Saint Remy

After the famously troubled artist Vincent Van Gogh cut off his left ear, he admitted himself to an asylum in St Remy in Provence. This extrait is an olfactory portrait of a haunting painting of irises Van Gogh made during his recovery. The Irises depicts a tangle of purple-blue flowers, their stems rippling ribbons of green. The artwork’s dark vibrancy is echoed in the perfume, which explores the dry, leather aspect of iris root. Juniper and ginger keep the focus sharp at the top, before the whole picture emerges revealing amber, vetiver and woods.