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Scents of Time Maya ~ new perfume

Posted by Robin on 8 November 2008 9 Comments

Scents of Time Maya fragrance

Scents of Time has launched Maya, the fourth in their series of historically-based fragrances:

Maya - The mystical scent of the Americas.

A soft oriental fragrance for her, Maya was recreated using books and surviving Pagan texts.

With head notes of copal incense and fresh nuances, heart notes of jasmine, green foliage, and tropical flowers and base notes of chocolate and vanilla.

Maya was developed by perfumer Jorge Lee.

Scents of Time Maya is available in 50 ml Eau de Parfum for £45, and includes a "booklet detailing how the scent was lost, found and then re-created". It can be purchased at John Lewis in the UK. (via johnlewis, additional information via firebox, found via independent.co.uk)

Filed Under: new fragrances
Tagged With: scents of time

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  1. Anonymous says:
    8 November 2008 at 10:51 am

    Hey, the first half of notes reads like your dream fragrance, doesn't it, R?

    The second, not so much, eh! :)

    Sounds very interesting though…

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  2. Anonymous says:
    8 November 2008 at 10:58 am

    Can you say copal incense in a family-friendly blog?

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  3. Anonymous says:
    8 November 2008 at 11:53 am

    Except for the “fresh nuances”, which are worrisome, yes! Could be interesting, I'd like to try it. And the bottle is gorgeous.

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  4. Anonymous says:
    8 November 2008 at 11:54 am

    Yes!

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  5. Anonymous says:
    8 November 2008 at 4:47 pm

    I was intrigued, too, until I got to “chocolate and vanilla.” It is a lovely bottle.

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  6. Anonymous says:
    9 November 2008 at 11:01 am

    If they kept it very dry — like “real” mexican chocolate — might still be nice.

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  7. Anonymous says:
    9 November 2008 at 11:14 am

    I would like to try this, but how do i get a sample in the us?

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  8. Anonymous says:
    9 November 2008 at 5:57 pm

    No idea. Maybe you can email them from their website?

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  9. Anonymous says:
    10 November 2008 at 11:01 am

    Hello all, I should introduce myself as the creator of Scents of Time – I am writing in to answer some of your queries.

    ORIENTALS

    It's undertsandable that not all like the combination of vanilla and chocolate in the Soft Oriental fragrance MAYA but they were considered key ingredients in a fragrance whose genesis was Mexico as both aromatic ingredients came from there (in fact chocolate is an Aztec word which found its way into the English language via the Spanish Conquistadores. We are trying to exactly recreate the historical aroma experience.

    SAMPLING

    Because the range is new not all are available in sampler form yet except as testers in the retailers selling. However the fragrance families they belong to (and modern fragrances in the same family) are listed on the website To use a music shop analogy if you were into heavy metal I would send you to that section of my shop and not the classical section. Then you could decide if the “music” suited.

    US AVAILABILITY

    It may be that some of the retailers offering the scents (see website) can despatch to US but since 9/11 things have got tougher in terms of air dispatch as all perfumes (not just mine) have considerable amounts of alcohol in them and now carry a UN number- 1266.

    Hope above useful and thanks for your own comments which are valuable to me.

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