Colours
with bitter orange, jasmine sambac, hinoki, wild vetiver, violet leaf and tonka bean.
use for writing the song, finding company and Moon-Jupiter inspiration.
“There’s a little bit of magic / everybody has it / there’s a little bit of sand / left in the hourglass” - Jenny Lewis
Colours is a pretty tune, hummed by a troubadour, looking out at an unfamiliar vista with the ease of a hometown hero. It’s a portable feeling of the creative lens. It reads the signs and follows them to something unusual but recognizable. Its impact is funky, enlivening and refreshing. It imbues a feeling of easy translation, of being able to sing the song of where you came from in a way that makes everyone feel like they know the words. Its citric floral potency hotwires the creative, playful, libidinous brain beyond language and logic, through names and numbers, through story and into song.
One of the star ingredients is an old-school, perfume-grade, solvent-extracted absolute of ‘sambac’ jasmine (the wilder, warmer, sexier cousin of the stuff that goes in your tea). Jasmine is a euphoriant of the highest order - smashing through apathy and stagnation, erupting past negativity into a playful libidinal urge. The hypnotic citrus sparkle fades into a mist of sparkling green violet leaf and pricklysweet, mildly hallucinogenic nutmeg (google it!). At the base, a super-rare absolute of porcini mushroom is blended with the honeyed, comforting couch of buddhawood, casting a warm, resinous glow over the skin like a translucent layer of candlelight.
You know the feeling when that song comes on and everyone starts mouthing the words? You can, in fact, take it with you.
“In some ways, a Moon-Jupiter conjunction is a mark of The Troubadour. It’s present in the charts of Jenny Lewis, Bob Dylan, Jim Jarmusch and Kesha, to name a few. As Jenny Lewis sings in Acid Tongue, this conjunction can feel like the act of ‘looking for company’ with ‘adventure on my sleeve’. It’s the hometown lingo that unites the employees at your neighbourhood Starbucks in a shared, unique posture. It’s singing of your particular belonging while voyaging into the unknown. Colours helps bring that feeling with you; when the song comes on at the bar and everybody knows the words, or when you finally feel like you’ve found the words to a song of your own. It helps you embrace your specifics to creatively tap into the universal. Aren’t the best visions grown from home? ”
ingredients: alcohol, 100% natural whole plant extracts, nothing else*
*contains zero synthetic aromas, naturally-derived chemical extracts, animal products, animal-tested products, or additional preservatives.
naturally-occurring psychoactive compounds: limonene, pinene, myristicin
80% vol.
this perfume is made by hand in Tiohti:áke/Montréal. it is hand blended in small batches and bottled unfiltered, which can result in occasional harmless sedimentary deposits in the perfume. as an agricultural product, this fragrance may vary slightly from batch to batch.
the natural ingredients in this fragrance are powerful, and have the potential to cause irritation and sensitivity. due to the presence of natural citrus oils, this product is considered phototoxic, which means it can increase the sensitivity of your skin to sun damage. please perform a patch test before using, discontinue if you experience any adverse affects, and use appropriate sun protection when wearing. do not apply more than twice a day.
this fragrance contains the following potential allergens, which occur naturally in our botanical raw materials: benzyl alcohol, benzyl benzoate, citral, eugenol, farnesol, geraniol, isoeugenol, limonene, linalool.