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Against Nature - Eau de Parfum
£164.00
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For the unconventionally decadent. Inspired by Joris-Karl Huysmans’ 1884 novel of the same name which broke from his naturalist roots, this is a decadent re-interpretation of nature at its most ornate. The sprawling reach of this little known novel can be seen as that poisonous French novel that inspires Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray to depart on a life of decadence. The French poet and philosopher Paul Valéry called it his "bible".
Against Nature is a blur between the natural and the artificial, ultimately echoing an alternate beauty. This gender neutral fragrance features leafy green foliage, moist soil & earthy mosses underscored with notes of cold metal, blood and lacquer.
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- Top
- Pink Pepper, Lemon, Juniper, Green, Metal
- Heart
- Jasmine, Ylang Ylang, Lavender, Lacquer
- Base
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Musk, Vetiver, Amber, Sandalwood, Patchouli
This perfume is set in an organic alcohol base and does not contain any animal by-products. In keeping with the story upon which it is based, this perfume contains synthesised ingredients.
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SMELLING NOTES
The novels theme of decadence and fallaciousness are explored through the perfume, altering perceptions of what is real. Against Nature is a blur between the natural and the artificial, ultimately echoing an alternate beauty.
This gender neutral fragrance evokes the bright green scent of a freshly broken sapling, over which a thin layer of lacquer is overlaid to echo Des Esseintes belief that anything nature can do, man can do better. It is finished with the scent of blood.
The perfume echoes the novels themes, using a mixture of natural and artificially fragrance oils resonating the struggle between imitation and reality.
THE NOVEL
À rebours (French pronunciation:[a ʁ(ə).buʁ]; translated Against Nature or Against the Grain) is an 1884novelby the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans. The narrative centres on a single character: Jean des Esseintes, an eccentric, reclusive, ailing aesthete. The last scion of an aristocratic family, Des Esseintes loathes nineteenth-century bourgeois society and tries to retreat into an ideal artistic world of his own creation. The narrative is almost entirely a catalogue of the neurotic Des Esseintes's aesthetic tastes, musings on literature, painting, and religion, and hyperaesthesic sensory experiences.
The novel was seen as the inspiration for a creative generation from Oscar Wilde whose character Dorian Grey attributes his downfall to the poisonous French novel to Marianne Faithful who famously said she would sleep with anyone who had read the novel.
THE ARTWORK / ANCIENT FEMME
Ancient Femme is a piece by Rafael Theodore Melendez.
THE ARTIST
Rafael Theodore Melendez is an American artist and a rare and out-of-print book collector, born and raised in California’s Central Valley. Melendez is best know for his minimal “anti culture” line drawings of anthropomorphic beings in otherworldly landscapes. His work has been shown in galleries and museums in New York City, San Francisco, London and a host of other metropolitan cities.
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