An elemental primordium of mineralistic volcanic basalt, smelted metal ores, amberwood, smokey birch tar, old leather, galbanum, white oud, grey amber, the petrichor of ocean rain, wet sand, accented with a contrast of bergamot, Sichuan peppercorn, gingergrass, and white patchouli. Strangely ethereal. Oddly attractive.
A slumber did my spirit seal;
I had no human fears:
She seemed a thing that could not feel
The touch of earthly years.
No motion has she now, no force;
She neither hears nor sees;
Rolled round in earth's diurnal course,
With rocks, and stones, and trees.
-- William Wordsworth
Art: Jupiter and Io by Antonio da Correggio, circ. 1530
A slumber did my spirit seal;
I had no human fears:
She seemed a thing that could not feel
The touch of earthly years.
No motion has she now, no force;
She neither hears nor sees;
Rolled round in earth's diurnal course,
With rocks, and stones, and trees.
-- William Wordsworth
Art: Jupiter and Io by Antonio da Correggio, circ. 1530