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First, a definition: a \u201cpalimpsest\u201d is a material, such as a parchment, that\u2019s been written on, erased, and written on again. With a palimpsest, you may see traces of the story written before. (Another word that evokes this sense of story within story is \u201cpentimento,\u201d the glimpse of a painting under a painting. Maybe the name of an Aftelier<\/a> Palimpsest flanker?)<\/p>\n Mandy Aftel, Aftelier\u2019s founder and nose, says she was inspired to create Palimpsest while she was researching her newest book, Fragrant: The Secret Life of Scent. \u201cI wanted to capture the feeling of how the past is alive in the present, but transformed into a beautiful, shadowy feeling of layered richness and sensuality,\u201d she writes.<\/p>\n Like all of Aftelier\u2019s fragrances, Palimpsest is made from natural materials. It includes notes of firetree (an African tree), ambergris, yuzu, vanilla absolute, ylang ylang, jasmine and peach. Like a palimpsest, the fragrance is meant to fold \u201cback upon itself over time, the opening notes joining with the deepest notes and the aromatic traces of the earlier notes persisting in an intricate evolution.\u201d<\/p>\n Palimpsest smells dense and telescoped. A sniff tells you right away that it\u2019s not a bright, diffusive department store perfume. The fragrance starts with a flash of green that instantly gives way to a focused heart of fruit I imagine to be dark purple with a velvety skin, like a fig \u2014 but not a fig, and not anything I\u2019ve seen at the supermarket. Sometimes the fruit stays fruity, and sometimes it turns more vanillic, reminding me of a chocolate-covered banana, especially if I put my nose right up to skin. Further away, I smell ylang ylang more clearly.<\/p>\n To me, Palimpsest has a tropical feel. These aren\u2019t the tropics of Club Med and suntan oil, but the sort of tropics you\u2019d see on a sepia-toned postcard of wooden trading ships and wind-blown palms. Also, since the fragrance is so rich, I\u2019d wear it with sweaters on a cold day rather than on an island vacation. Palimpsest is heady \u2014 it packs some sillage \u2014 and it wears all day, no problem.<\/p>\n As for whether Palimpsest plays the hide-and-seek of a real palimpsest, I don’t really smell it, but that could be my skin or my faulty nose. In any case, it doesn’t make the fragrance any less interesting.<\/p>\n Aftelier Palimpsest is available as a 7 ml Parfum ($170), 30 ml Eau de Parfum spray ($170), and 2 ml Parfum mini ($50). Samples are $6. To buy Palimpsest, see Aftelier under Perfume Houses<\/a>.<\/p>\n Note: image of the Archimedes Palimpsest via PBS \/ NOVA<\/a>.<\/p>\n Read the rest of this article »<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" First, a definition: a \u201cpalimpsest\u201d is a material, such as a parchment, that\u2019s been written on, erased, and written on again. With a palimpsest, you may see traces of the story written before. (Another word that evokes this sense of story within story is \u201cpentimento,\u201d the glimpse of a painting under a painting. Maybe the name of an Aftelier<\/a> Palimpsest flanker?)<\/p>\n Mandy Aftel, Aftelier\u2019s founder and nose, says she was inspired to create Palimpsest while she was researching her newest book, Fragrant: The Secret Life of Scent. \u201cI wanted to capture the feeling of how the past is alive in the present, but transformed into a beautiful, shadowy feeling of layered richness and sensuality,\u201d she writes…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[24,25],"class_list":{"0":"post-117104","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-perfume-talk","7":"tag-aftelier","8":"tag-natural-perfume","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nstperfume.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nstperfume.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nstperfume.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nstperfume.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nstperfume.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nstperfume.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nstperfume.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nstperfume.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nstperfume.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Aftelier](\"https:\/\/nstperfume.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/at-p-s.jpg\")
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