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Danse Macabre Soy Candle (black cherry merlot)

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Danse Macabre Soy Candle (black cherry merlot)


Fragrance notes: black cherry merlot

“Tap, tap, tap—Death rhythmically,
Taps a tomb with his heel,
Death at midnight plays a gigue,
Tap, tap, tap, on his violin.
The Winter wind blows, the night is dark,
The lime-trees groan aloud;
White skeletons flit across the gloom,
Running and leaping beneath their huge shrouds."
- The 1872 poem Danse Macabre by Henri Cazalis was set to music by composer Camille Saint-Saëns and is one of the most famous pieces of music for Halloween. In the poem Death appears at midnight and invites the deceased residents of a cemetery to join his dance. King and peasant alike dance together until sunrise. 

Danse Macabre, literally the "dance of death" in French is an artistic allegory of death. Medieval Europe was a harsh place to live with high mortality rates due to plague, poverty, and war. Even within highly stratified societies, death is the harbinger of equality. An art movement arose around the concept of memento mori, death comes for us all. Art, literature, and music surrounding the personified character "Death" and his dancing skeletons appeared throughout Western Europe with the danse macabre (France), totentanz (Germany), and the danza de la muerte (Spain). There are hundreds of pieces of art depicting dancing skeletons. For the most part, these weren't meant to be frightening but for artistically symbolic purposes that we will all eventually join Death and his eternal dance.

Our fragrance Danse Macabre is inspired by the representations in art and literature of the deceased being called forth by Death to rise from their graves for a dance of the dead in the living world. An allegorical reminder that life and death are always close at hand. The base of this fragrance is the full-bodied aroma of a fine French Merlot. The addition of luscious black cherries gives this fragrance a velvety-sweet top note. This darkly sophisticated fragrance is sure to nourish your macabre soul.


Fragrance notes: black cherry merlot

“Tap, tap, tap—Death rhythmically,
Taps a tomb with his heel,
Death at midnight plays a gigue,
Tap, tap, tap, on his violin.
The Winter wind blows, the night is dark,
The lime-trees groan aloud;
White skeletons flit across the gloom,
Running and leaping beneath their huge shrouds."
- The 1872 poem Danse Macabre by Henri Cazalis was set to music by composer Camille Saint-Saëns and is one of the most famous pieces of music for Halloween. In the poem Death appears at midnight and invites the deceased residents of a cemetery to join his dance. King and peasant alike dance together until sunrise. 

Danse Macabre, literally the "dance of death" in French is an artistic allegory of death. Medieval Europe was a harsh place to live with high mortality rates due to plague, poverty, and war. Even within highly stratified societies, death is the harbinger of equality. An art movement arose around the concept of memento mori, death comes for us all. Art, literature, and music surrounding the personified character "Death" and his dancing skeletons appeared throughout Western Europe with the danse macabre (France), totentanz (Germany), and the danza de la muerte (Spain). There are hundreds of pieces of art depicting dancing skeletons. For the most part, these weren't meant to be frightening but for artistically symbolic purposes that we will all eventually join Death and his eternal dance.

Our fragrance Danse Macabre is inspired by the representations in art and literature of the deceased being called forth by Death to rise from their graves for a dance of the dead in the living world. An allegorical reminder that life and death are always close at hand. The base of this fragrance is the full-bodied aroma of a fine French Merlot. The addition of luscious black cherries gives this fragrance a velvety-sweet top note. This darkly sophisticated fragrance is sure to nourish your macabre soul.

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Fragrance notes: black cherry merlot

“Tap, tap, tap—Death rhythmically,
Taps a tomb with his heel,
Death at midnight plays a gigue,
Tap, tap, tap, on his violin.
The Winter wind blows, the night is dark,
The lime-trees groan aloud;
White skeletons flit across the gloom,
Running and leaping beneath their huge shrouds."
- The 1872 poem Danse Macabre by Henri Cazalis was set to music by composer Camille Saint-Saëns and is one of the most famous pieces of music for Halloween. In the poem Death appears at midnight and invites the deceased residents of a cemetery to join his dance. King and peasant alike dance together until sunrise. 

Danse Macabre, literally the "dance of death" in French is an artistic allegory of death. Medieval Europe was a harsh place to live with high mortality rates due to plague, poverty, and war. Even within highly stratified societies, death is the harbinger of equality. An art movement arose around the concept of memento mori, death comes for us all. Art, literature, and music surrounding the personified character "Death" and his dancing skeletons appeared throughout Western Europe with the danse macabre (France), totentanz (Germany), and the danza de la muerte (Spain). There are hundreds of pieces of art depicting dancing skeletons. For the most part, these weren't meant to be frightening but for artistically symbolic purposes that we will all eventually join Death and his eternal dance.

Our fragrance Danse Macabre is inspired by the representations in art and literature of the deceased being called forth by Death to rise from their graves for a dance of the dead in the living world. An allegorical reminder that life and death are always close at hand. The base of this fragrance is the full-bodied aroma of a fine French Merlot. The addition of luscious black cherries gives this fragrance a velvety-sweet top note. This darkly sophisticated fragrance is sure to nourish your macabre soul.

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