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namitha · 2 years

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Every leaf speaks bliss to me.

🌿 Emily Bronte

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#emily bronte #poetry #poetry quotes #leaf #my click 📸#book quotes #books & libraries #words #my photography #sky leaves and sea #arabian sea #arabian coast

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prosperity-post · 1 month

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Desert Nomads ~~~ {2}{R}

Creature — Human Nomad

Desertwalk

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to Desert Nomads by Deserts.

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Illustrated by Christopher Rush

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From 'Arabian Nights', here is Desert Nomads. It's not on the Reserved List, yet it's never been reprinted. The card from the 'Arabian Nights' set currently sits at $4.65. Here's a proxy for you. You're welcome.

#mtg #magic the gathering #card printings #arabian nights #desert nomads #proxy card #fantasy card game #wotc #wizards of the coast

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gujjukathiyawadi · 2 years

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गुजरात के पास पहुंची परमाणु बम से लैस अमेरिकी पनडुब्‍बी, मची सनसनी, निशाने पर चीन या पाकिस्‍तान?

अमेरिका ने दुनियाभर में बढ़ रहे तनाव के बीच अरब सागर में गुजरात और पाकिस्तान की जलसीमा के पास अपनी महाविनाशक परमाणु पनडुब्बी को तैनात किया है। यही नहीं अमेरिका ने परमाणु बम से लैस मिसाइलों को ले जाने में सक्षम पनडुब्बी ‘यूएसएस वेस्ट वर्जीनिया’ को तैनात करने की खबर का सार्वजनिक रूप से ऐलान भी किया है। विश्लेषकों के मुताबिक अमेरिका का यह ऐलान अपने आप में बहुत ही दुर्लभ मामला है। अमेरिका अपनी परमाणु…

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faceofgujarat · 11 months

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#Best Beaches in Gujarat #Mandvi Beach #Gujarat’s West Coast #Tithal Beach #Shivrajpur Beach Dwarka #Gopnath Beach #coastal landscapes #Arabian Sea #sandy stretches

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djevilninja · 11 months

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The innovating music and the party-making beats, We are creators of moving your feet. We designed the beat with computers in mind, To regulate sensation, to repossess your mind.

Arabian Prince & The Sheiks feat Dr. Dre - Innovative Life

#arabian prince and the sheiks #arabian prince #dr. dre #music #hip hop #electro #80s #old school #west coast #compton #innovative life

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rooksamoris · 7 days

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they did jamil's story so dirty, so im here to do him justice. honestly, a lot of my depictions of him come from various pieces of arabic literature that criticize the caste system/social hierarchy as a whole. a lot of our most romantic literature comes from people who could not be in love with their muses due to social/ethnic hierarchies. as such, a lot of the writing that i have done of jamil is inspired by those conflicts and just arabic poetry in general.

his story is very underdeveloped and the fandom treats him horribly. that isn't controversial, at least i don't think so. there's a lot of orientalism in the work of twisted wonderland when it comes to the scarabia duo, as well as leona kingscholar too, so im just doing my best to rectify that via sharing bits of arab culture and history through him and kalim as well, soon enough. i wanna do with same with leona, hopefully. im not east african, but i am yemeni and it takes like one-two hours in a boat from the coast of aden to get to east africa.

recently, i have been looking into studying swahili. btw, swahili comes from the arabic word meaning "coast" but it is a bantu language. due to their proximity to the coast and the arabian peninsula, the languages and cultures have mixed a lot (look into socotra island). all that rambling aside, i love the scarabia duo and leona. they deserved better from the creators as well as the fandom.

#🩷 — chats with amora #💓 — quick thoughts #twisted wonderland #jamil viper #leona kingscholar #kalim al asim #twst x reader #orientalism #twisted wonderland x reader #jamil viper x reader #kalim al asim x reader #leona kingsholar x reader

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crusera · 14 days

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The Sultan, they said, was a good man. Soft, quickly moved to tears. Out of compassion, he bought the freedom of a Christian woman's stolen daughter. Even Walther von der Vogelweide, the minnesinger in distant Germany, praised the "mildness" of the powerful ruler in the Orient, whose name has a good reputation in the West: Saladin, a righteous man.

He was a man who always kept his word, even to his enemies.

He let his subjects drag him to court, because God's laws applied equally to everyone. Also for him, the ruler who managed to do what no one had ever managed before: to unite the Islamic world of the Middle East after centuries of discord and to wrest Jerusalem, the holy city of the Muslims, from the Christians in 1187.

