Soivohle' (formerly Liz Zorn) has launched 4 new fragrances. Ginger Mead and Moroccan Orange join the Mixed Media collection; Remarkably Incendiary and Purple Love Smoke join the Signature Natural collection.
Ginger Mead ~ "Mead is an old Germanic drink, otherwise called honey wine. This perfume expands on that concept adding a note of warm ginger spice and coconut to the honey with mellow white wine undertones."
Moroccan Orange ~ "An orange blossom scent that opens with an agrestic mix of wet hay musk and an herbal orange essence. Mellowing to a full soft orange flower. Built around a fine Orange Flower Absolute from Morocco."
Remarkably Incendiary: Echo the Crashing Chandelier ~ "An homage to Champaca, it's exotic nature and warm earthly appeal. Paired with agrestic top notes and grounded by Orange flower, leather and woods."
Purple Love Smoke ~ "Violet leaf, Violets and earth. In creating this scent, the objective was to pattern a natural violet, and at the same time capture the scentual essence of the color purple. The darkness, the depth and the floral beauty."
The fragrances are available in 4.5 ml Parfum; samples are also sold. (via newsletter from Soivohle')
Ginger Mead and Purple Love Smoke… they both sound so appealing to me! 4.5 ml PARFUM, sounds great! Just wondering about the price…
They do sound nice! I think they're $60 for the 4.5 ml…expensive, but not so high as places like Aftelier.
From my experience parfums are just great. If You really have a pure parfum, a little bottle lasts longer than a large 3.4oz of EdT or EdP, at least in my case. A tiny drop can do wonders.
Ok, being Norwegian I must set the record straight. Mead is an old Norse drink, drunk by the vikings and if you believe in such things, the old norse gods, such as Thor. Germanic my butt!!
I am not trying to argue, but I just looked up the wikipedia, which is usually a very accurate source of informtation, and according to them: “Mead was the historical beverage par excellence and commonly brewed by the Germanic tribes in Northern Europe”. I am Polish, born in Poland. It is called “Miod Pitny” and I know it is also one of our traditional baverages. This is also by wikipedia: “Mead was also popular in Central Europe and in the Baltic states. In Polish, mead is called miód pitny (IPA: [mjut pitnɨ]), meaning “drinkable honey”. In Russia, mead remained popular as medovukha and sbiten long after its decline in popularity in the West”.
I have family in Germany and as much as I'm trying not to argue, from what I've always known it originated among Germanic tribes. I guess Germanic people must have travelled to N. Europe and brewed there during cold winter months? Mead as well as “hot wine” in Polish, were always drank during cold, winter months and the purpose of having those was to warm You up a little with a tasty bevarage.
Also just to add, as far as I know one of the best kinds of honey in the world, comes from Germany, then a few other countries including Poland, and it's black forest honey. Whether it's really the best in the world or not, it is a fact that those countries have some REALLY good honey, the one you just can't go buy in the store. To me it makes sense that it originated among people that came from a place with the best, purest honey, and was drank by them in the colder parts of Europe. I am sure it tasted good!
I could probably use some mead right now, but otherwise I know nothing about it so will stay out of the dispute. Thanks for the background though!
Hey, being both German and Norwegian, I don't really care… all I know is that I have a tasty bottle of Chaucer's waiting for me at home.
I think all four sound nice.
Also really like the bottles. The cap makes me think of a hematite worry stone…smooth, heavy, round and simple.
I have a sample of Purple Love Smoke, and it is just what you might expect from the title. The liquid is ambery and viscous, what Liz describes as “earth” also has a hint of smoke. I'd take it in a slightly different direction, though, and suggest a chygere? foupre? (hovers between chypre and fougere) element along with those garden violets.
She's also got a Violets & Rainwater, which is a transparent, light, spring-time violet.
I like them both…differently, of course…
Ha ha, I love “chygere” and “foupre”!
I tnink these all sound interesting, especially the champaca and violet ones. But what is an “agrestic top note”???
Don't they look a little like salt and pepper shakers to anyone else but me?
Yes, what is it? and I also am still so green as to not know what chygere and foupre are??? Violets and rainwater sound just like me.
Joy, Becca
Boojum, hey, that's the spirit!
Yes!
See Scentself's explanation above, she made those terms up
Haunani, I had to google “agrestic” — it means rustic/rural, of the countryside.
I'm still stuck on “wet hay musk.” Ahhhh-CHOO! But she does make some lovely scents, so this might be very interesting, in an agrestic sort of way–hee-hee.
FYI – her website is having a sale on the pending Studio line – “We are changing the launch date on this collection to after the first of the year. So we are offering all of the current promo stock at half off.” The stock is limited: ATLAS CEDAR, FRANKINCENSE, GENUS ORCHIDACEAE, GREEN OAKMOSS, LAVENDULA ABSOLUTE, and VIOLETS AND RAINWATER. The link is:
http://www.soivohle.com/store.studio.html – enjoy!
I thought “Purple Love Smoke” sounded ridiculous until I read the description and now I very much want a sample. Sounds really great (dangit I still need to try CBIHP Violet Empire as well). Nothing like earthy violet with a good dose of green violet leaf.
LOL!
The CBIHP one is nice. They had another violet I think I liked better though. Now I can't remember, and too lazy to go look it up!
I'm sure you mean Wild Pansy, which I've been intending to buy a bottle of for over a year now.
I ordered a few samples from Soivohle, so we'll see how they are.
I don't know, bourbon would sure do the trick! :~)
I was confused though…checked my notes and Violet Empire was the one I liked best!