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Black and white illustration of a woman sitting at a desk looking at her computer screen from a back/side angle. Her hair is in a loose bun on the top of her head and she’s wearing a tank top. Beside her is a window with curtains that are bunched and tied revealing a night sky: a crescent moon and some stars beyond. Glowing light shows a portion of face and arm, but all is mostly black. On the desk is a big computer screen, keyboard, a cup with pencils, some books, and a tissue box. On the screen is a color promo photo of a Carnal Flower squat, round perfume bottle with its black top and red writing. By Alabaster Rhumb for The Sillage Series.

Sillage 3: Carnal Flower * Poetry + Prose * Jehanne Dubrow

aromatica poetica January 11, 2024

Aromatica Poetica is delighted to present the third in a series called Sillage by Jehanne Dubrow. She is the author of several books of poetry and prose that dance with our heart’s senses, including Taste: A Book of Small Bites, which we highly recommend! Each of the 12 poems are written in the voice of a specific perfume—this one is Carnal Flower—and were begun during the height of the pandemic. For this Sillage series, the poems are paired with a …

Wikimedia image of Icelandic Pasture with short grass in the foreground and a massive glacier behind with a river of ice flowing between two landmasses—one rocky and grey, the other sloping and brownish green.

“An Ode to Icelandic Tap Water” & Other Poems by Sara Letourneau

aromatica poetica May 27, 2021

An Ode to Icelandic Tap Water I was told to drink you, that you are “completely safe” and “no other tap water on Earth tastes so good,” and I cringed as if I had sipped rancid milk. Where I come from, such water perfumes the skin with trace metals during a shower, and who knows what kind of slow death it inflicts on one’s cells. Regardless, I pour my first glass of you, and you appear as water should, clear …