Voluptuous Eros Forest

Latin voluptuōsus, pleasurable — derived from voluptās (pleasure). As a color modifier, voluptuous implies a saturated-and-rich-and-curving-sensual quality, the deep-rich color of Rubens-and-Boucher baroque-and-rococo flesh-and-fabric tonality. Sits at the bold-and-saturated end of the grid, parallel to lush and plush in tone.

Greek Ἔρως, god-of-love-and-desire. As a color modifier, eros implies a winged-love-and-arrow-of-desire quality, the visual register of Praxiteles-Eros-and-Roman-Cupid hand-winged-love-and-arrow-of-desire Praxiteles-Eros-and-Roman-Cupid-and-Pompeii-fresco eros-and-winged-love-and-arrow-of-desire surfaces under Praxiteles-Eros-and-Roman-Cupid-and-Pompeii-fresco Hellenistic-and-Roman-Pompeii rose-and-myrtle-light. Sits at the modifier-and-myth end of the grid, parallel to zeus and hera in usage.

The dense canopy of a temperate or tropical woodland — oak, beech, pine, eucalyptus, mahogany — wherever leaves close above to filter the light below. Forest green refers to the average reflectance of a healthy mid-summer canopy seen from below: a saturated, slightly muted green with the matte finish of layered chlorophyll. Deeper than fern, cooler than olive, with the ecological weight of a word that has named every wooded biome on Earth.