“Like trying to catch smoke with your bare hands” – Bem, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
A Mistpouffer is an unexplained natural sound, a sonic boom like distant cannon fire that seems to come out of the fog over large lakes or rivers. It has been recorded all over the world throughout history, and is the source of many legends. In Japan the phenomenon is called uminari, meaning “cries from the sea”. In Connecticut, the Machimoodus state park gets its name from the Native American name for the area, which means “place of bad noises”.
Despite scientific attempts to understand the sounds (that can still be heard to this day), its source has still not been identified. Possible explanations include solar winds resonating in the atmosphere, underground earthquakes or gas bubbles being released from the deep. Others believe it is the work of extraterrestrial or subsurface civilisations. Early settlers in North America were told by the native Haudenosaunee Iroquois that the booms were the sound of the Great Spirit continuing his work of shaping the earth.
Rendering this mystical water thunder as a fragrance was as elusive as the sound itself. We spent four years and hundreds of iterations before finding the right balance between being distinctive and inexplainable. Foggy but not aquatic, smoky but not heavy. Natural, but in equal parts supernatural.
NOTES
Top: Imortelle, Bergamot
Middle: Ozone, Fig Leaf, Pine
Base: Smoke, Malt Sugar, Cypriol, Vetiver
HOW IT WEARS
Opening with the warm, honeyed sweetness of immortelle illuminated by the brightness of bergamot, Mistpouffer floats above the skin as it wears, its ozonic heart note remaining prominent throughout its wear. Green fig leaf and sharp pine appear next, underpinned by resinous cypriol and smoke, countered by gourmand malt sugar. A truly unique fragrance that will last 6-8 hours on the skin.
LORE LOVES
This fragrance is addictively confusing. It’s a big-bang style cacophony of notes that somehow… just works. Natural and supernatural simultaneously, it evokes visions of a thunderstorm over the sea, against the backdrop of an orange sunset. Mineralic and camphorous, yet sweet, Mistpouffer is a surreal scentscape that holds you in its thrall.
ABOUT THE BRAND
Founded by a group of 5 multidisciplinary creatives in Stockholm, Sweden, Stora Skuggan (or “Big Shadow” in Swedish) is a fragrance house that enthrals and enchants with its esoteric scent creations.
Approaching fragrance as a form of abstract art, Stora Skuggan’s line invites a range of interpretations. Their fragrances function as wearable works of art; blending concept, aesthetic, form and function together to tell distinct olfactory stories.
Handcrafted in-house in the Stora Skuggan studios and labs, each scent revolves around its own mythology, taking inspiration from stories, images and sounds both real and imagined.
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