Calling all aromancers!
This page is intended as a monthly update on activities, and a space for "aromatic enlightenment".
Well, after an exciting launch at John Lewis' with Theo and Peter the brand goes from strength to strength
. Maya has been launched as a companion fragrance to Pyxis, Nenufar and Ankh.
And so a new world fragrance joins the European stable.
New outlets are coming along in time for Christmas, including Firebox and New World Music. So along with
the British Museum and this site which should become transactional by mid November, here are opportunities
to purchase the fragrances 5 different ways on the web as well as at John Lewis in Liverpool, Brent Cross,
Peter Jones, Oxford Street, Manchester (Cheadle) and Southampton.
A new Beauty site will also feature the fragrances- of which more news in December.
Scents of Time come with a booklet of up to 30 pages explaining the background to their development- how they
were lost,. found and re-created for the modern world. As such they are not only great perfumes in their own right,
but make a marvellous gifts and terrific topics of conversation.
Available in single 50 ml, single 100ml and 2 x 50 ml coffrets there is a range of prices to suit all pockets.
The first four fragrances between them span over four thousand years of history.
And because love itself is timeless, Scents of Time couldn't be a better offering to your partner.
In this final message I intend putting in a small piece about the romance of aromas from time to time
- hope it brings you enjoyment and food for thought!
David Pybus
"And a merchant said, "Speak to us of Buying and Selling."
And he answered and said:
To you the earth yields her fruit, and you shall not want if you but know how to fill your hands.
It is in exchanging the gifts of the earth that you shall find abundance and be satisfied.
Yet unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger.
When in the market place you toilers of the sea and fields and vineyards meet the weavers and the potters
and the gatherers of spices, -
Invoke then the master spirit of the earth, to come into your midst and sanctify the scales and the reckoning that
weighs value against value.
And suffer not the barren-handed to take part in your transactions, who would sell their words for your labour.
To such men you should say,
"Come with us to the field, or go with our brothers to the sea and cast your net;
For the land and the sea shall be bountiful to you even as to us."
And if there come the singers and the dancers and the flute players, - buy of their gifts also.
For they too are gatherers of fruit and frankincense, and that which they bring, though fashioned of dreams,
is raiment and food for your soul.
And before you leave the marketplace, see that no one has gone his way with empty hands.
For the master spirit of the earth shall not sleep peacefully upon the wind till the needs of the least of you
are satisfied.".
Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) The Prophet