'Silphium' Eau de Parfum

"Even if one just tastes it, at once arouses a humour throughout the body and has a very healthy aroma”

– Pedanius Dioscorides, c. 70 BC

Silphium was, at one point, the most valuable spice in the world – growing in a very limited area of the North African coast. Attempts to cultivate it elsewhere have always failed. Renowned as a spice, a perfume ingredient, and for its medicinal qualities, it was eventually harvested to extinction.

Stora Skuggan have attempted to recreate the scent of the greatest spice in antiquity, researching plants assumed to be related to Silphium and using aromachemicals to create an accord representing on surviving impressions of the plant.