Bogue Profumo MEM Eau de Parfum
In MEM, perfumer Antonio Gardoni passes lavender through clay, wood, minerals, burned sugar, and wax so that a new form emerges, like steel forged by the elements. It is dark, more aligned with clay and cep mushrooms than the usual fresh aromatic herbs. Sunshine soon arrives in the form of hops, toasted malt, and the pale ale fizz of aldehydes, lifting the scent out of its humus-rich opening. The scorched-sugar of ethyl maltol caramelises the lavender, creating a phantom accord of fruit, like the dark, almost calcified contents of a forgotten jar of peach marmalade. But as soon as the mind adjusts to this accord, MEM shifts again, this time into a rich floral heart of jasmine, rose, and ylang-ylang, sacrificing prettiness for the more interesting facets of wax, gasoline, and rubber. Indian sandalwood offers a wheaten milkiness, and Himalayan cedarwood its lingering note of woodsmoke, which work in tandem to ease the florals and aromatics into the base. The drydown, which is sturdy and beautiful, weaves the sweet dust of unlit incense into the musky, salty, animalic base of a barbershop fougere. MEM is not a perfume that lends itself to easy interpretation, it will reward your patience a hundred times over. Beautiful, quixotic, and memorable, this is artisanal perfumery at its most daring.
Fragrance Family:
Aromatic Fougere
Notes:
Petitgrain, Mandarin, Grapefruit, Lavender (4 Different Species), Ylang-Ylang, Lily of the Valley, White Champaca, Jasmine Grandiflorum, Rose Damascena, Bourbon Geranium, Vanilla, Peppermint, Laurel, Siam Benzoin, Rosewood, Sandalwood, Himalayan Cedarwood, Labdanum, Ambergris, Musk, Castoreum, Civet, Amber
Concentration:
Eau de Parfum
Occasion:
MEM is something of a chimaera: sometimes it seems masculine, at others, feminine. It is pure creativity in scent - an addictive wear intent upon interestingness. In this sense, it is powerful yet versatile.
Made in Italy
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