The Occulded Arcane in Plain Sight Kawa Karda Extrait & Cocoa Kimya Extrait 2024 - Atelier des Ors Jean-Philippe Clermont & Marie Salamagne.
The work of Pierre Soulages - L’abbatiale de Conques, Abstracted view of The Abstraction Collection-Atelier des Ors
So very often we do not see what is written in plain sight, not just in words but via other media, the eternal within the everyday, all it takes is a shifting in sight without use of vision, to hear without sounds and to sense beyond our senses, opening our understanding and allowing imagination free-rein. In The Abstraction Collection from Atelier des Ors, we are proffered an outstretched hand, the invitation to step outside of ourselves and soar.
Do I wander aimlessly in the unlit void, a seemingly endless darkness that envelops or do I traverse my fear and see with another sight, less restrained. Here resides a ‘tension’ a taut moment that holds you suspended between what you know and what you could come to know, all it takes is that realisation that all is not as you think and the loosening of bonds and we are at liberty to travel at will. Residing there, just out of reach lie limitless horizons.
Perfumer Marie Salamagne, Artist Pierre Soulages (1919-2022), Jean-Philipp Clermont and Perfumer Marie Salamagne, Atelier des Ors, The Abstraction Collection.
Divest yourself of all preconceptions, be immune to the usual connatations, like the freediver who extends their limits in the blackened depths, going beyond received breath to find new respirations, revelling without boundaries. In the darkest of components melded with just the right proportion of spices, a vehicle of discovery.
Inspired by the work of french artist Pierre Soulages (1919-2022), his work in black revealing an abstraction and refraction, something reaches out in the coming together of fragmented shadows and bright shards illiminating a light beyond the dark. The adage’ Having eyes in the back of your head’, something enlivens here beyond sight, between syllabules, outside the known periphery, just because we cannot see what is always behind us, is simply that, we cannot see it, yet it exists.
In the purest of materails exist myriad unknown facets, waiting….
Labyrinth, Pinterest, Pierre Soulages.
Kawa Karda - Atelier des Ors, Light in the Darkness - Pinterest, Nadir Syzygy - Unsplash
Kawa Karda Extrait (40%) - startling in its revery, enveloping in its luxurious swathes, the immediate sense of smell turned on its head, a scent that tastes, it merely the catalyst, something of worth lies just out of reach, fall into its swirling concoction of bitter coffee and cardamon split open in abandon. Give me a new vision, redefine my senses, I become as embers flitting in a pristine winters sky, you are all that haunts me in the shafts of light in a black forest, the rivulets that course on the frosted panes, you are the arcane wisdom I glimpse in the rapid turning of the pages of time, set on their course and eternally in motion. I, the bystander, part of all this for an eternity in a nanosecond. Flickering light and shadow striations beckon me inbetween the pleats of ages. In its purity devoid of fault lies the laughter of the child, the sigh of the beloved, I pass as easily as a sylph rising on agitated airs, here the impossible is nonexistant.
Darkly wrought swathes of crema lift the dark folds. I rise upon their swirling grace, rich and embracing, it roils forth, carrying me, as ways part below, a labyrinth of streets, clamour and colour, the scent of its spiced coffee coiling in spirals of vibrant life, its thrum undulating, rhythm in all its frenetic pulsing. In this aroma, lies it all, hidden behind its components is all the beauty of life, waken to it, be ignited in its carcophony. Kawa Karda is the illumination, the brightest prism held in the night, sending shards of all it contains in every direction.
Crafted with absolute perfection and refinement, Kawa Karda is a luxurious clair- obscure brewed with an arcane opulence
Cocoa Kimiya - Atelier des Ors, Artistry of Pierre Soulages - L’abbatiale de Conques, Pierre Soulages.
Cocoa Kimiya, (Alchemy) a canticle, a sonorous savagery of ancestral chants, a textural blackness tamed with sacred overtones. richly wrought yet tinged with shafts of brilliance, captured light given rein, teased outwards in tendrils of luminescence from the darkest palette. A scrying glass of liquid obsidian, look long enough and sight shifts, peripheral is focused and the world turns in on itself. Look long enough into the abyss between mortal and immortal states and the edges blur. Cocoa Kimiya is the way through shadowy edges, the crossing of the horizon line as darkness dips into day and light into night.
A quiet breathing of time reaches my senses, here is ancientness, beyond the measure of man and time. residing here where the light reaches into the belly of the night, clasping the sacred in its bright lit sanctuary. Cocoa is the ‘divine in matter, the ‘food of the Gods’ here is the scent of hidden knowledge, of dust laden tomes inscribed with words to unravel your bounded spirit, soaring liberty alights from its incantations. Cocoa Kimiya is a midas touch upon your pale , fragile human flesh, sundering you open in veins of Kintsugi beauty.
Words intone off faded pages, that have felt the passage of fingering souls, each one infusing the volumes with a life in a touch. Envelopment of cocoa and cardamon elevates on uttering chants, here is the way beyond yourself, an expansion of what you thought you were, always infused with the undercurrent of a sacrosanct intonation, holding the force. Bridging a way beyond the bitterness and sumptuous viscous folds to the kalediescope, the nuances of all the darkness contains in its occulded state.
A note held by a Maestro, pure and clear, neverending and constant in its timbre, yet within its structure, the rippling undulations of its composition reverberate into a myriad particles, the unadulterated strand holding all in its quivering.
Revealing -Pinterest, Cocoa Kimiya & Kawa Karda - Atelier des Ors
In these extremely well composed perfumes, wrought with the majesty of noble components, here is extended an age old palm, the opportunity to traverse without limits the capacity to rise outwards in all directions beyond our confines, the returning of perfume as catalyst, igniting our physical bound selves. Elegant with a luxurious flourish. Obscure esoterism kindled, not to perfume, not to scent but to access imagination, break down the word and it reveals the ‘Nation of I Magi’. Imagination is the birthplace of creativity, in creating we enter the realm of our Immortality. In the realms of Abstraction and with imagination at liberty we are Kings, we are sorcerers, we are eternal.
Not seen, not seeing is not the same as the Unseen.
Kawa Karda can be found here - Kawa Karda Extrait - Atelier Des Ors
Cacao Kimiya can be found here - Cocoa Kimiya Extrait - Atelier Des Ors
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