M #2 Black March vies with Memory of Kindness as my favorite fragrance from CB I Hate Perfume. Memory of Kindness smells like early August; Black March, part of the Metamorphosis series, is what late March will smell like assuming all goes well (right now, we're blanketed in snow here). Perfumer Christopher Brosius was reportedly inspired by Stevie Smith's poem, Black March:
But I have seen his eyes, they are
As pretty and bright
As raindrops on black twigs
In March, and heard him say:I am a breath
Of fresh air for you, a change
By and by.Black March I call him
Because of his eyes
Being like March raindrops
On black twigs.
You can read the poem in its entirety at Memory and Desire….
