Splendid Allure and A Presence of Wilder Sorcery - Scorpio Rising 2022 and Green Spell 2021 ERIS Parfums - Barbara Herman and Antoine Lie
Body Art - Joanne Gair, Eunis, Flames of the Forest, Dark Beauty Magazine - Francis Urrutia
Do you aspire to mediocrity. Or do you shed your skin, ever
sharpening your blade honing it always to perfection. Walking its pristine edge with precision, dexterity and ebullient passion.
Do you chase the mundane or soar with wings of fire..
DsF 17
Everything about Eris Parfums is written in these words of mine, capturing an illusive essence that Barbara Herman along with perfumer Antoine Lie have encapsulated in the entire collection, there is an unmistakeable union of thought, intention, the merging of two seperate paths always meant to come across one another, a fated destination that yields untold blessings. I had also read, a few times, Barbara’s book on Scent and Subversion, a fabulous read indeed. So, in fact I was well primed to receive the Eris collection. Cached within are several that I am drawn to and here to write of only two is a fairly difficult decision I must admit. Drawn as I am to the slightly curious and eccentric, there is within all a wildly sorcerous edge, I know it instantly and it never fails to call to me.. out beyond the components, this is something else entirely and sets ERIS Parfums within a very rare and unique group of creators.
The Tristan Project 2005 - Bill Viola
Scorpio Rising 2022 - Barbara Herman and Antoine Lie
Here is all ‘Presence’ liquified, the word rises in me unrestrained, this is all Presence, Presence, Presence, blooming effusive clouds, an extrait of 25% concerntration, impregnanting a space, the presence that greets you as you enter a room, the presence that is all enveloping and the presence that resides always as lingering traces long after its source has departed. A wake of tendrilled emanations attend their exit, they are no longer in the room and yet incomprehensibly they fill every crevice, every molecule of air vibrates in a recognition.. Its origin, the scorpio incarnate has in fact never left…….. this is Scorpionic!!!!
A coiled potency defying all attempts at description, don’t even try to put into words, who and what we are!! There were, before, it seems feeble attempts to classify those of this ilk yet somehow it only ever scratched at our surface like an irritation. Scorpio Rising is the beheld essence of the edges of who we are, a first to capture us in a vial, dares you to cross a threshold and behold us there in our natural environment, world-walkers and edge defiers, it is immense, enlightening, electric and terrifying all at once. Undeniably a scorpio truth written in this liquid incantation.
Scorpio Rising is an igniting spark for we are nothing but all fire held paradoxically in watery depths. Ignition of a combination of intense spices enliven the senses like a ritual bathing and prepare for the journey ahead, a vertitable whorl of heated peppers, cardamom, clove and cinnamon emerging from behind those smouldering eyes, underworld or not, you will see as you have never seen before.
Ereshkigal - Mark Elzey Junior, 2. Flames of the Forest, 3. Justine Shuih. 4. Barbara Herman and Antoine Lie - Eris 5. Scorpio Jinn.
To enter into this sphere is to dare to venture out beyond the ‘norm’, be as prepared as may be possible for the sense of exhilaration, a bewildering yet compelling mix of anticipation, excitement and trepidation!!! yet so very enamoured by the enticing invitation, to be in proximity. How you yearn to be close to the fires, to venture as close as possible to this source of burning light……even as you may be scorched in the process.
How Scorpio Rising traces its tingling, razor sharp fingertips upon you, ensuring your abeyant gaze and devout attention. All is designed to be in a worshipful estate, however unconscious, this is, have no doubt a potion of considerable power, every aspect of its composition full of latent portent. Here resides the embers lit behind the eyes, a moments notice to flare, the twitching of a scorpionic tail hovering just over a marble etched shoulder, poised to strike, calmly lethal, the complete bewitchment at breathing the same air, inhabiting the same time and space just for a moment, leaving you quickening and gasping as if you have taken your very first breath or your last. Scorpio Rising is the passing wind in an airless room, all candle flares bending in unison, the unseen suspension of presence, a mist swirling in a crowded room, the touch of a million God’s leaving you spent with the benediction imprinted on your flesh of the lovers lips…. it is a triumphant invocation of Scorpionic sorcery. Courage, little ones, enter into hallowed halls……
When Time is spent
and the Weave is complete
those who burn the brightest
leave only a shadow on the eyes
of those who never looked beyond the heat and the brilliance....
