délice,
J’obéirai comme un prédestiné;
Martyr docile, innocent condamné,
Dont la ferveur attise le supplice,
Je sucerai, pour noyer ma rancoeur,
Le népenthès et la bonne ciguë
Aux bouts charmants de cette gorge aiguë
Qui n’a jamais emprisonné de coeur.
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Come, lie upon my breast, cruel, insensitive soul,
Adored tigress, monster with the indolent air;
I want to plunge trembling fingers for a long time
In the thickness of your heavy mane,
To bury my head, full of pain
In your skirts redolent of your perfume,
To inhale, as from a withered flower,
The moldy sweetness of my defunct love.
I wish to sleep! to sleep rather than live!
In a slumber doubtful as death,
I shall remorselessly cover with my kisses
Your lovely body polished like copper.
To bury my subdued sobbing
Nothing equals the abyss of your bed,
Potent oblivion dwells upon your lips
And Lethe flows in your kisses.
My fate, hereafter my delight,
I’ll obey like one predestined;
Docile martyr, innocent man condemned,
Whose fervor aggravates the punishment.
I shall suck, to drown my rancor,
Nepenthe and the good hemlock
From the charming tips of those pointed breasts
That have never guarded a heart.
Red musk and sweat-damp golden skin musk with labdanum, golden amber, nutmeg, tobacco absolute, black orchid, and hemlock accord.
rhotic –
Dusty sweet golden warmth grounded in the undercurrents of smoke and cognac. Feels like late afternoon sunlight on skin in the high desert. Simultaneously airy+sharp, sweet+deep. This is a really lovely and unique unisex scent that has stayed a consistent favorite for me.
My skin chemistry is really mellow with booze notes and turns smoke into sweet woodsmoke, so YMMV.
npedone369 –
I was terribly excited about getting this as I own the comics and they’re wonderful.
When I first opened this I was hit with the spiciness of the pepper, and then with a muskiness that is reminiscent of woodsmoke on clothing. When I put it on it changed and the pepper became almost cinnamon in smell and had a sweetness to it. Probably the tobacco flower? Its a unique scent that is surprisingly sweet on me at first almost reminds me of Christmas, but then as it dries it becomes smokey and a smoother scent. Like something you’d smell at an old western saloon on a lady. I love it now thank I thought I would.
SerenityPaintedDeath –
Fresh out of the bottle, the smell on my skin reminds me of a forest fire: Dry wood and smoke. Not the greasy, bacon-y kind of smoke, but sharp, spicy and ashy. It’s not a feminine scent, very unusual for a perfume in general, but I absolutely love it.
It mellows down after a short while and becomes earthier, but still very woodsy, too. It is one of my favourite perfumes at the moment, but I think it might not be for everyone.