Baan Suan
A summer garden of sweet-sour green mango, jasmine and sandalwood.
Perfumer: Sakul Pawasuttikul
Grandma's garden in summer: jasmine filling the air, green mangoes picked from a tree heavy with fruit, a light breeze crossing the wooden deck in front of the house. The memory is reduced to three materials.
The mango is Kieow Sawoey, a Thai variety, used here as green fruit. It brings the sweet-and-sour smell of firm flesh, which is distinct from the sharp greenness of mango leaf. Jasmine lays its dense, sweet floral tone over that tartness, and the acidity keeps the flower from feeling heavy.
Sandalwood sits underneath, smooth and slightly milky, recalling the sunlit boards of the deck and giving fruit and flower a soft surface to rest on.
