Venus

The Goddess Planet draws its circles in the sky.

Daffodil, jasmine grandiflorum and Anatolian rose absolutes make the ambrosial centre that reflects those blooming circles. Sparkling champagne foam, fig leaf and Mediterranean herbs flutter around it like a butterfly entourage, bergamot bright over them, pear cool and skinless, lilac molecules thinning the air above the flowers.

Sheer caramel, amber, oakmoss and cacao fix all of it to the Earth and glow on skin like an aura. Rare botanicals are lifted here by some of the human confections the Goddess Planet loves. An anointment rather than a mere mask, it conjures the divine beauty, love and sovereignty inherent in every person and situation.

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.