Silver Olibanum — the union of religions
Updated: Sep 2
Silver Olibanum by Edgardio Chilini is a selective perfume from the Chilini Private collection. Motto: the union of religions. The name is not translated and not simplified. Silver incense as air, not a congress. Cognac in the composition is not a background. For the person whose kindness is character, whose strength is spirit, whose mind is open.
Most people keep faith as private territory. Their own is fenced. What is other does not enter. There is less argument that way, and less fear. A man puts up a fence and calls it fidelity.
He does not put up a fence. The motto of the niche fragrance Silver Olibanum by Edgardio Chilini is the union of religions. Not a congress and not a slogan on a banner. A state of air: different things stand side by side and do not ask that one go dark for the sake of the other.
The evening is warm. The window is open to the garden. On the sill a cup: incense smoulders, herbs beside it, resin a little sweet, wood giving warmth. The smoke rises slowly and turns silver. In it you can no longer tell what is incense, what is honey, what is wormwood. He is built the same way.
By day there was a talk that could easily have become a quarrel. Whose rite is truer, whose house nearer to heaven. He did not take it up. He listened to the end. He kept his own. Kindness is in his character. Strength is in his spirit. His mind is open.
On the shelf the tinctures and balms stand together, without labels for which faith comes first. It is not a collection. A habit of strengthening what is not the body. Silver incense is not a soloist here. With it, spice, rose, tobacco, amber. There is no queue for who leads.
By night the garden darkens. The smoke settles on the wood of the sill. The room is quieter than the evening after an argument would have been. The high did not go to one side. It stayed common — like the air both breathe.
How it wears
Herbs and spice first. Then incense together with resins and warmth. By evening — wood, balsam, musk.
What sets it apart
Different things in one air.
Notes
Top: black cumin, pepper, thyme, lemon balm, ginger, gentian, rosemary, neroli, geranium, basil, bitter almond, amaretto, gardenia, papyrus, white honey, laurel, petitgrain, sage, pink pepper.
Heart: wormwood, birch tar, clove, spruce, nutmeg, cardamom, saffron, cinnamon, cassia, geranium, damask rose, Moroccan rose, iris, jasmine, lavender, myrtle, caramel, frankincense, cashmere wood, tobacco, pine, dark chocolate.
Base: patchouli, sandalwood, cedar, vetiver, agarwood, tonka bean, vanilla, benzoin, castoreum, styrax, leather, oakmoss, Tolu balsam, musk, amber.
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