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Southern Magnolia Attar 2021 : Shibui Series
Southern Magnolia Attar 2021 : Shibui Series
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I was born outside of NYC, on the Jersey side, in a town outside of Newark called Milltown, East Brunswick. I was 9 when my family moved down to Atlanta, and with the move came a new climate, and a host of new 'scentsory' experiences. One of my favorites ... the Southern Magnolia. There's nothing quite like it, and if you've never visited the South during Magnolia season ... you simply haven't lived life.
Pretty much all "Magnolia" on the market and available to perfumers is actually Chinese Magnolia, and it does not smell the same. Not by a long shot. I've searched for years before finding a small batch of American Magnolia distilled here in the South, and it's a near perfect representation of sticking your nose in the huge, velvety soft white flowers at the peak of the season.
Southern Magnolia Attar perfectly captures the scent of the Magnolia trees growing on the property of the house I grew up in here in metro Atlanta. It's the scent of my adolesence, and the essence of that famed Southern Hospitality.
This is a limited batch, unless I can find another distillation of American Magnolia - so be sure to grab some while available!
ABOUT SHIBUI SERIES
I had originally made some Attars for some Japanese in-laws.
They were wanting something ... Shibui.
Shibui (渋い) (adjective), shibumi (渋み) (noun), or shibusa (渋さ) (noun) are Japanese words which refer to a particular aesthetic of simple, subtle, and unobtrusive beauty. Like other Japanese aesthetics terms, such as iki and wabi-sabi, shibui can apply to a wide variety of subjects, not just art or fashion.
When they first smelled them, they said simply, “these are stunningly beautiful”.
Friends and family of theirs eventually started asking for them - and I figured it was high time to start offering these here in my shop. Seems folks love them.
These are simple solo-fleur compositions, as opposed to my more complex Attars that I’ve become quite well-known for. These are less expensive and more straight forward single-flower Attar scents.
Simple. Subtle. Unobtrusive beauty.
With that said...they are stunningly beautiful!
Distilled Japanese Yuzu
2019 Southern Magnolia
2020 Phoenix Sandalwood Melange
Pretty much all "Magnolia" on the market and available to perfumers is actually Chinese Magnolia, and it does not smell the same. Not by a long shot. I've searched for years before finding a small batch of American Magnolia distilled here in the South, and it's a near perfect representation of sticking your nose in the huge, velvety soft white flowers at the peak of the season.
Southern Magnolia Attar perfectly captures the scent of the Magnolia trees growing on the property of the house I grew up in here in metro Atlanta. It's the scent of my adolesence, and the essence of that famed Southern Hospitality.
This is a limited batch, unless I can find another distillation of American Magnolia - so be sure to grab some while available!
ABOUT SHIBUI SERIES
I had originally made some Attars for some Japanese in-laws.
They were wanting something ... Shibui.
Shibui (渋い) (adjective), shibumi (渋み) (noun), or shibusa (渋さ) (noun) are Japanese words which refer to a particular aesthetic of simple, subtle, and unobtrusive beauty. Like other Japanese aesthetics terms, such as iki and wabi-sabi, shibui can apply to a wide variety of subjects, not just art or fashion.
When they first smelled them, they said simply, “these are stunningly beautiful”.
Friends and family of theirs eventually started asking for them - and I figured it was high time to start offering these here in my shop. Seems folks love them.
These are simple solo-fleur compositions, as opposed to my more complex Attars that I’ve become quite well-known for. These are less expensive and more straight forward single-flower Attar scents.
Simple. Subtle. Unobtrusive beauty.
With that said...they are stunningly beautiful!
Distilled Japanese Yuzu
2019 Southern Magnolia
2020 Phoenix Sandalwood Melange
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