A Bouquet Half-Remembered - Fennel, Cassia, Bergamot, Gardenia, Carnation, Ylang-Ylang, Jasmine, Violet, Coumarin, Oakmoss, Labdanum, Cypriol, Patchouli

Vibe: You've found a vintage chypre at an estate sale. Decades of aging have transformed the perfume - the floral notes are indistinguishable, having melded together into a sweet, powdery, spicy potpourri. The resins have become deeper and more balsamic, and the spiced notes are more intense. Decades ago, the perfume had a bright citrus top, but that's now mellowed to a vague, round-edged hint of bergamot peel.

I love going to antique malls and hunting for old bottles of perfume. Packaged in ornate glass bottles and filled with amber-colored juice, they're a joy to look at..but even more of a joy to smell. A Bouquet Half-Remembered was my attempt at capturing the smell of a well-aged bottle of perfume (without the need to wait decades), while meeting modern IFRA guidelines.

How a Bouquet Half-Remembered unfolds: A spicy opening that's cinnamic from the cassia and anisic from the fennel seed. Then comes a two-part floral heart - at first spiced and heady from the carnation, jasmine, and ylang, but later mellowing into something more powdery from the violet accord. Finally, it fades into a warm, resinous, balsamic base.

Please note: I don't recommend this fragrance if you have a cinnamon allergy, as Cassia is related to cinnamon and has high cinnamic aldehyde (cinnamal) content. I've stayed within the IFRA's cinnamal limit of 0.25%.

The cyanotype for the label art was done by the wonderful Erin, @erinnonfilm

Ingredients: Carrier (Fractionated Coconut Oil for oil, Ethanol for EDP), Fragrance, Dipropylene Glycol, Alpha Terpineol, Anisaldehyde, Anisyl Alcohol, Benzyl Acetate, Benzyl Alcohol, Benzyl Benzoate, Benzyl Cinnamate, Benzyl Salicylate, Bergamot BF EO, Bergamot Givco, Cassia EO, Cinnamal, Cinnamic Alcohol, Citral, Citronellol, Coumarin, Cyclamen Aldehyde, Cypriol EO, Ethyl Cinnamate, Ethyl Vanillin, Ethylene Brassylate, Eugenol, Farnesol, Galaxolide, Geraniol, Hedione, Heliotropex N, Indole, ISO E Super, ISO Eugenol Replacer, Isoeugenol, Jasmine Grandiflorum Absolute, Labdanum Absolute, Limonene, Linalool, Linalyl Acetate, Magnolan, Methyl Anthranilate, Methyl Diantilis, Methyl Gamma Ionone, Musk Ketone, Patchouli EO, Phenyl Ethyl Alcohol, Styrallyl Acetate, Sweet Fennel EO, Sweet Orange EO, Tolu Balsam Resinoid, Treemoss Extract, Veramoss, Ylang Ylang Complete