The Scent of Love

Commonly referred as the ring of a dove, the black ring around the back of the neck doves has inspired many poets of Islamic literature, symbolizing a love chain worn around the neck and never taken off until death. Inspired by the book The Dove’s Neck ring written in 1207, the collection contains five different love themes, just as in the book. Melie tells the themes of love and uses the scents reminding love in her first collection, The Scent of Love. The collection includes perfume bottle pendants that come with a miniature funnel to fill in the perfume of your loved one. These tailor-made pendants are made by craftsman using the gemstones of your choice.

As inspired by the book The Dove’s Neck-ring, perfume bottle pendants are designed using a dove, symbolizing the holy spirit. The ring on the neck of the dove symbolizes the love chain worn around the neck. Writer says that pure spirits meet each other beforehand and claims that the lovers unknowingly strives to find one another and lust after each other. These pure spirits will face a lot of obstacles before they reunite and they are surrounded by fears in the mortal world. For the writer, if the spirit can overcome these obstacles, it would certainly find mutual and immortal love. Designed with inspiration from this story, the collection contains 18 carats golden perfume bottle necklaces, depicting a spiritual journey made for immortal love.

The Swans in Love perfume bottle necklace symbolizes the two spirits looking for and finding each other. Female and male swans connected to each other by an eternal love chain symbolizing eternal love. Female swan is crowned with an emerald diadem, and the black gemstones in the eyes of the two swans symbolize the insignificance of physical appearance in love. The design of the necklace is inspired from the writings of the poet. He writes, One can truly love one person at once. The heart is a single thing, just like the mind. Whether she is far away or close, the heart falls for a single person. In 2016, the Swans in Love perfume bottle necklace has been granted the famous A Design Award in Jewelry, category in the A Design Award and Competition, one of the most prestigious design competitions in the world.

The Meran necklace tells us another story with the snake, the symbol of immortality and healing, surrounding it. The snake embellished with diamonds, rubies and the bell on the tip of the necklace whispers a passionate love. The writer says that love can untie even the hardest knots, softens the cruel hearts, empowers the weak. It makes the heart let go off all of its taboos. The snake surrounding the perfume bottle symbolizes the love embracing the soul. Edna, another perfume bottle necklace in the collection, symbolizes the earth. Edna, meaning the world and designed by inspiration from the earth symbolizes that the world turns only around the loving and the beloved ones when someone falls in love. The Edna perfume bottle necklace is embellished with diamond, the symbol of immortal love, emerald; the symbol of unconditional love and sapphire, the symbol of loyalty. Ibn Hazm, the writer, knows that his book would be condemned because of the mentality in his era. Contrary to his contemporaries, he writes about the love towards the created rather than the Creator and adds, Love is neither denied by religion, nor it is forbidden by the law. Because the hearts are in the hands of God.