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.
serenanicolefessenden –
I don’t know what it is, but I was wondering why this scent combined with my clean laundry brought me back to Germany as a child. The connection was made when my friend told me it reminded her of a grandma – my oma! Not to say she’s not a formidable woman or that this isn’t a formidable scent, but it seems not quite what the word lurid brings to mind. Definitely a clean but not too clean soft scent that also has a bit of hidden strength behind it. While scents do change with batches and with age, needless to say I love it and will be purchasing a full bottle of it in the immediate future.
littlejackal –
Sweet, spicy, and almost kind of…. salty? It reminds me of fruit that’s been sitting in the sun mixed with warm spices. The ozone and lavender lighten up the scent so that it’s not overwhelmingly heady. Not really my style, but certainly an interesting fragrance.
Lauren –
I’m not even sure where to start with that description, so I’ll just say it’s a nice fruity musk. The currants are the topmost note and what dominates in the beginning, but the musk is really what stays behind.
It’s actually a really clean scent (probably the lavender), which I think a lot of people would like. Unfortunately the ozone lasts the whole way through, and that note just never plays out quite right on me, personally.
lookingglass –
From Dracula by Bram Stoker(1897):
“But the Count! Never did I imagine such wrath and fury, even in the demons of the pit. His eyes were positively blazing. The red light in them was lurid, as if the flames of hell-fire blazed behind them. His face was deathly pale, and the lines of it were hard like drawn wires; the thick eyebrows that met over the nose now seemed like a heaving bar of white-hot metal. With a fierce sweep of his arm, he hurled the woman from him, and then motioned to the others…” (pg. 36).
The hell-fire of currents and smoke, the white-hot combination of musk and ozone…the fierce power and sexual magnitude…this is the perfect scent description. Thank you, Beth. I think you did your homework!
janel –
Right out of the imp I was indeed shocked, almost horrified, but not quite in a good way, it put me off at first and I actually was reluctant to apply it and actually try it on, it just smells very very strong and fierce right fresh, as soon as I actually gave it a go and rubbed in on my wrists really well the fierce dulled down a LOT! And it morphed into this absolutely heady wonderful clean lavender with just the right amount of musk, I fell so head over heels in love with it i only tried it today and already half the imp is gone, ive been re applying it all day haha! Ill be definitely buying a full size, this reminds me of a lazy but sensual warm summer night somehow.