His name translates as "righteousness of faith", and Saladin is indeed a devout Muslim. Nevertheless, after his conquest of the Holy Land, he allowed the Christians and Jews there to continue praying to their God. This is another reason why, more than half a millennium later, Western Enlightenment thinkers would make him the epitome of the tolerant ruler.

But this al-Malik an-Nasir Salah ad-Din Abu'l-Muzaffer Yusuf ibn Ayyub ibn Shadi, known as Saladin for short, also had other sides.

He could be treacherous, vile and mean. He did not shy away from murder. Nevertheless, this man fascinated his contemporaries. He became one of the most revered rulers of the Islamic world and the most important opponent of the Crusaders.

Saladin was born in 1138 in Tikrit (in present-day Iraq), the son of a Kurdish officer. During his political career, Saladin was the first to bring Egypt's army under his control.

Saladin, a Sunni, now founds two universities where theology is taught according to Sunni theology - a signal that he is on the side of the population. He also abolished a number of taxes that contradicted the Koran and the teachings of the Prophet.

Saladin's subsequent conquests shock the Christian world. By 1174, his power extended from North Africa to the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula. In 1186, he ruled from the Nile to the Tigris.

At the height of his power, the Sultan even dreamed of taking the Holy War to Europe, conquering Rome - and putting the Pope in chains.

The Crusaders conquered Jerusalem in 1099 and held it until Saladin besieged it in 1187 and handed it over to the Ayyubid dynasty, a Muslim sultanate that ruled the Middle East at the beginning of the 12th century.

Saladin wanted to recapture the city, which had previously been ruled by Muslims.

For Muslims, Jerusalem is a place where important events in the life of Jesus and other important personalities took place. It is also the place where the Prophet Mohammed ascended to heaven according to the traditional interpretation of the Koran and other texts.

In Sunni Islam, Jerusalem is the third holiest city after Mecca and Medina. Muslims believe that Muhammad was brought to Jerusalem during his night journey (Isra and Mi'raj).

The name Jesus is mentioned twenty-five times in the Holy Qur'an, often in the form 'Isa ibn Maryam, which means "Jesus, son of Mary". In the Quran, he is given the unique title "Messiah" (al-masih in Arabic), which means "anointed one". He is considered one of many prophets from the lineage of the Prophet Ibrahim, or Abraham (peace be upon him). Many Muslim traditions regard it as an ideal example of spirituality. Unlike Christians, who generally believe in a triune God, Muslims believe that Jesus was a great prophet who was to lead mankind on the straight path of monotheism and obedience to God (Allah).

When Jerusalem also fell, two kings and an emperor set off for the Holy Land with their armies from 1189 onwards. One of the monarchs is King Richard I of England. Even before the armed pilgrimage, he had already earned himself an honourable name: "Lionheart."

Saladin lies in wait for the Christians in the forests of Arsuf near the Mediterranean coast. But King Richard of England had anticipated the attack; on 7 September 1191, his troops won a clear victory. Nevertheless, the Muslim army is still strong enough to block the road to Jerusalem.

Saladin's reconquest of Jerusalem in 1187 prompted Pope Gregory VIII to organize the Third Crusade. From 1189 to 1192, Saladin lost Acre and Jaffa and was defeated in the field at Arsūf. The Crusaders retreated to Europe without seizing Jerusalem, but Saladin's military reputation had been damaged. He died in 1193.

#learn about history #studyblr #religion #religious studies #crusaders #history #oriental #history of crusade #Saladin #king baldwin iv #kingdom of heaven #history of Jerusalem #Islam #christianity #history of Religion #teaching #books #booklr

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calabria-mediterranea · 3 months

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Juniperus phoenicea L. subsp. turbinata Guss on the Southern Ionian coast of Calabria, Italy.

This species is found throughout the Mediterranean and in the Arabian Peninsula.

Photo by Marcello Anastasi

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tylermileslockett · 1 year

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South of Greece, across the Mediterranean Sea, exists an older race of Amazons Led by the Amazon Queen Myrina in the desert lands of Libya of North Africa. The Queen conquers surrounding tribes with her 30,000 Amazon foot soldiers, 3,000 cavalry, and shields and armor made of giant snakeskin. Their horseback archery skills were unmatched, and were masters of the Parthian Shot, (hitting targets behind, while riding away).

