CB I Hate Perfume M4 A Room With a View is an evocative fragrance inspired by a passage from Christopher Brosius' favourite novel of the same name. Towards the end of Chapter Six, some incredible imagery occurs: ' She did not answer. From her feet the ground sloped sharply into view, & violets ran down in rivulets & streams & cataracts, irrigating the hillside with blue, eddying round the tree stems, collecting into pools in the hollows, covering the grass with spots of azure foam. But never again were they in such profusion; this terrace was the well-head, the primal source whence beauty gushed out to water the earth. Standing at its brink, like a swimmer who prepares, was the good man. But he was not the good man that she had expected, & he was alone. George had turned at the sound of her arrival. For a moment he contemplated her, as one who had fallen out of heaven. He saw radiant joy in her face, he saw the flowers beat against her dress in blue waves. The bushes above them closed. He stepped quickly forward & kissed her.' This beautiful prose delivers the perfect recipe for an equally beautiful fragrance: a deluge of violets, greenery & earth. Christopher Brosius perfectly portrays the wonder of the moment, one where one simple moment can transform an entire life. The scent It is the scent of the hills above Florence
- the vineyards, the wild grass, the finocchio, the hot dusty Florentine earth. & of course, a torrent of violets...