34 Bohemian Cafes: 8ml Travel Sprayer

NOTES Top: Juniper Branch, Pink Peppercorn Middle: Finished Cedarwood, Warm Leather Objects, Ambient Rose Base: Tobacco Smoke, Sticky Woods, Subterranean Musks, Iris I think the poet is the last person who is still speaking the truth when no one else dares to. I think the poet is the first person to begin the shaping and visioning of the new forms and the new consciousness when no one else has begun to sense it; I think these are two of the most essential human functions. -Diane di Prima The Beat Generation was conceived uptown and Beatniks were born in the Village. With Columbia University abutting the jazz clubs of Harlem, the would-be founding fathers of the Beats, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Willam Bourroughs, were in attendance of both sites in the late 1940’s. Two coastlines of Bohemia coalesced where blossoming poet Kerouac found himself influenced by the burgeoning musical language of Bebop Jazz musicians Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Kenny Clarke, Charlie Christ