‘I was really inspired by the idea of an alien forest — alluring, but also dangerous. So, what I did was play around the fruitiness of blackcurrants and their sulfuric undertones: the smell of sulfur is something we humans can detect from very far, it gives off a sense of danger. And that’s exactly the effect I was looking for with this perfume.’ — Stéphanie Bakouche

Pine absolute, in contrast to the much more common essential oil we associate with floor cleaning products, is a rare, precious material — not many perfumers work with it. The smell is divine: it’s like diving head first into a heap of soft pine needles and having all these sweet, deep green, resinous smells envelop you. And when you overdose it like I did, it reveals a sort of a strange, luminous acidity.’ — Stéphanie Bakouche

‘I like the idea of tangled, smoky vetiver roots working in the base of the fragrance to evoke the richness of an alien soil, the process of organic matter breaking down in it. Also, the vetiver I used blends really well with the pine and the costus, a rich material that smells sweaty and leathery, earthy and animalic at the same time.’ — Stéphanie Bakouche