Tuesday, August 28, 2007

kypros



Kypros is an ancient Greek perfume mentioned by Theophrastus . It contained cardamon and a sweet-scented material called aspalathus which had first been steeped in sweet wine. It is used by men and was used to counter lassitude. -Nigel Groom, The New Perfume Handbook



It is times like these that I feel my thoughts are pressed like leaves between pages of the texts I read.