Midnight Poppy Perfume

A shadowed love-mystery of brooding opium poppies, dark velvet rosewood, poetry stained with blackberry wine, ghostly white santal, midnight-black ebony. "At night in the garden of poppies,Her lips crushing the bloom From the fairest flower there. Love drunk with the wine She has drawn from the poppy’s heart:Love with death at her breasts. Love at the end of night Shaded by drooping poppies;Love with scattered hair And strange stains on her lips. Love with death at her breasts." - Elsa Gidlow Art: "Death the Bride," Thomas Cooper Gotch, 1895