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FLOR Y CANTO

Aztec Flower

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$205.00
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$205.00
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ARQUISTE Flor y Canto a Mexican Floral Fragrance
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FLOR Y CANTO

Aztec Flower

Regular price
$205.00
Sale price
$205.00

In Aztec Mexico, flowers were an august offering to Gods and Princes. Transporting you to a temple altar where heaps of flowers exude their intoxicating scent, FLOR Y CANTO is a white floral fragrance with a subtle copal incense base. Focusing on the highest quality natural essences and absolutes of five native Mexican flowers: Mexican tuberose, magnolia grandiflora, plumeria, marigold and wild acacia.

100 ml / 3.4 fl oz. Eau de Parfum

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History

August, 1400, Tenochtitlan, Mexico.
On the most fragrant festival in the Aztec calendar, the rhythm of drums palpitates as a wealth of flowers is offered on temple altars. Billowing clouds of Copal act as a backdrop to the intoxicating breath of Tuberose, Magnolia, Plumeria and the intensely yellow aroma of the sacred Marigold, Cempoalxochitl.

Developed with Rodrigo Flores Roux.



Description

Olfactive pyramid

Top Notes

Mexican acacia

Marigold 

Crushed leaf accents 

Heart Notes

Tuberose absolute

Magnolia grandiflora

Red and white plumeria 

Base Notes

Copal (Mexican incense)

Benzoin

Mexican vanilla bean

 

Intro

History

Description

Five Mexican flowers offered on temple altars believed by the Aztecs to be the intoxicating scent of Xochiquetzal, the goddess of beauty. Natural, opulent & explosive.

Eau de Parfum. Available in two sizes: 100 ml / 3.4 fl oz and 50ml / 1.7 fl oz.

Our bottles are of the highest Italian quality with our signature ‘A’ engraved metal cap, as well as the newest technology for an invisible spray tube.


More

More research

- In the Aztec language, a metaphor for poetry is “in Xochitl in Cuicatl”(Flor y Canto – Flower and Song), which exemplifies the importance of flora in Mexico.  Xochitl, or “flower”, was used to refer to eloquent, elegant and well-used words.

- Two Aztec deities were closely associated with flora: Xochipili, the ‘Prince of Flowers’ was the god of summer. The exquisite body of his wife Xochiquetzal, was believed to be the source of all floral scents.

- The Aztec Gods received their offerings through fragrant smoke: White Copal, an aromatic tree resin used by Mesoamerican cultures as burned incense, acts as a cool, menthol backdrop to the rich floral scents.

- The velvety scent of Omixochitl or Mexican Tuberose is spiked by a warm-but-cold sweetness that was thought to attract benevolent spirits.

- Flowers and vegetables for the Mexico City market are still cultivated in Xochimilco, an area composed of floating gardens, known as chinampas, which dates from Aztec times.

 

Bio

Bibliography

– Caso, Alfonso, The Aztecs: People of the Sun, translated by Lowell Dunham, illustrated by Miguel Covarrubias; Norman: Oklahoma University Press, 1958.

– Velasco Lozano, Ana María L. & Nagao, Debra, Mitologia y Simbolismo de las Flores, “Arqueologia Mexicana” Magazine, Las Flores en el Mexico Prehispanico, Numero 78, Mexico City, 2006.

– Cañizares-Esguerra, Jorge, Puritan conquistadors: Iberianizing the Atlantic, 1550-1700Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, 2006.



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