DARK GALLEON

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Top Notes Malabar black pepperPersian saffronBlack leather Heart Notes Coffee absolute Sandalwood Myrrh Base Notes Frankincense Styrax Cade Intro Our most decadent perfumed candle: dark leather, heady spices and incense. Mysterious, almost naughty in its darkness, it conjures up a bounty of spice-filled trunks, and leather-filled armoirs inside the hull of a galleon traveling between Mexico, the Philipines and Japan. Inspired by our best-selling fragrance NANBAN. History September 1620, nighttime inside a merchant ship, Nagasaki port. Inside the pitch-dark hull of a spice galleon, the aroma of lacquered wooden armoires and trunks full of rare spice, incense and leather thickens the air with a dark redolence. Developed with Nicole Mancini and Rodrigo Flores-Roux. Description High-concentration luxury perfumed candle: 8.9 oz / 251 g. Estimated burning time: 55 to 60 hours. Hand poured in Canada Premium soy-blend wax100% cotton wickVegan & cruelty free *Candles can ship internationally. More - DARK GALLEON focuses on the moment of disembarkation when the merchant galleon arrives in Nagasaki, the South Island port city where the Spanish and Portuguese had set up camp for trade with the Japanese. - The pitch black hull of the galleon was saturated with the scent of spice barrels and trunks full of leather. The smokey notes of tar and cade wood give a mysterious, hypnotizing allure, like dying embers in a bonfire. Bio – Massarella, Derek, Japanese Travelers in Sixteenth-century Europe: A Dialogue Concerning the Mission of the Japanese Ambassadors to the Roman Curia (1590), Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., January 28, 2013. – Lidin, Olof G., Tanegashima – The Arrival of Europe in Japan.Routledge, 2002. – Moran, J.F., The Japanese and the Jesuits, Routledge, 2012. – Sakamoto Mitsuru et al., Nanban byobu shusei (Compendium of Nanban screens), Tokyo, Chuo Koron Bijutsu Shuppan, 2008. – Nelson, Thomas, Monumenta Nipponica: Studies on Japanese Culture, Past and Present, Volume 59, Issues 3-4, Sophia University, 2004. – Boxer, C.R. The Christian Century in Japan, 1549–1650, Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1951. (1993 reprint edition). – Marcouin, Francis and Keiko Omoto. Quand le Japon s’ouvrit au monde, Paris: Découvertes Gallimard, 1990. – Hayes, Derek, Historical atlas of the North Pacific Ocean: maps of discovery and scientific exploration, 1500–2000, Seattle, Washington: Sasquatch Books. 2001. – Annals of His Time: Don Domingo De San Anton Munon Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, Stanford University Press 2006. – Sotelo, Luis, De ecclesiae Iaponicae statu relatio – Endo, Shusaku, The Samurai, New Directions Publishing Corporation, Reprint edition, april 1997. (A slightly fictional account of Hasekura’s expedition). – The World and Japan – Tensho and Keicho missions to Europe 16th – 17th century “世界と日本ー天正・慶長の使節, 1995, Sendai City Museum (Japanese) – Date Masamune’s Mission to Rome in 1615 国宝「慶長遣欧使節関係資料, Catalogue of Sendai City Museum, 2001. (Japanese) Image Show more