Miller Harris
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
The clary sage and thyme attack with immediate green intensity—sharp, almost medicinal, with a faint peppery heat that makes you want to sniff twice. Angelica adds a peculiar spiced brightness, whilst rosemary anchors everything in that herbal, slightly resinous territory, creating an opening that feels deliberately unconventional.
The white florals—particularly iris and narcissus—emerge with a powdery, almost soapy mineral quality that plays beautifully against the persistent herbs. Rose threads through but never dominates; instead, it seems to absorb the greenness around it, creating a strange, slightly cool floral accord that feels more contemplative than seductive. The woody accords begin surfacing, adding quiet weight.
Vetiver and oakmoss settle into a distinctly earthy, mossy foundation, whilst the leather adds subtle warmth and a whisper of skin-like quality. The herbs fade to distant memory, leaving something dry, mineral-tinged, and vaguely woody—a scent that ends somewhere between damp earth and aged paper, quiet and somewhat introspective.
Fleurs de Sel arrives as a deliberate contradiction: a fragrance that smells simultaneously of a sun-baked herb garden and the mineral crunch of sea salt. Lyn Harris has constructed something genuinely unusual here—a composition that refuses the typical floral sweetness one might expect from its heart notes. The opening salvo of clary sage and thyme establishes an almost savoury territory, herbaceous and slightly peppery, before angelica and rosemary amplify that green, slightly bitter character. This is no gentle florality.
What makes Fleurs de Sel intriguing is how the narcissus, iris, and rose in the heart refuse to soften the herbal spine. Instead, they interact with those woody and spicy elements to create something austere, nearly aromatic in the pharmaceutical sense—imagine picking white flowers whilst standing in a coastal herb garden at dusk. The iris particularly contributes a slightly powdery, almost mineral quality that echoes the salt referenced in the name.
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