DsF 17
Pink Pepper, Black Pepper, Clove Bud, Cinnamon Absolute (all from La Réunion, Madagascar); Indian Cardamom, French Immortelle, Somalian Incense, Indian Cypriol, Atlas Cedarwood, Guaiac Wood, Saffron, Sandalwood, Ambroxan, Cashmeran, Haitian Vetiver, Leather.
1, 2, 3, Eris Parfums 4. Dark Beauty - Francis Uruttia
Bold Creaper - Siciliani Texel
Green Spell - 2021 - Barbara Herman and Antoine Lie
Wander far afield, in the flourescence of verdant green that is the burgeoning of life and perchance twixt day and night at a certain hour, not of your choosing, you may catch a fleeting glimpse of the undescribable beauty of the Fee. Green of hue and fleet of foot, it is a rare blessing to perceive their otherworldly nature…. out beyond the stems and bowers bedecked in a finery of vert, out beyond the leaves and shoots, Green Spell is the very incarnation of nature herself and the scent carried by the Fee as they slip in and out of our periphery.
A enchantment of a ‘Rip Van Winkle’ quality, it lulls and contents us with natures rhapsody. Untold vibrancy at the very first, a burst of unstoppable respiration, the intake of breath rising from the dormancy of Winters little death, resuscitated.
Johannes Stoetter, 2. Unsplash, 3.Johannes Stoetter, 4.Green Mist Edke, 5. Impecta
Its beauty snatches the breath from the maddened eyes of Men, enticed in verdant glances of Pan-like undercurrents, inherent mischief to dance barefoot under sunshafted festooned branches. Whirled by the kaleidoscope of green into a dervish trance. It secrets whisper upon warmed zephyrs, caressing us into ancient rhythms, an extraction wrought of older Pagan God’s at play, stirring in us a pulse older than time, the viridescent sap-rising heartbeat that attunes with our own. The scent of the coiled unfurling, the eternal renewal that has a strength unhampered by mankind, nothing short of an unbreakable promise, a myriad hues of green, nuanced in a wash of watercolour transparency. All is in the harmony of Apollonic salutation towards the sun, overarching all the myriad forms, of strengths and fragilities, the beauty and the force. A scent of the new emergence, of fecund delicacy, ripe and potent and the entwining of roots in earth soft embrace.
Green Spells delicate intensity is beguiling and the welcoming arms of the soul of nature herself ever open for the prodigal return of the errant child, lifted into an exaltation amongst her tendrils and murmuring spiritous nymphs, a deeply felt joy of communion, never truly forgotten.. a spellbinding of an urgent nature, its clarion to return to ourselves. The spell is cast- inhale…….
I met a lady in the meads,
Full beautiful—a faery’s child,
Her hair was long, her foot was light,
And her eyes were wild.
I made a garland for her head,
And bracelets too, and fragrant zone;
She looked at me as she did love,
And made sweet moan
La Belle Dame Sans Merci - John Keats
Moss Elf Bodypainting, 2. Johannes Stroetter, 3. Kirsty Mitchell, 4. Unsplash, 5. Green Spell - Eris Parfums.
Italian Mandarin, French Black Currant Bud absolute (Bourgeons Cassis), Iranian Galbanum (oil and resinoid), Egyptian Violet Leaf absolute, French Narcissus absolute, Tomato leaf accord, Fig leaf accord, Haitian Vetiver, Ambroxan, Musk.
Samples of Scorpio Rising and Green Spell were gifted by Barbara at Eris Parfums, with my thanks, this is unpaid content. Copyright DsF 22.
Other Eris Parfums that caught my attention are - Mx, Mxxx and Night Flower.
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