Oriza L. Legrand
Oriza L. Legrand
116 votes
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
Corn mint crashes in with a crystalline, almost aqueous freshness, immediately tempered by star anise's warm spice—a discordant, intriguing clash that feels more like biting into an herb rather than smelling one. The angelica adds a subtle celery-like greenness that completes the picture of standing amidst cut grass and wildflowers.
The spice mellows as clover blooms through, rendering the composition powdery and slightly sweet, whilst hay and clary sage create a dried, autumnal quality despite the fresh opening. The fragrance settles into something dry and herbaceous, less immediately green now, more contemplative and study-like.
White musk and ivy emerge with delicate restraint, imparting a faint skin-scent quality with dusty, slightly metallic undertones. The composition fades gradually into a soft, lingering herbal whisper—neither sweet nor sharp, simply present and understated.
Foin Fraîchement Coupé announces itself as something genuinely green—not the synthetic green of a lab, but the chlorophyll-rich verdancy of a freshly scythed meadow. The corn mint surges forward with a bright, almost mentholic clarity, whilst star anise adds an unexpected peppery bite that prevents this from becoming another sweet hay fragrance. There's something almost medicinal in the opening minutes, a suggestion that you're standing in a field still warm from the sun, breathing in the sharp aroma of freshly cut grass and wild herbs.
What makes this fragrance remarkable is its refusal to sentimentalise nature. The clover and hay notes in the heart are rendered with a slightly savoury, dusty quality—think more of the fibrous stalk than the delicate flower. The clary sage deepens this herbal character, introducing a subtle earthiness and a whisper of powder that softens without sweetening. It's an olfactory study in contrast: mineral against botanical, green against spicy.
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