‘You are always on me, MT, mother of sparkling perfumes pungent with star jasmines’ wrote Pablo to his secret muse, in a quote that inspired the jasmine-scented candle wrapped with a reproduction of Guitare à la Main Blanche from 1927, where the initials ‘MT’ are clearly present as a graphic device. Three other scents — ginger, orange and amber — are associated with equally intimate artworks, from the contorted abstraction of the 1932 Acrobate in white relief against grey, to a barely discernable pencil sketch of a reclining nude (the former paired with ginger, the latter, amber).
The peculiarity of AMEN candles, and a design feature that seduced Ms. Picasso instantaneously, is their rejection of traditional packaging and all plastics in favour of a unique protective shell moulded from carbon negative mushroom waste. “In his 50.000 piece oeuvre, Pablo never used plastic as a medium,” said Diana, “Even though he experimented with every material and plastic was a new trendy material in the art world.”
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