#iris silver mist

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Jenny Hval's Iris Silver Mist

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Track of the day // Jenny Hval - The Artist Is Absent

From the album Iris Silver Mist, out May 2nd on 4AD.

[moratoirenoir]

[thebeautycove]

How can you suppose to live a life with no scents?

Iris make me step back to my joyful yesterday.

Powder room of dreams, pink velvety lipsticks, fresh scented linen, morning cut flowers from our yard on the breakfast tray, windows silently open on a sweet spring welcoming garden.

Iris is one of the most powerful note in perfumes reminding youth good times.

Here’s to feel young and beautiful, despite the clock runs relentlessly.

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𝑰𝑹𝑰𝑺. Quanta nostalgica bellezza emana, quanta grazia, delicatezza, femminilità. Una nota che sfiora corde sensoriali intimissime.

Polvere di luce tra i capelli, scintille argentee in coppe di cristallo, lenzuola di lino candido a stropicciare la pelle, tende appena scostate nel chiarore del giorno, vanity table sui quali sperimentare il sapore dolciastro dei rossetti e piumini da cipria rosa confetto che sollevavano nuvole di polvere magica a solleticare naso e gote.

La bellezza era un gioco fatto con mani e occhi pieni di meraviglia, volevamo diventare grandi, vanitose e belle, crescere in fretta e vivere alla velocità della luce.

Fantastico essere consapevoli che quelle sensazioni non sono mai svanite, che da lì non ci siamo mai mosse.

Ecco, quando annusi e vesti una fragranza che vibra di questa nota, ti rendi conto che non puoi immaginare di vivere senza.

Splendidamente rappresentata da Serge Lutens in uno dei suoi classici esclusivi Iris Silver Mist, creato da Maurice Roucel.

Art by SB Sparrow, Iris in the sky blue vase, 1972.

[odoroussavourssweet]

Serge Lutens Iris Silver Mist

Notes: iris, galbanum, cedar, sandalwood, clove, vetiver, musk, incense, resins

Nose: Maurice Roucel

This goes on extremely carroty.  It is Not Fucking Around.  Vivid, raw carrots, with an earthy tinge as though just pulled out of the dirt.  Orris root often has a carrot aspect, but this is practically quipping “what’s up, Doc?”

About half an hour in, it eases up quite a bit. The iris settles into something a bit more buttery and makeup-y, there’s a breath of refined galbanum hanging around the edges, and I get a really nice, delicately sharp, tangy sandalwood.  This dried-down scent has kind of a minimalist aesthetic, like turned-wood furniture.  It’s something you might like if you don’t like perfume and want something a bit odd and androgynous, more a subtle extension of your person than an ornament.

It’s not really my thing, but I could see it being quirkily wonderful for the right person.

[moratoirenoir]

[kinokoteikoku-is-life]

really enjoyed this album

[album-a-day-project]

5/2/25

Jenny Hval

Iris Silver Mist

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This reminds me a lot of Lana del Rey with the sound. For some reason this was a really complicated album to write about. I've taken many breaks and having to come back to this for many re-listens; each time I do it feels better to me. I'm not exactly sure what kind of mood this puts me in or when I would listen to this, but I'm happy I'm doing so. The vocals are less melodic and moreso spoken words sung well. I'm not exactly sure this album has mass appeal, but it's working for me.

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