TERRA FIRMA CANDLE

Fragrance notes: Vetiver / Neroli / Dirt Today terra firma is used to describe a kind of certainty, safety. Known as “dry land” in sailor’s parlance, the Latin translation is “solid earth”.  Ancient Roman mythology referred to Terra or Tellus (Greek: Gaia) as the personification of earth: literally and honorifically a woman. Ovid described Tellus as the location of growth, where Ceres (Greek: Demeter), the goddess of agriculture/fertility, was its cause. Demeter, whose grief over her daughter Persephone’s loss to the Underworld, caused/causes winter. The poet, Louise Glück wrote of this dynamic; “I think I can remember — being dead. Many times, in winter, — I approached Zeus. Tell me, I would ask him, — how can I endure the earth?”