Olivier Durbano The Gushing Water Stone 20 all photos courtesy of the perfumer
Debuting at his 20th year at Pitti Fragranze on September 13th is the 20th “stone poem” in perfumer, artist, jeweler, Oliver Durbano’s evocative fragrance collection. His perfumes, all made by hand in Grasse, find harmonies in the natural and spiritual realms. Unlike many of his past perfumes over the years Olivier Durbano The Gushing Water Stone is not based on a gemstone.
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Olivier Durbano is deeply spiritual and each composition always comes with a number which has deeper significance; here, The Gushing Water Stone 20 is based in part on two passages from the Bible and references numerology:
“Who turned the rock into a pool, the hard rock into springs of water“. Psalm 114:8
“Then Moses raised his arm and struck the rock twice with his staff. Water gushed out, and the community and their livestock drank”. Numbers 20:11
The number 20: The Judgment, Fire element, blown by the angels of blessing, opens the Gates of Intuition to Freedom.
collage by Michelyn
Olivier Durbano The Gushing Water Stone 20 in Olivier’s own poetic words:
“Strikes and stuns
Lacerates the sky, the veil
The Stone trembles, vibrates
Sun and Moon freeze
As One. And the moment
To the earth, with the fingertips
Which is Signed
Strikes
Roll the Stone
then breaks
Free thought without veil.
A heart dances, and crowns
Curve the vertigo of the Soul
Explodes and gushes
In the sand of Time, Relics
Faith swirls
The Water that pierces
Blessed
Born of You
Morning Star illuminates the dew
O … Joy
Mari e
Water gushes out like a Breath
Go through the Gate
Blessed be Time
Contemplate Completeness
And streams into new Life
The Living Source
Trembles”
Top notes: Frankincense, marjoram, juniper, coriander, bamboo leaves; Heart notes: Aleppo pine, liquorice, gurjum balm, broom, fenugreek, sesame, marine christe; Base notes: vetiver, ambergris, benzoin, myrrh, muscs, labdanum
Michelyn Camen, Editor-in-Chief
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