Colours of Autumn: Yellow

09/16/08 14:28:48

Nature has no bad weather.
Each weather is blessed.
We must accept gratefully
Autumn of life, as well as autumn of year.

(Eldar Rjazanov)

Autumn arrived in our town; I have already felt it with all my body when heavy rain caught me far from my house. But, the saying goes that Nature has no bad weather. Blessed rain is just another opportunity to meet your beloved one alone, under one umbrella. Don't forget it!

It keeps raining and raining. Cold, b-r-r. It literally rips you out from reality: it is so nice to found yourself in a small house in such weather, somewhere where you can see trees through your window, where fire is burning and you feel tiny scent of smoke, where there is fresh tea and honey. I can find this cosy atmosphere in Miel de Bois (Forest Honey), an unusual perfume by Serge Lutens.

Miel de Bois is a very positive fragrance for me. This is neither the scent of town nor the scent of wilderness, but the golden middle in between the two worlds: life in correspondence with nature. The perfume is not reigned by idle daydreaming, but by good work atmosphere: fresh wood smell, a man has just made something from it, held it in his hands, scraped it, fondled it to see if it is smooth enough...

White honey flows over white wooden heart of freshly cut wood, as airy resin, and I can again smell the sweet result of hard work by wild bees or by human, it does not matter. Honey and wood take turns to appear and disappear in this composition, it seems it has only honey and wood. Honey is limpid and natural-only fresh honey can smell that way. Dry wood crackles, it is warm and also very realistic, and sometimes I can even feel a piercing resin-like accord which reminds me of turpentine.

No matter if the nice name of the perfume suggests wild honey, this fragrance smells like creation in its aboriginal sense for me – created by bare hands, which is why it smells in the best and the most natural way on the hands.

Photo credit: YugQ

Author: Jeca (jeca)
Fragrantica Member