Mars

Victory before the spear lands.

The spark of creation in the cosmic womb, and the gleam of the burnished shield. The invisible fire belongs to the Olympian thrusting the spear. Blood orange comes off rind-bright as a ray, pink pepper berry snapping dry behind it, new spring grass raw and green, and molten iron nourishes passion and strength.

Real rockrose and wool absolutes drape like the golden fleece of Aries, dense and faintly animal. Soft leather and smoky cade darken what they touch, ginger root keeps it hot, and carrot goes earthy and sweet where the citrus burns away while cypriol holds the smoke against patchouli. It beams a fierce benevolence upon those it favors.

Planets Perfumery treats astrology as a symbolic language for meeting the planetary archetypes in the patterns of a life, and then asks how those archetypes might communicate through the senses. Jenna Scott and Socorro Carrillo-Lopez, both archetypal astrologers, met at the California Institute of Integral Studies and founded it with Mauricio Garcia, who works animistically. Each release is co-created with the spirit of the archetype involved, and the aesthetic world around it is built the same way.

The work is small batch and independent. Nothing endangered goes into any of it. Ethical naturals are the priority, and the synthetics are selected for sustainable origins, biodegradability and mood-elevating qualities. Three archetypes exist so far, and the intention is the complete system, each one a sensory doorway into its own archetypal world.