Baan Suan Intense
Green Kieow Sawoey mango and jasmine from a grandmother's summer garden, deepened with damp, earthy wood.
Perfumer: Sakul Pawasuttikul
Summer in Grandma's garden: jasmine hangs in the air, a tree sags with fruit, and green mangoes are picked straight from the branch. A light breeze carries the season across the wooden deck at the front of the house.
The mango here is Kieow Sawoey, taken green: not the heavy sweetness of ripe flesh but the sweet-sour snap of firm, unripe fruit. Jasmine fills it out with floral sweetness, the fruit's tartness and the flower's softness each taking the edge off the other.
Compared with the original Baan Suan, this version adds a damp, earthy woodiness that gives the scene more shade. Sandalwood lends the fruit and flower a smooth woody ground, tilting the whole away from sweetness toward something anyone could wear.
