Viva Maria

Notes

Top: Bergamot, Fichi D'India
Heart: Jasmine, Crushed Seashells
Base: Ambergris

The palazzo awaits, bathed in golden light.

Enter through the stone arches. Hear the echoes of your footsteps as you trace the marble stairs upwards, upwards, upwards. Push open the ajar door and find her there. She, draped in a white silk robe open at the breast, lies still upon the red-sateen dormeuse—a blush clam-shell in her palm. Jasmine flowers strung from the gilded chandelier spread their falling petals like tears, gently coaxed by the salt-licked breeze. Polished marble gleams, inlaid with gold and mother of pearl—the silk drapes, folded and thronged in amber, shield the Mediterranean sun from breaching the secret confines of the boudoir.