What is Fantôme de Maules?
Who is Fantôme de Maules?
The setting: Maules, a small village in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, surrounded by agricultural fields and dense forests.
The subject: An enigmatic being, seen by many wandering the local woodlands for the past decade, dressed in nothing but cloaked camouflage and an obsolete mask. Most likely human but one cannot be sure. Looming at almost two meters tall, he seems to take particular interest in the surrounding flora and fauna.
Unaware of passersby, he spends his time picking and smelling flowers; only then he lets down his guard. A crack of a twig or the rustle of a leaf and he’ll vanish back into the foliage. The locals call him Le Loyon, but the character calls himself Fantôme de Maules. The ghost of Maules.
So who is Fantôme de Maules? A recluse, an outcast from society who has made a home in the forest? A survivalist preparing for the apocalypse? We will never know, because he doesn’t want us to.
And perhaps that’s what makes Fantôme de Maules a character with such a riveting mystery. The modern world is alight with information and the shadows are shrinking. It is rare to come across someone who doesn’t feel it is necessary to explain himself.
NOTES
Top: Bergamot, Green Leaves, Galbanum, Lemon
Middle: Coriander, Cardamom, Forest Flowers, Lavender Absolute
Base: Oakmoss, Cedarwood, Sandalwood, Tonka Bean, Labdanum, Vetiver
PERFUMER
Tomas Hempel
HOW IT WEARS
Fantôme de Maules opens like a portal into an enchanted forest, dewy, green and utterly bewitching in its verdancy. As you pass through the portal, herbal lavender and forest flowers unfurl, dotted with sparkles of green spice. The dry down is really where the magic happens though. Mossy undergrowth meets the dry grassiness of vetiver, underpinned by the earthy richness of labdanum and the scent of ancient tree trunks. This fragrance will last 6-8 hours on the skin.
LORE LOVES
A subversive modern chypre, Fantôme de Maules is a unique but incredibly wearable fragrance. It has the feel of old-world elegance, but with a raw, earthy, other-wordly twist. Its journey on the skin will have you going back to smell it again and again as it wears – there are times when it’s fresh and green, times when it’s resinous and woody, and times when it’s borderline animalic in its earthiness. A scent to make you feel at one with nature, and therefore with yourself.
ABOUT THE BRAND
Founded by a group of 5 multidisciplinary creatives in Stockholm, Sweden, Stora Skuggan (or “Big Shadow” in Swedish) is a fragrance house that enthrals and enchants with its esoteric scent creations.
Approaching fragrance as a form of abstract art, Stora Skuggan’s line invites a range of interpretations. Their fragrances function as wearable works of art; blending concept, aesthetic, form and function together to tell distinct olfactory stories.
Handcrafted in-house in the Stora Skuggan studios and labs, each scent revolves around its own mythology, taking inspiration from stories, images and sounds both real and imagined.
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