The studio was filled with the heavy scent of roses ...
Act III Scene 2
The day dawns. What time is it?
The Green Fairy was the inspiration during the night's endeavours and now you are finished. Your subject is still sitting in front of you ... What a beautiful model ... So well dressed, so carefully groomed, so irresistibly charming ... beautiful and intoxicating ... as intoxicating as the indolic scent of flowers in full bloom coming from the garden. So strange - only yesterday you were just friends. The bees fly from one flower to the next, continuing the cycle of life. Butterflies in your stomach. What's going on? What's all the fuss about? An overwhelming attraction stirs you up. You haven't fallen in love - yet.
A charming Italian word describes this feeling wonderfully: Innamoramento, being in love.
‘Every perfume created with emotion is a portrait of the artist; the wearer is, so to speak, the occasion, the event in which the creator reveals himself through his colourful scent. I kept this perfume a secret, I was afraid that it might be a reflection of my soul.’ Cristiano Canali
