Regeneration Alchemy General Catalog Perfume Oil (Available)
"one day I pulled a book down and opened it, and there it was...The lines rolled easily across the page, there was a flow. Each line had its own energy and was followed by another like it. The very substance of each line gave the page a form, a feeling of something carved into it. And here, at last, was a man who was not afraid of emotion. The humour and the pain were intermixed with a superb simplicity. The beginning of that book was a wild and enormous miracle to me. I had a library card. I checked the book out, took it to my room, climbed into my bed and read it, and I knew long before I had finished that here was a man who had evolved a distinct way of writing. The book was Ask the Dust and the author was John Fante" — Charles Bukowski
Arturo Bandini is a struggling writer living in a residential hotel in Bunker Hill, a rundown section of Downtown Los Angeles. Living off the zest of oranges, he unconsciously creates a picture of Los Angeles as a modern dystopia during the Great Depression era. His published short story "The Little Dog Laughed" impresses no one in his seedy boarding house except for one 14-year-old girl. Destitute, he wanders into the Columbia Buffet where he meets Camilla Lopez, a waitress.
This is a scent I created thinking all the while of this wonderful novel. You are first hit with the scents of juicy oranges with a touch of lime. As this fades, the earthy dust takes over — woods, resins, sandalwood, as well as the charred sap of birch and cade (and even a smidge of that ever-dirty patchouli). These are all essential oils, with no chemicals or artificial fragrance.
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