Description

A perfume as fresh and sweet as oblivion

Notes: Pomegranate, jasmine, rose, lavender, lily, patchouli, musk, and petrichor

This floral fragrance is more complex than your usual flower bouquet. The scent of Lethe echoes the journey of Persephone into the underworld, beginning like a spring day with the bright note of Pomegranate followed by the sweet complexity of jasmine, rose, and lavender. As Persephone journeys beneath the earth, notes of patchouli, musk, and petrichor combine with the lingering floral notes. The final affect is reminiscent of the milky mists of the river Lethe, as it runs through the elysian fields of the Underworld.

Mythological Inspiration: The River of Forgetfulness and Oblivion in the Greek Underworld

The Aeneid by Virgirl

“But all the rest, once they have turned the wheel of time
for a thousand years: God calls them forth to the Lethe,
great armies of souls, their memories blank so that
they may revisit the overarching world once more
and begin to long to return to bodies yet again.”

 

The Myth of Er from Plato’s Republic

“Of this they were all obliged to drink a certain quantity, and those who were not saved by wisdom drank more than was necessary; and each one as he drank forgot all things.”

 

Layer With: Persephone’s Kiss

Ingredients: Fragrance oil, Ethyl alcohol, vegetable glycerin, fractionated coconut oil