STORA SKUGGAN EAU DE PARFUM / SILPHIUM

Made in Sweden.

Silphium eau de parfum.  30ml spray bottle with artisanal cap.  "Even if one just tastes it, at once arouses a humour throughout the body and has a very healthy aroma” - Pedanius Dioscorides, around year 70 BC  Silphium (probably of the genus Ferula) was a plant that grew in the area of Cyrene, present day Libya, and was widely renowned as a spice, medicinal herb and perfume ingredient throughout the empires of the classical antiquity. It was praised by Greek philosophers and writers, as well as Roman emperors and cookbook authors.  There were many attempts to cultivate Silphium, but they inevitably failed. It would only grow wild in a limited area of the north African coast. This, in combination with its qualities as seasoning and medicine made Silphium the most valuable spice in the world, outshining both saffron and cinnamon. The demand for Silphium eventually became so overwhelming that it was harvested to extinction, and the taste and smell of the once greatest spice in the world were lost in time.  Stora Skuggan's rendition of this historical plant is created by researching surviving assumed relatives of Silphium, using aromachemicals (the molecular building blocks of scents) to create an accord that represents what descriptions remains. This is set against a background of ancient incense, woods and leather.

TOP NOTES:  silphium / accord / cistus

MID NOTES:  cinnamon / tobbaco / geranium / black pepper / ginger / clove

BASE NOTES:  frakincense / cedarwood / myrrh / leather

Stora Skuggan, a Stockholm-based niche perfume studio founded in 2015, is knon for crafting unique, artisanal fragrances that are built around evocative stores and mystacl narratives.

Ingredients:  Alcohol Denat., Parfum, Aqua, Benzyl Salicylate, Citronellol, Geraniol, Limonene, Linalool, Eugenol, Citral, Hydroxycitronellal, Isoeugenol, Benzyl Benzoate