#baccante

Bacchante, 1921 | Anselmo Bucci (1887-1995, Italia)

Satyre et bacchante (Satiro e baccante), 1834 (Musée du Louvre, Paris) | Jacques Pradier (1790-1852, Switzerland-France)

Baccanale (a bacchanale) | Circle of Michelangelo Maestri (1741-1812, Italia)

The Bacchante 

BACCANTE by Alkemia

The essence of an untamed spirit. High bush blueberries, wild ivy, Spanish lavender, aged oakmoss, tonka, decaying bark, and forest fungi.

First Impression: This is so green on first smell, it made me wrinkle my nose. It’s unlike any other Alkemia scent I’ve smelled before. I can’t pick out any specific note other than blueberry, but it doesn’t smell artificial? It smells like overripe blueberries that fell off the bush and got stepped on and burst. It’s such a WET smell. Every other note melds together and the only word that comes to mind is GREEN. But, it’s green like moss over dirt rather than leaves & trees? The blueberries are so sweet and feminine. The sweetness toes the line of gourmand, but it’s not quite there yet. This is a very unique forest scent, that teeters on the edge of being edible.

Dry Down: Really impressed at the longevity of the top notes.It’s a pretty forward facing scent and the bottle is pretty similar to the drydown. I feel like Alkemia can fade into a pretty generic powdery scent, but the top notes on this one STAY. I love putting a little oil in my hair and catching whiffs all day.

Wear If: the word nymph feels aspirational to you. This makes me feel like some type of forest deity of springtime.

Soffia il vento

Su di un ininterrotto fascio di Io.

Folle come una nuvola che passeggia

Sotto il sole di mezzogiorno.

Il vento ti dissipa non più uno solamente

Come un arcobaleno!

Friedrich! 

Tu avevi ragione.

Qunado ho visto il molteplice

Dio è morto.

Non perché io l' ho condannato

Non perché gli assennati li hanno ucciso.

Dio è morto perché lo ho assaporato.

Come duce Jan, l' ho mangiato

,Assaporato.

Come una Baccante, un cannibale

Che mangia il suo stesso corpo

Per rimanere sé stesso:Identità d' identità, eterna presenza.