ANATOLE LEBRETON URUK

URUK Fragrance 30ML

Resinous - spicy Cistus labdanum, nutmeg, incense

Uruk, Mesopotamia - in the south of today's Iraq - 5000 years ago, the birth of writing.

To better handle the flow of goods and foodstuffs in the city-state of Uruk, Sumerians used the tip of a dried cane to write nail-shaped signs on clay tablets.

They matched these symbols to sounds or words, inventing the first writing system.

An unprecedented invention, writing is a formidable creative act: an idea is materialized by symbols to which a meaning is assigned.

Writing fixes language on a lasting medium, capturing spoken words that would otherwise vanish.

Olfactory canvas

Orange, nutmeg, elemi Burning incense, cistus oil Labdanum absolute, benzoin, animalic amber accord (papyrus, ambrarome, ambrox)

"RICOPRENDO LE MIE TAVOLETTE D'ARGILLA CON SIMBOLI PROFUMATI E SEGNI CUNEIFORMI, SCRISSI LA FORMULA DI QUESTA FRAGRANZA, SCOPPIETTANDO DI RESINE E BRUCIANDO INCENSO.