Exotic Perfume

Charles Baudelaire & Cyril Scott * Track #28 On The Flowers of Evil (translated by Cyril Scott)

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Charles Baudelaire

1909

Exotic Perfume by Charles Baudelaire (Ft. Cyril Scott)

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Charles BaudelaireCyril Scott

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This poem is one which inspired Gustave Charpentier’s ‘Les Fleurs du mal / poésies de Charles
Baudelaire ; musique de Gustave Charpentier’.

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When, with closed eyes, on a hot afternoon,
The scent of thine ardent breast I inhale,
Celestial vistas my spirit assail;
Caressed by the flames of an endless sun.

A langorous island, where Nature abounds
With exotic trees and luscious fruit;
And with men whose bodies are slim and astute,
And with women whose frankness delights and astounds.

By thy perfume enticed to this region remote,
A port I see, laden with mast and with boat,
Still wearied and torn by the distant brine;

While the tamarisk-odours that dreamily throng
The air, round my slumberous senses intwine,
And mix, in my soul, with the mariners' song.

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