Meluzyna

Who was Melusina?

For some, she is a character from ancient legends: a sorceress whose body from the waist down was the tail of a snake or dragon. For me, raised in Poland, she is the heroine of a song about unhappy and broken love from the cult children's film “The Travels of Mr. Kleks.”

When I first heard Melusina's song, I was literally a few years old. I loved it: I would often stand in front of the mirror and sing it at full volume into a deodorant that pretended to be a microphone. Although I did not fully understand its true meaning, I felt incredible emotions and “hairs on end” all over my body.

Years later, I imagine Melusina as a mermaid who comes out of her underwater kingdom from time to time. Thanks to magic, he takes on a completely human form for a few hours and goes ashore. I probably do it during the full moon.

What drives her? The aromas of fir, cardamom, nutmeg and pepper so inaccessible in the depths? He might have met them by witnessing the crash of a merchant ship that lost its cargo in a storm.

But the smell is too little to expose oneself to danger or ridicule. Unless… it is inextricably linked to a strong feeling…

(…) Love, dear ones,
He is insensitive to wisdom.
And for a moment together,
forget the ridiculous.

Melusina has loved someone so much that she is not afraid of death or rejection. It is him he tries to find during his clandestine trips to the continent. That is why the aromas of the sea and the land are combined in this fragrance. They remind him of that one moment of intimacy shared with someone he should never have loved.

Melusina -her character and this fragrance- symbolizes for me a love stronger than fear itself.

Grades

Fir, Marine Notes, Seaweed, Pepper, Nutmeg, Cardamom, Sage, Incense, Smoke, Leather, Earthy Notes, Cumin, Myrrh, Benzoin, Ambergris

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