Liquides Imaginaires
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
The patchouli lands with immediate earthiness—almost soil-like in its rawness—whilst Cashmeran sketches something ethereal above it, creating an unexpected tension between terrestrial and weightless. Within moments, fir balsam begins warming the composition, adding resinous depth that feels botanical rather than perfumistic.
Moss blooms into prominence, revealing itself as grey and slightly mineral, whilst costus provides a warmly spiced undercurrent that prevents any monolithic quality. The lily's green, stemmy facets emerge subtly, creating a three-dimensional earthy composition that's quietly complex—this is where Tellus achieves its greatest coherence, a balanced soil-and-spice meditation.
Ambroxan and cistus take over, transforming the composition into something increasingly resinous and woody, the patchouli now softened into leather-adjacent territory. The fragrance becomes increasingly abstract, woody-amber, losing definition but gaining a hazy, incense-like persistence that clings close to skin.
Tellus arrives not as a fragrance but as an excavation—a deliberate descent into humus and shadow. Nadège Le Garlantezec has constructed something genuinely chthonic here, where Indonesian patchouli doesn't sweeten or powder but instead presents itself in its most austere, tobacco-leaf state. The Cashmeran acts as a soft foil, introducing a wispy, almost luminescent quality that prevents this from becoming purely subterranean, yet it never dominates; instead, it hovers like morning mist above damp forest floor.
The heart's moss and costus combination is where Tellus reveals its sophistication. The moss isn't the green, bright variety of contemporary niche fragrances—it's the grey-green thing found on ancient stone, slightly metallic, slightly damp. Costus beneath it adds an unexpected spiced warmth, almost resinous, that prevents the composition from becoming a singular note study. A whisper of lily threads through, not floral in any traditional sense, but rather its green stem and bitter sap, anchoring the earthiness with botanical precision.
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