Bois de Mangrove
Dry roots and water-soaked wood: pineapple opens onto laurel, iris, leather, saffron and cedars in a portrait of mangrove wood.
Perfumer: Margaux Le Paih Guérin
Bois de Mangrove is named for a little-known wood that is nonetheless precious to the environment. Margaux Le Paih Guérin set out to give it its due. Le Paih Guérin took cues from the tree's physical form: its dry roots, and timber that seems to have drunk its fill of water.
The core is built from leather, saffron and iris facets, surrounded by aromatic and floral touches, laurel and lavender among them, to suggest the ecosystem around the trees. Pineapple comes first, a juicy, unexpected lift over the damp wood.
In the base, smoky cade joins Atlas and Virginia cedar, saffron, leather, white musks and mangrove wood itself. Dryness and wetness end up held inside the same piece of wood.