Invading the lands of the Atlantians, Queen Myrina treated the conquered cities savagely, slaughtering the boys and men, and enslaving the women and children, until the neighboring cities accepted Myrina as ruler. Myrina also defeat another neighboring race of warriors called the Gorgons, who Medusa later leads against Perseus. She continues her quest into Egypt, befriending the god king Horus, son of Isis. Journeying East she conquers the Arabians and Syrians and founds cities along the way. Myrina is finally killed in battle fighting Thracian and Phrygian warriors, and the Amazons, suffering high casualties, are forced to retreat back to Libya in defeat.

This episode of North African Amazons comes from Diodorus Siculus, in his book “The Library of History,” (1st century B.C.) Diodorus seems to be an outlier from other ancient authors in placing Amazons in North Africa. In addition, the Atlantian civilization he mentions is not the lost mythical island of Atlantis made famous by Plato, which authors place in the Atlantic ocean, just west of the Pillars of Herakles (strait of Gibraltar).

The Thracians, said to derive from a son of Ares, were a race which thrived on the west coast of the black sea in modern day Turkey and Bulgaria, and they were known as allies of the trojans at Troy. The Phrygians resided in Anatolia and the Southern Balkans, and were said to have fought with King Priam of troy against the amazons. King Midas, cursed with his golden touch, was a Phrygian king.

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mapsontheweb · 5 months

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Religious Distribution in the Subdivisions (Nahiyas) of the Mount Lebanon Emirate in the 1540s according to Ottoman Tax Registries.

by u/R120Tunisia:

The map wasn't made by me. The original post is here though I modified it by adding a small graph that shows the overall percentages below.

The map uses various books that summarize the results of the tax registries as a source.

In case you might be wondering : "Wasn't Lebanon Christian majority ?" well at that point, no. The largest religious group at the time would have been the Druze followed by Shias. Note the Druze were technically part of the Muslim millet and didn't pay the Jizya so they were included in the Muslim category at the time.

The Druze though were far from united. They originated from the foothills of the Anti-Lebanon Mountains and were settled by the Ayyubids and Mamluks over the years along the central Levantine coast to guard from Crusader naval incursions and raids. In the absence of crusader threats, the various Druze clans started to fight among each other, with a divide appearing between Qaysi Druze clans (who claimed descent from Northern Arabian tribes) and Yamani Druze clans (who claimed descent from Southern Arabian tribes). The former were supported by local Sunnis and Shias while the latter had the support of local Ottoman authorities.

The Qaysis eventually gained the upper hand following the Battle of Ain Dara and most of the Yamani Druze were expelled from Lebanon with most moving into what is today Jabal al-Druze which was sparsely populated at the time (this was how Syria got most of its Druze as well). Meanwhile, the Qaysi clans that prevailed started to invite Christian peasants from the Mt Lebanon area as well as from all over the Levant into the area to repopulate the towns and villages left empty by the Yamanis and to become tenant farmers under them. These new immigrants were mainly Maronite but also Orthodox and Melkite to a lesser degree.

This Christian immigration would increase following the takeover of the Shihab dynasty, a Sunni family from the Anti-Lebanon Mountains, following the death of the last Druze Qaysi Ma'nid Emirs. The new dynasty were in frequent conflict with Druze landlords so to build a power base in the area they started to support the Maronite clergy and created local conditions friendly to Christian life (some Shihab Emirs would even convert to Christianity).

And finally two other factors : Christians tended to be poorer and rural (especially Maronites), and the rural poor tend to have higher birthrates, and at the time, there was a split among the local Orthodox population of the Levant that caused many to join the new Melkite Catholic Church leading to many members leaving their communities for sectarian reasons and moving into Lebanon to create new communities out of scratch (most notables of these is Zahlé, Lebanon's third largest city and the largest Christian majority town in the Middle East, which continues to have a Melkite majority to this day).

Tl;dr : in the late 17th and early 18th century following inter-Druze conflict and the takeover of the Shihab dynasty, a demographic shift occurred in what is today Lebanon that led to a huge decrease in the Druze population and an increase of the Christian population due to immigration (to re-populate areas emptied by the Druze who left and trigged by both the local conditions in the area as well as theological disputes within the Christian communities of the Levant) as well as higher birthrates, eventually leading to Christians becoming a slight majority in the area.

#maps #lebanon #16th century #religions

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namitha · 2 years

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Every time I walk close to the ocean, it liberates me in a way I can't even imagine. The noise of waves, the smell of ocean water, and infinite possibilities.

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#feel the ocean #arabian coast #arabian sea #my click 📸#soul searching #sea photography #🌊🌊#tuesday 16 august

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prosperity-post · 11 months

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Now that we have a few months until the next Standard set, let's talk about what you want to see. 'The Brothers War' was a retelling of the story first told in 'Antiquities'.

