Le Mat

CONCEPT

A perfume of divination and tarotology. Le Mat, also called The Fool and Journeyman. A card of 0 and XXII. A powerful icon of the Major Arcana, cards as pages of a sacred book without words to read Life. As Le Mat we walk, feet on the soil and look toward the heaven. Chance, enigma and propulsion. End and beginning.

Le Mat explodes with sweet earth, heaven-sent patchouli anchoring a sensual chypré homage of Rosa Centifolia from Grasse, the strange complexities of immortelle, cloves, black pepper and Egyptian geranium. A talisman of balsamic blessed absolution that will boldly defend mind and body.

In the 2018 edition of Perfumes The Guide, acclaimed fragrance critic Luca Turin awarded Le Mat a coveted 5 stars.

Perfumer: Anne-Sophie Behaghel (Flair Paris)

PACKAGING

LE MAT is housed in a heavy French-made glass bottle with a cap fashioned from a handful of clay, moulded by the hands of Tuscan sculptor Alessandro Reggioli, each one imprinted with the artist’s fingerprints and therefore unique. Fastened around the bottle is a handmade terracotta charm incised with the words LE MAT and a tiny bell announcing LE MAT’s arrival.

The bottle is presented in a luxurious hand-made case, along with a facsimile of the original LE MAT Marseille Tarot card – directly licensed by the Academy of Tarot.

“Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Notes: Nutmeg, Black Pepper, Cloves, Egyptian Geranium, Rosa Centifolia from Grasse, Indonesian Patchouli, Cashmere wood, Spanish Immortelle.

Perfumer: Anne-Sophie Behaghel

Concept & Creative Design: Stefania Squeglia

Extrait de Parfum 24% – 100ml / 3.4 fl OZ – Natural Spray