Name: Flor Y Canto
Brand: Arquiste
Price: 125.00 USD
Availability: InStock

Top Notes

Mexican acacia
Marigold
Crushed leaf accents
Heart Notes

Tuberose absolute
Magnolia grandiflora
Red and white plumeria
Base Notes

Copal (Mexican incense)
Benzoin
Mexican vanilla bean

Intro

In Aztec Mexico, flowers were an august offering to gods and princes. Transporting you to a temple altar where heaps of flowers exude their intoxicating scent,  FLOR Y CANTO is a white floral fragrance with a subtle copal incense base.  Focusing on the highest quality natural essences and absolutes of five native Mexican flowers: Mexican tuberose, magnolia grandiflora, plumeria, marigold and wild acacia.
50 ml / 1.7 fl oz. Eau de Parfum
History

August, 1400, Tenochtitlan, Mexico. On the most fragrant festival in the Aztec calendar, the rhythm of drums palpitates as a wealth of flowers is offered on temple altars. Billowing clouds of Copal act as a backdrop to the intoxicating breath of Tuberose, Magnolia, Plumeria and the intensely yellow aroma of the sacred Marigold, Cempoalxochitl .
Developed with Rodrigo Flores Roux.

Description

Five Mexican flowers offered on temple altars believed by the Aztecs to be the intoxicating scent of Xochiquetzal, the goddess of beauty. Natural, opulent & explosive.

Eau de Parfum. Currently in size 50ml / 1.7 fl oz.
Our bottles are of the highest Italian quality with our signature ‘A’ engraved metal cap, as well as the newest technology for an invisible spray tube.

More

- In the Aztec language, a metaphor for poetry is “in Xochitl in Cuicatl” (Flor y Canto – Flower and Song), which exemplifies the importance of flora in Mexico. Xochitl, or “flower”, was used to refer to eloquent, elegant and well-used words.

- Two Aztec deities were closely associated with flora: Xochipili, the ‘Prince of Flowers’ was the god of summer. The exquisite body of his wife Xochiquetzal, was believed to be the source of all floral scents.

- The Aztec Gods received their offerings through fragrant smoke: White Copal, an aromatic tree resin used by Mesoamerican cultures as burned incense, acts as a cool, menthol backdrop to the rich floral scents.

- The velvety scent of Omixochitl or Mexican Tuberose is spiked by a warm-but-cold sweetness that was thought to attract benevolent spirits.

- Flowers and vegetables for the Mexico City market are still cultivated in Xochimilco, an area composed of floating gardens, known as chinampas, which dates from Aztec times.

Bio

– Caso, Alfonso, The Aztecs: People of the Sun , translated by Lowell Dunham, illustrated by Miguel Covarrubias; Norman: Oklahoma University Press, 1958.
– Velasco Lozano, Ana María L. & Nagao, Debra, Mitologia y Simbolismo de las Flores , “Arqueologia Mexicana” Magazine, Las Flores en el Mexico Prehispanico, Numero 78, Mexico City, 2006.
– Cañizares-Esguerra, Jorge, Puritan conquistadors: Iberianizing the Atlantic, 1550-1700, Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, 2006.

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