Iman's tribute to David Bowie is a fragrant ode to their life together

The bottle is like stacked stones, a nod to the cairns Iman has been building on her land to sort out her grief-stricken thoughts

As the calendar year wanes, several cultures mark a day of the dead, an all souls’ day or some other form of mourning ritual that allows for memory and forgetting. In Hinduism, an annual shraddha ceremony in honour of a dead ancestor is generally on the anniversary of their passing.

One of the more remarkable modern expressions of grief has to be supermodel Iman’s fragrant homage to her late husband David Bowie and their nearly quarter-century relationship.

Iman’s perfume, Love Memoir, has subtle notes of her life with Bowie. It’s in a box with an illustration of her watercolour of a sunset in upstate New York where they lived privately and happily. “The words inside the bottle are words I’ve been writing about love,” Iman recently told ‘The New York Times’. The bottle itself is shaped like two stacked stones, which evoke the cairns she has been building in th…