XMS SP

XMS SP

Engine that turns the cogs siphoned with the Victorian Age and fine tuned ladies and gentlemen dressed partly of science and mechanics with the scent of persuasion and dapper. Wheels that bind the carols, pieces of smaller things that make a larger whole.

For our tree Perfume, Jacek and I chose our SP brand, named the perfume XMS, to resonate the feel of the holidays with the intricacies of the steam punk, darkness of the Vampire and cause of the season. The artwork was created with cogs over wheels and devices that gives the appearance of a tree.

"The SP, the mechanism of a steam age. Why just the letters? I am a great fiend of the old typewriter and it struck me one day to deduce the keys would be the name of this and future perfume oils that I would want to wear.

A little about me. My name is Seth Kincaid, I am the other half of VApothecary and while I do more of the mathematical elements of perfume, I too am a perfumist. I studied in France for a year before the chemistry of such studies bored me and began to suppress the artist in me. Sure, I could have worked another two years at the compounds and fixtures of science but scent to me cannot be so controlled that it loses the natural sense of smell. Sometimes it should just be what it is and a dash of imagination.

I grew up in Eastern Europe and as a boy I always had a fondness to the exotic flowers my Mother would pick on the hill outside our family home. She would sit and discuss the flowers with me from her many books and we would enjoy the intricacies of the veins, the colours and the scents they sometimes exuded. She told me once, "Seth, not all flowers have scent, at least not all that we can smell," and I interrupted her with a 'why', "because we all have our purpose as does a flower and those that drink from its nectar," and I remember exclaiming, "Like butterflies and bees!"

"Yes, like butterflies, bees, birds and many tiny insects. Everything in its own way is a mechanism for something else."

This is where my interpretation of steampunk became a part of my being. I would see cogs in everything and much like Emerson sees shapes in everything that create art for him, I see things that shape other things in their simplistic being in order to make itself something even bigger in the world.

This is the SKL mechanic for both male and female, when applied on the skin, may the perfume resonate a beautiful period from our past, a part of our present and become part of our perfumes we reach for in the future.

Blue Hungarian Pine, Crystal Vanilla Musk, Kashmir Red Musk, Black Incense, Golden Amber and White Musk.

This will become deeper with age and resonate in both hot and cold climate. Wear SKL during the time leading up giving presents, be a part of the giving and may it in turn be a gift unto itself.