Top Notes
Malabar black pepper
Persian saffron
Black leather
Heart Notes
Coffee absolute
Sandalwood
Myrrh
Base Notes
Frankincense
Styrax
Cade
Intro
Incense, heady spices and Spanish leather. Mysterious and decadent, it conjures up a bounty of spice-filled trunks, and leather-filled armoirs inside the hull of a galleon traveling between Mexico, the Philipines and Japan. Inspired by our best-selling fragrance NANBAN.
History
Olfactive Restoration: Nagasaki Harbor, Japan, September 1620.
Below deck, darkness has already claimed the merchant ship. A solitary lantern swings gently with the tide, casting warm light across lacquered chests and weathered timber. Within them lie the luxuries of distant kingdoms: pepper from Malabar, Persian saffron, frankincense from Arabia, sandalwood from India and finely crafted Spanish leather. Months at sea have allowed every surface to absorb their fragrance until the vessel itself has become perfumed.
Developed with Nicole Mancini and Rodrigo Flores-Roux.
Description
More
- The pitch black hull of the galleon was saturated with the scent of spice barrels and trunks full of leather. The smokey notes of tar and cade wood give a mysterious, hypnotizing allure, like dying embers in a bonfire.
Bio
– Massarella, Derek, Japanese Travelers in Sixteenth-century Europe: A Dialogue Concerning the Mission of the Japanese Ambassadors to the Roman Curia (1590), Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., January 28, 2013.
– Lidin, Olof G., Tanegashima – The Arrival of Europe in Japan.Routledge, 2002.
– Moran, J.F., The Japanese and the Jesuits, Routledge, 2012.
– Sakamoto Mitsuru et al., Nanban byobu shusei (Compendium of Nanban screens), Tokyo, Chuo Koron Bijutsu Shuppan, 2008.
– Nelson, Thomas, Monumenta Nipponica: Studies on Japanese Culture, Past and Present, Volume 59, Issues 3-4, Sophia University, 2004.
– Boxer, C.R. The Christian Century in Japan, 1549–1650, Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1951. (1993 reprint edition).
– Marcouin, Francis and Keiko Omoto. Quand le Japon s’ouvrit au monde, Paris: Découvertes Gallimard, 1990.
– Hayes, Derek, Historical atlas of the North Pacific Ocean: maps of discovery and scientific exploration, 1500–2000, Seattle, Washington: Sasquatch Books. 2001.
– Annals of His Time: Don Domingo De San Anton Munon Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, Stanford University Press 2006.
– Sotelo, Luis, De ecclesiae Iaponicae statu relatio
– Endo, Shusaku, The Samurai, New Directions Publishing Corporation, Reprint edition, april 1997. (A slightly fictional account of Hasekura’s expedition).
– The World and Japan – Tensho and Keicho missions to Europe 16th – 17th century “世界と日本ー天正・慶長の使節, 1995, Sendai City Museum (Japanese)
– Date Masamune’s Mission to Rome in 1615 国宝「慶長遣欧使節関係資料, Catalogue of Sendai City Museum, 2001. (Japanese)
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DARK GALLEON
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DARK GALLEON
Top Notes
Malabar black pepper
Persian saffron
Black leather
Heart Notes
Coffee absolute
Sandalwood
Myrrh
Base Notes
Frankincense
Styrax
Cade
Intro
Incense, heady spices and Spanish leather. Mysterious and decadent, it conjures up a bounty of spice-filled trunks, and leather-filled armoirs inside the hull of a galleon traveling between Mexico, the Philipines and Japan. Inspired by our best-selling fragrance NANBAN.
History
Olfactive Restoration: Nagasaki Harbor, Japan, September 1620.
Below deck, darkness has already claimed the merchant ship. A solitary lantern swings gently with the tide, casting warm light across lacquered chests and weathered timber. Within them lie the luxuries of distant kingdoms: pepper from Malabar, Persian saffron, frankincense from Arabia, sandalwood from India and finely crafted Spanish leather. Months at sea have allowed every surface to absorb their fragrance until the vessel itself has become perfumed.
Developed with Nicole Mancini and Rodrigo Flores-Roux.
Description
More
- The pitch black hull of the galleon was saturated with the scent of spice barrels and trunks full of leather. The smokey notes of tar and cade wood give a mysterious, hypnotizing allure, like dying embers in a bonfire.
Bio
– Massarella, Derek, Japanese Travelers in Sixteenth-century Europe: A Dialogue Concerning the Mission of the Japanese Ambassadors to the Roman Curia (1590), Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., January 28, 2013.
– Lidin, Olof G., Tanegashima – The Arrival of Europe in Japan.Routledge, 2002.
– Moran, J.F., The Japanese and the Jesuits, Routledge, 2012.
– Sakamoto Mitsuru et al., Nanban byobu shusei (Compendium of Nanban screens), Tokyo, Chuo Koron Bijutsu Shuppan, 2008.
– Nelson, Thomas, Monumenta Nipponica: Studies on Japanese Culture, Past and Present, Volume 59, Issues 3-4, Sophia University, 2004.
– Boxer, C.R. The Christian Century in Japan, 1549–1650, Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1951. (1993 reprint edition).
– Marcouin, Francis and Keiko Omoto. Quand le Japon s’ouvrit au monde, Paris: Découvertes Gallimard, 1990.
– Hayes, Derek, Historical atlas of the North Pacific Ocean: maps of discovery and scientific exploration, 1500–2000, Seattle, Washington: Sasquatch Books. 2001.
– Annals of His Time: Don Domingo De San Anton Munon Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, Stanford University Press 2006.
– Sotelo, Luis, De ecclesiae Iaponicae statu relatio
– Endo, Shusaku, The Samurai, New Directions Publishing Corporation, Reprint edition, april 1997. (A slightly fictional account of Hasekura’s expedition).
– The World and Japan – Tensho and Keicho missions to Europe 16th – 17th century “世界と日本ー天正・慶長の使節, 1995, Sendai City Museum (Japanese)
– Date Masamune’s Mission to Rome in 1615 国宝「慶長遣欧使節関係資料, Catalogue of Sendai City Museum, 2001. (Japanese)
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