What Satan's Wife Would Wear to the Opening of the MOMA

This, my friends, is a batflower. I first saw them at the Conservatory of Flowers in San Francisco. If you think the photos are strange and wonderful, you should see the blooms in real life. The ones in SF are an irridescent green and purple, a color combination you would swear was unearthly, unnatural even, until you actually saw it for real in nature.



I immediately imagined them in a sartorial context, something lush, romantic, diabolically seductive. Of course, Madame Lucifer would need a scent to match, and from what I've read (apparently it's not so easy to obtain unless you order it on the internet) that perfume would be Rose Poivree.

Which is how I came up with the title for this post to begin with . . . in winter 2007 the NYT style magazine ran a piece on civet and other exotic perfume ingredients. The writer, Chandler Burr, opined that of the civet scents on the market today, the most extreme might be Rose Poivree, created by The Different Company. According the Burr the scent is "Pungent with decay . . . unsettling and gorgeous, the perfume that Satan's wife would wear to an opening at MoMa."

Along with a strategically placed Batflower.







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