20080627

尼羅河花園中的思念

法國品牌HERMES的Un Jardin sur le Nil (尼羅河花園中性淡香水)


Top notes: Grapefruit, green mango, carrot, tomato
Heart notes: Hyacinth, lotus, peony, tule, orange, calamus
Base notes: Sycamore, labdanum, iris, cinnamon, frankincense, musk


好喜歡的質感香水, 中西非交會, 層次多元的神祕香味.

其中一種調香, 是尋覓已久的氣味, 即是後味的 Frankincense "乳香脂樹" 所散發的木質味, 自己始終覺得, 這木調香既古老又神祕, 彷彿從千年之上古老國度中幽遠飄來, 絲絲情思, 猶存久遠, 卻忽遠忽近......萬物之大, 渺小如我的生命之淚.

喜歡這款香水的香氣在身上幽幽地釋放, 剛接觸時的前味感覺是明亮燦爛的, 而中間調又交雜著酸, 甜, 苦, 澀, 而我的最愛後調中 "乳香脂樹" 香氣, 卻極為隱密地在現實生活中, 若即若離, "乳香" 存在或顯現時, 我會有安全感, 隨著香氣漸行隱去, 莫名的失落感又再度引起.....不知這樣的感覺算不算幸福? 這種物質會讓人思念不知是不是幸福? 在一切如沙特 "嘔吐"所形容的現實中, 我對香氣存不存在的迷戀, 到底是擁有了? 還是失去了?


Frankincense trees


乳香, 自然界中可以取得的乳香樹脂有兩種.
* Frankincense trees/ Burseraceae(橄欖科)/ Boswellia Carteri(乳香屬)
* Mastic tree/ Anacardiaceae(漆樹科)/ Pistacia(黃連木屬)


Mastic tree- "Chios Tears"


高雄文化中心五福路兩旁, 約1973年種植的 "黃連木", 深痕樹皮, 也會流出具香氣 "情人淚珠" 的黃金樹脂. 雖與真正製作香料的乳香黃連木不盡相同, 所聞的香氣與尼羅河花園香水後味卻有幾分類似. (這款香水使用的乳香是哪一種並不知? )
Pistacia chinensis "黃連木"/ Anacardiaceae(漆樹科)/ Pistacia(黃連木屬) , 別名: 楷木(孔子木)


Pistacia chinensis bark




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Oliver Weber 的 Lightening

是光亮的. 若情感維繫不好, 就成了 "四分休止符"

6/12, 謝謝出現在我生命中的人.....





20080626

庭院深深深幾許?





庭院深深深幾許? 楊柳堆煙,簾幕無重數。

玉勒雕鞍遊冶處,樓高不見章臺路。

雨橫風狂三月暮,門掩黃昏,無計留春住。

淚眼問花花不語,亂紅飛過秋千去。


--歐陽修【蝶戀花】



20080611

Isaac Albéniz



Rubinstein plays Albéniz "Navarra"



Ana Vidovic - Isaac Albéniz - Asturias


沒有的藍莓夜....



Cat Power The Greatest - My Blueberry Nights


Once I wanted to be the greatest
No wind or waterfall could stop me
And then came the rush of the flood
The stars at night turned you to dust

Melt me down
To big black armour
Leave no trace
Of grace
Just in your honor
Lower me down
That corporate slob
Make a watch
For a space in town
For the lack of the dregs
Of my bed I've been sleeping
Lower me down
Pin me in
Secure the grounds

For the later parade

Once I wanted to be the greatest
Two fists of solid rock
With brains that could explain
Any feelings
Lower me down
Pin me in
Secure the grounds
For the lack of the drugs
My faith had been sleeping
For the later parade

Once I wanted to be the greatest
No wind or water fall could stop me
And then came the rush of the flood
The stars at night turned you to dust