Karasu

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THE COMPOSITIONCostus root, Siam wood, Hinoki, Smoldering paper, Cardamom In Japanese mythology, karasu tengu are powerful and vengeful spirits who live in the midst of deep forest s, often taking the appearance of crows or of wandering priests. Those brave enough may call upon them through prayer and incense-burning if they are lost, confused, or helpless. Apoteker Tepe’s Karasu combines some of the most traditional raw materials in kōdō, the Japanese incense ritual, to create a fragrance that expresses the spare, transcendent asceticism of a prayer rendered in smoke, dissipating in midair. "The asterhas flowered, itspale purplelike the color of smokerising from my reveries.A flock of crowsutterly motionlessturn into piecesof charcoal, as the flamesfrom the falling sun subside." — YOSANO AKIKO Part of the Apoteker Tepe Collection, by Holladay Saltz Show more