Description

Scents of Time as a Company started when we originally contacted
RMS Titanic in Atlanta after reading in January 2001 that a complete
bag of perfumes had been found in the debris field of Titanic and
that when the submersible placed the bag on the mother ship it
literally smelled of roses! The bag’s story is as follows:

Adolphe Saalfeld originally hailed from near Leipzig in Germany, but
settled near Manchester in England. A chemist by trade, he diversified
into perfumery, and decided to seek his fortune in America, boarding
RMSTitanic with his bag of samples.
Adolphe travelled first class return ticket, numbered 19988 and
costing thirty pounds and ten shillings. for cabin C-106 aboard the
White Star liner. Here is a note from his diary:

“I just had an hour’s roaming about on this wonderful boat.
I liked my cabin very much – it’s just like a bed-sitting room and rather
large. They are still busy to finish the last things on board.”

Adolphe survived the sinking of Titanic, and was rescued by the
Carpathia some hours later on Lifeboat number three. But his leather
bag containing two wallets with over sixty phials of assorted
fragrances and essential oils, went two and a half miles down to the
Atlantic bottom.

Adolphe’s bag plunged to the ocean floor taking over ninety years to
be re-discovered. RMS Titanic Inc. were salvaging in the debris field
when the claw of the small submersible, which took four hours to
gain the ocean floor, grabbed a leather bag to bring to the surface.

In a secret warehouse location near Detroit the bag of samples were
examined and restored by a team from Eastern Michigan University,
and Scents of Time were called in to take over the recovery process by
sampling the phials.

Scents of Time brought this ocean treasure back home to the UK to
examine with sophisticated apparatus – gas layer chromatographs and a
mass spectrometer. A combination of the nose of an experienced perfumer
and the “aromaprint” thus captured allowed an exact copy of the aroma
of what we called “Rosa Maris”- the rose of the sea., which was tempered
a little for modern tastes without altering the aromatic senation.

“Our Star ship sped into the night for three decades in hopeful flight. A star named Gliese* was its goal. Positioned in the Libran fold its planet named 581d was marked for human colony a goldilocks for life we’re told. It’s not too hot and not too cold.
This third rock from a great red sun was where the fate of mankind hung
since life existed on this world
and rich perfume about it swirled
as fragrance from an Asterose
gave sweet contentment to the nose and now we need no more to roam
for we had found an Earthlike home.”

David Pybus Aromancer
*pronounced “GLEE ZA”

Night Star is a celebration of bouquet aromas
which has a floral heart consisting of rose
blended with violet and Lily of the Valley (Muguet)
broadened by citrus and herbal notes whilst
simultaneously deepened by an embracing
combination of woody notes with a suffusion
of powdery vanilla and Mayflower.

Created by perfumer Christopher Sheldrake,
formerly of Givaudan SA, now with Chanel.