£132.00
Truth is...Baie 19 should have been called Water 19. Not that it smells like nothing (though nothing smells like it), but it has this crisp, wet, drenched effect that water gives to the earth after the rain...And there's a word for that, by the way: petrichor. It's that magical feeling during heavy rain after a long dry spell, and it's one of the most beautiful olfactive phenomena in nature. There are many reasons for this, including the ozone in the air, the negative ions, but most importantly the release of oil secretions from certain plants, accumulated after a long dry period. This is what Baie 19 is about: the dry juniper berry, the patchouli, the green leaves... all soaked by a beautiful, luminous, magnetic rain after a long drought. And the joy that comes with it... Refill your travel tube with the fragrance of your choice. Includes 3 x 10ml spray bottles.
Le Labo hand-blends every fragrance to order in its boutiques, stamps the date and the customer's name on the label and sends them home with something genuinely personal. Santal 33 has become one of the most culturally omnipresent fragrances of the past decade; the broader collection, from Rose 31 to Bergamote 22, rewards those who explore it.