Description
The focal point for the creations of Beaufort London is the naval history of Great Britain; the real part and an imagined and embellished part. Always with a dark and strange side, which is the fascinating thing about Beaufort London.
Terror & Magnificence is inspired by the buildings of the architect Nicholas Hawksmoor (1661-1736), whose haunting structures penetrate the London landscape.
Hawksmoor, nicknamed ‘the devil’s architect’, continues to attract interest for his work, his peculiar churches, which introduced elements of Egyptology into traditional ecclesiastical environments. These curious architectural details, and his recent reputation as a Freemason, have contributed to the city becoming a focal point for the occult and the arts.
By contrasting obscurity with vigorous complexity, perfumer Pia Long has combined a vivid olfactory impression of this character, his works and his myth.
Chords of Somali incense, dry woods and wet stone are fused with the smoke of opium, papyrus and kyphi, underpinned by a base of Haitian vetiver, labdanum, benzoin and myrrh.
As perfumer Pia Long comments, “the fragrance we have created feels as if it has always existed, as if we have summoned a myth from the ether”.
The product packaging bears a depiction of Hawksmoor’s famous Christ Church Spitalfields in East London.
Powerful Eau de Parfum with 30% perfume concentration.
Top notes: saffron, black pepper and birch tar.
Heart notes: somalian incense, tobacco absolute, kiphi accord and papyrus.
Base notes: myrrh resin, benzoin resin, labdanum absolute, Haitian vetiver and wet stone accord.
Diego (verified owner) –
If you have read Umberto Eco’s “The Name of the Rose” (or, failing that, seen the film), you will surely remember the abbey’s secret library, full of forbidden books that the monks kept hidden because they believed they should not be read, as the knowledge they contained was an attack on God and faith. Terror and Magnificence reminds me of the smell that this abbey should have: the stones damp and mouldy from the passing of the years, the thousand-year-old manuscripts full of dust and the liturgical incense with which the monks celebrated their homilies. Never has a perfume been able to blend the sacred and the profane, the holy and the sinful in such a way as this one. A true marvel that I am sure I will buy again and again until God (or the Devil) wills it.
Daring Light (store manager) –
Thank you very much Diego.
The smell has nuances and forms, and you have managed to capture it to perfection.
A marvellous creation that occupies a privileged place in our hearts.
Kind regards.
LUIS (verified owner) –
Good
Daring Light (store manager) –
Thank you very much Luis. Best regards.