Un jardin sur le nil by Hermes

Love at first spray, the mellow sweetness of the mango makes me nostalgic about it's daily consumption in the unrelenting Indian heat, setting the temporal stage in the tropical havens.

Reminiscent of the apotheosised Nile that gave birth to the Egyptian civilizations, filling vegetal accords symbolise the Niles great deeds of fruition and cultivation through flooding ever so regularly during the months of Akhet - the inundation. The generous mother of this unforgiving dessert and the manifestation of the great Anuket, brings forth fertile lush banks and the note of bulrushes like papyrus- becoming starchy and slightly dry but transparent .

ultimately the genesis of Egyptian life, an oasis from the arid landscape with it's promise of certain death and starvation otherwise.

An oasis for me to be reminded of my intimate Indian summers abandoned by my new life in exchange for this lonely metropolis.

The enlightening aquatic lotus perhaps from the same oasis symbolising hope and perseverance, to root it's beautiful orderly geometric shape from the most disorderly and ominous of depths. Provides a soft and silky undertone to the sweet green mango skin. Aiding it's guidance is the king of flowers the peony blending in smoothly with the softness of the lotus- the queen, cultivating a gorgeous fragrant backbone for the mango which dries down to a more ritualistic tone of incenses and labdanum worshipping their efforts.

An aromatic fresh and fruity timeless masterpiece !!

Quintessentially this scent is the celebration of the fertile eruption of life, the generosity of the Nile- by extension our mother rivers, ultimately serving as homage to my Indian summers where I lived as one with nature.