Hylonome

Hylonome is part of our CENTAURS IN LOVE diptych. Discover her mate, Cyllarus, here. 

“Many of his race courted him, but one, Hylonome, won him, none lovelier, among the female centaurs, in the deep forests. She alone held Cyllarus’s affections, by endearments, by loving and admitting love; and by her appearance, as far as those limbs allow its cultivation. She bathed her face twice a day in the spring that fell from the woods, on the heights near Pagasae, twice dipped her body in the stream. She would wear only selected skins of wild beasts that became her, over her shoulder or across her left flank. Their love was equally shared. They wandered the mountainsides together, rested at the same time in caves: and now they had both come to the palace of the Lapiths, and both fought fiercely.” Metamorphoses, Ovid

COLORS: Spring Moss Green, Soft Honey Gold, Pale Iris Cream, Forest Resin, Misted Stone
EMOTIONS: Devotion, Grace, Composure, Harmony, Tenderness
KEY NOTES: Bitter Green Herbs, Cardamom, Jasmine, Iris, Rosemary, Frankincense, Honey, Musk, Green Resin

Perfumer’s Note: “Hylonome is a warm, flittering pastoral fragrance that is built within the Whitaker family, designed to be the perfect companion for her Chypre partner, Cyllarus.  She has a bitter-green herbal opening that cracks with golden cardamom spice, giving way to a narcotic jasmine-iris heart through which dry rosemary narrates a journey toward sacred frankincense and golden honey. The base splits into two stories: warm golden skin for the room, green resin for the intimate. Structurally engineered using the Onycha Method for a fragrance that grows more beautiful over time.” Joseph Erwin