I grieve and dare not show my discontent,
I love and yet am forced to seem to hate,
I do, yet dare not say I ever meant,
I seem stark mute but inwardly do prate.
I am and not, I freeze and yet am burned,
Since from myself another self I turned.
My care is like my shadow in the sun,
Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it,
Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done.
His too familiar care doth make me rue it.
No means I find to rid him from my breast,
Till by the end of things it be supprest.
Some gentler passion slide into my mind,
For I am soft and made of melting snow;
Or be more cruel, love, and so be kind.
Let me or float or sink, be high or low.
Or let me live with some more sweet content,
Or die and so forget what love ere meant.
Inspired by the tragic, ill-fated love of Queen Elizabeth I and the Earl of Leicester. This is our modernization of a 17th-century perfume blend favored by British aristocracy: rosemary, orange flower, grape spirit, five rose variants, lemon peel, and mint.
anna.macniven –
This perfume makes me feel like a glamorous and dangerous snow queen. The first few minutes of wearing it smelled a little harsh and acidic, but it quickly mellows. Within a few minutes it blends into a smell like sweetened pine and notes of lush red apple, with a glittering edge of snow. I wore it all winter.
Gloame –
I wouldn’t have thought I would like this if I’d been buying from the Lab’s website, but I got to sniff it at a Lunacy event and omg. Bought it immediately. Lemon often goes Pledge on me, so I tend to avoid it, and I have loads of pine already (which tends to amp). I expected this to smell like cold Pledge on a pine table. It doesn’t. The lemon is a sugared lemon, maybe from the apple. Apple’s another hit-or-miss for me, but it’s a hit here — probably because I can barely smell it. And over all that is the snow note. Beautiful. When I bought this, I thought I might be able to give up my Snow White bottle because I thought I’d have enough snow notes. But I need both.
Where I’d wear this: New Years Eve, Seattle