Notes: Yellow tangerine, ginger, pumpkin, immortelle flower, Moroccan Neroli, Grasse rose, vetyver, heliotrope, musks 'I have never been a one for scents in bottles. The great Sufi poet Rumi wrote: If anyone wants to know what 'spirit' is, or what ' God's fragrance' means, lean your head toward him or her. Keep your face there close. Like this. This is possibly my favourite poem of all time. It restores me like the smoke/rain/gingerbread/greenhouse my scent-sense is fed by. It is a poem about simplicity, about human-scaled miracles. About trust. About home. In my fantasy there is a lost chapter of Alice in Wonderland
- after the drink saying Drink Me, after the cake pleading Eat Me
- where the adventuring, alien, Alice, way down the rabbit hole, far from the familiar & may be somewhat homesick
- comes upon a modest glass with a ginger stem reaching down into a pale golden scent that humbly suggests: Like This.' Tilda Swinton