#mtg #magic the gathering #magic story #magic lore #expansion set #story retold #past revisited #Arabian Nights #Antiquities #Legends #The Dark #Fallen Empires #Homelands #fantasy #tcg #gaming #wotc #wizards of the coast

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srbachchan · 11 months

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DAY 5593

Jalsa, Mumbai June 10, 2023 Sat 11:49 PM

Birthday - EF - Dharmesh Kumar Patel .. Chitra Sinha Sunday, 11 June ... may this auspicious day be filled with love and greetings ..from the Ef ... 🌹

The worry is not what the actual worry is at times .. the worry is the worrisome worry of the worry .. if you may know what I mean .. and the trouble is that it enters the head and stays there .. tumbling about in raptures , on its dimensions and its recurring efforts it is making in, destructing the thoughts of the mind ..

Ruddy worry !!

Leave it aside dear fellow .. we shall worry with it when it is time ..

AAAHHHHHHH .. the scenario behind where I sit adds additional sound .. that of rain .. and I rush to the window to open and check .. it is indeed .. a reprieve from the sweltering heat of the day these days , much passed the time of the onset of the Monsoon .. which delivers its thunder and lightening by the 6th of June normally .. instead a dreaded Cyclone meanders just outside the Mumbai coast in the Arabian Sea , and threatens to become severe within hours ..

Heavens .. !!!

And I work ..

.. stuck at the board .. and about to be checkmated ..

.. driving off ..

... and the study of the work as the lights and the camera adjust itself .. pages and pages and pages .. to read to understand and remember ..

.. and a look of approval form the boss - the Director

.. this one does not comply with the mood does it .. a bit harsh ..

.. and thoughtful .. contemplating the worry ..

one draws to an end and the other begins soon after .. and another and another .. on film .. but soon too on the seat that warms .. and the pre eps of that be initiated to bring what is generally talked about as ‘change’ ..

yes change is a potent factor these days .. and one envelops it with the time and place of its reckoning .. irrespective ..

Love all of you .. despite ..❤️

Amitabh Bachchan

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bonpocalypse · 9 months

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can you please tell me your headcanons for the nationalities of the twst boys pretty pretty please 🥺 also any other headcanons you have!!!

I love love love nationality headcanons, they're so fun to think of!! A reminder that these are my headcanons, I'm not here to start arguments. If anything does come across as offensive/innapropriate please let me know! I'll gladly fix it :)

For the most part, I based the Twst Character's nationalities off of where their stories take place (I'm not all that skilled in headcanons, apologies!!)

Alright, going in dorm order here:

Heartslabyul

Riddle Rosehearts: Icelandic/Britsh

I have him as Icelandic purely because of LeafSheep's "Begin at the Beginning," the King Said!! Nordic Heartslabyul has my heart. and ofc since Heartslabyul is based on Alice in Wonderland, he's half-British in my headcanons

Ace Trappola: British

Alice in Wonderland :)

I don't have much to say about Ace, I kinda don't think about him all that much

Deuce Spade: Irish

In coming up with nationality headcanons, I wanted to explore more areas in the British Isles for the Heartslabyul students and eventually decided on Deuce being Irish! I had more reasonings but its 5 am and I cannot think for the love of me.

Cater Diamond: American with English/German heritage

I see myself in Cater. He's one of my highest kins, so he's 100% from West Coast USA. It also makes a lot of sense he'd be American looking at how similar some nations in the Twisted Wonderland universe are to nations in our own world! Pyroxene is really similar to the United States from what I've researched, and Cater's valley accent in the English version of the game really hits the mark :)

As for his heritage, he's English because of Alice in Wonderland and German because I feel it fits him very well

Trey Clover: British

I don't think about Trey often enough sorry :(((

I love him though he's so silly

Savanaclaw

Leona Kingscholar: Kenyan

The Lion King takes place in the Kenya area, and so I put him there!

Jack Howl: American with Kenyan/French heritage

Another Pyroxien!

Kenyan because Savanaclaw was based on the Lion King and that's set in Kenya

French because I have a sneaking suspicion Jack is based on the wolves from Beauty and the Beast

Ruggie: South African

Ruggie was hard to find a headcanon for, but I eventually just took someone else's headcanon that said he is South African

Octavinelle

Azul Ashengrotto: Italian/French/Danish

All come from where the Little Mermaid is set in both the movie form and the Hans Christian Andersen form. The movie itself was set in the Mediterranean Sea, and I headcanon Azul's family to be from around the Nice, France area of the Mediterranean

Danish comes into play from the original source material for The Little Mermaid and the fact that the Coral Sea in Twst gets cold. Also to note, the Coral Sea on the map of Twisted Wonderland is close to the coast of the Queendom of Roses, which is pretty far north!

