Look closely: the paired wawletters form the contour of a vase. From it rises a tulip, long associated with refinement and cultivated beauty in Ottoman symbolism. At the crest, the curvature suggests a butterfly at rest, sitting in peace.
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\n\u2018And your Lord glorify\u2019 \u2013\u0648\u0631\u0628\u0643 \u0641\u0643\u0628\u0631
\nThe design is effectively a muthanna \u2013 a mirrored composition I acquired in 2010. I remember carrying the framed piece through Atat\u00fcrk Airport that winter, balancing it with my luggage and walking what felt like miles to reach the gate. It became a quiet reference point for me; a study in elegance, restraint, and precision \u2013 qualities that naturally found their way into my perfumes.
\nMost mirrored compositions repeat a phrase symmetrically. This one does not. The verse appears only once, yet reads from right to left and from left to right, sharing a single fa at its center. A palindrome, it resolves into itself when reversed. Such a composition is exceptionally rare in modern Thuluth.
\nI chose this piece for Palindrosebecause it reflects the same idea that defines the perfume.
\nOne sentiment, read both ways, with the conjunction suspended at the center.
\nIn olfactory terms, Palindrose reads Rose \u2194\ufe0f Oud \u2194\ufe0f Rose. And not just some lonesome rose\u2026
\nIt opens with a flash of citrus torn open by hand, bergamot and tangerine spraying into green Sichuan and crushed ginger. A cool ribbon of spearmint flashes through. There\u2019s something almost frosty in the first breath, a charged brightness that smells like an elegant rose fest.
\nAfghani rose enters first \u2013 bright, white, pristine. Persian rose follows with its silky profile, fuller in body, less sharp. Turkish rose adds its red lift and classical poise, its rouge gliding above oud and frankincense. Japanese rugosas ooze out everywhere, while Ta\u2019ifi rose arrives later with that signature lemony radiance grown under the desert sun.<\/p>\n
An ensemble of different frankincense varieties \u2013 bright, smoky, mineral, almost saline \u2013 morphs the roses into a gorgeous, resinous bloom. You can smell the luban curling, the faint citrus peel bitterness riding the edge of agarwood incense. Green vetiver, angelica, and lovage add a green bitterness that smells medicinal in an ancient sense.
\nThen King Super pours in \u2013 not the polished idea of Malaysian oud, but old-growth Malinau gaharu, resin-heavy and humid. Beneath the surface, a camphor-laced greenness hums quietly, its Terengganu-like resinous purple-blue tinged with a faint camphoric shimmer. There\u2019s a faint wild-berry nuance that\u2019s not sugary, but fermented-sap sweet emerging from aged oleoresin. In this composition, King Super doesn\u2019t overshadow the roses, but deepens them.
\nPear and lychee shimmer at the margins \u2013 not sugary, but on par with the brightness of the roses \u2013 like a fruity glaze over a thousand petals. And beneath it all, the animalics murmur. Civet, muskrat, hyraceum, not loud, not crude, but intimate and faintly feral \u2013 exalting the sensual pulse of the roses.
\nThe effect mirrors the calligraphic palette: rose into oud, oud through rose, without beginning or end.
\nPlaques are custom-made. A limited number is currently available and will ship immediately on a first-come, first-served basis. Subsequent orders will ship as each plaque is completed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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