Jade and Floyd Leech: Danish

Putting these two together because twins

Pretty much the same reasonings as Azul, the book's settings and the Coral Sea :)

Scarabia

Kalim Al-Asim: Saudi Arabian

I'm going to be so honest, I don't think about Scarabia like... at all. So for Kalim, I'm going straight out of where Aladdin is supposed to be set

That also came as a problem, because the movie has a habit of mashing Middle Eastern cultures together. Though I did find that the movie takes place in the Arabian Desert which narrows where Aladdin was filmed to a myriad of countries, one of which is Saudi Arabia

I decided to go with Saudi Arabia since a majority of the desert does reside within that country.

Jamil Viper: Saudi Arabian/South Asian

Same thing as for my headcanons with Kalim, and I got the South Asian headcanon from a mutual on TikTok

Pomefiore

Vil Schoenheit: American with German heritage

Hollywood star here, folks!

German heritage because of Snow White's setting :)

Epel Felmier: Finnish

Ok for this headcanon I went off of the Harveston event

(hey future Bon edit here when its not 5 am and running off of no sleep)

Rook Hunt: Australian

This headcanon is for shits and giggles

It's a running joke between me and my friend that Rook is not French and is faking the accent to sound more "beautiful"

I don't know why we chose Australia specifically but it came to fruition

He can't speak proper French he's literally calling Vil the King of Fish

Ignihyde

Idia and Ortho Shroud: Greek

Hercules is set in Greece!

Diasomnia

Malleus Draconia: French

For Diasomnia I went off of movie settings once again, and Sleeping Beauty is heavily implied to be set in France!

I really feel like I should explain more but that's really most of my headcanons for them, where their movies are set

Silver: French

Silver is tough to pin down since we don't know if he's even originally from the Briar Valley, but I went with French as well

Sebek Zigvolt: French/German

(Bon please please please come back to this)

Lilia Vanrouge: French

I actually have so many nationality headcanons on this dude its not even funny

I imagine him as French, Romanian, and Dutch

And for funnies:

Royal Sword (and Rollo) (excluding the dwarves)

Neige LeBlanche: American with German/Finnish Heritage

Che'nya: British/Russian

Rollo Flamm: French

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djevilninja · 1 year

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The Arabian Prince is as strange as can be, Living his life in Pyramid City. Swinging in the tomb is how he gets his fix; He gets a natural purple high on a backwards mix.

Arabian Prince - Strange Life

#arabian prince #music #hip hop #electro #80s #old school #groove #west coast #compton #strange life

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odoroussavourssweet · 11 months

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Perfumes as Biomes

arctic

Tom Ford Soleil Neige

bergamot, white flowers, benzoin

actually somehow does smell like sun on snow!

alpine

Tauer Perfumes L’Air des Alpes Suisses

ambergris, fir, pine, lavender, tonka

herbal earth and bright cool skies

beach

Heeley Sel Marin

salt, seawater, seaweed

sand, sun, salt

boreal forest

Caron Yatagan

pine, artemisia, castoreum

crisp north-woods conifers and muddy boots

bush

Zoologist Koala

eucalyptus, honey, musk

a glowing eucalyptus grove

chaparral

Oriza LeGrand Peau d’Espagne

leather, verbena, carnation

cowboys, sun, dusty herbs

deciduous forest

Guerlain Vetiver

vetiver, bergamot, tobacco, oakmoss

mossy forest floor

desert

Tauer Perfumes Attar AT

leather, labdanum, sandalwood

bone-dry Arabian sands

garrigue

Parfums d’Empire Corsica Furiosa

tomato leaf, grass, mastic

blazing sun and dusty scrub

jungle

Neela Vermeire Ashoka

fig, sandalwood, lotus, incense

shady juicy trees

Mediterranean coast

Hermes Un Jardin en Mediterranee

cypress, fig, bergamot, orange blossom

sun, citrus, gnarled trees, sea

prairie

Yohji Homme

juniper, licorice, sage

big sky country

temperate rainforest

Papillon Perfumes Spell 125

pine, olibanum, ambergris

foggy misty conifers

tropical rainforest

DS & Durga DS

frangipani, lotus, oud

bright blooms and wet earth

#perfume #fragrance

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