Description
House of Matriarch Bonsai Eau de Parfum won the Best Perfume prize at the 2020 Art & Olfaction Award in Los Angeles in the Artisan category.
House of Matriarch Bonsai Eau de Parfum is a bitter green potion that magically combines the ordered nature of a zen garden with the chaotic wildness of weeds. In the Art & Olfaction winning Bonsai, House of Matriarch took the Japanese zen garden as inspiration to capture in scent a side of nature that is timeless and sacred. A place where rare natural notes of alligator juniper, black copal, aglaia flower, chrysanthemum and specimen evergreens of the Far East burst forth in their fullest expression and radiance. Fittingly for a fragrance of this calibre, Bonsai is a delicate olfactive arrangement that perfectly reflects the highly cultivated and tended to gardens of the far east.
But there is also something wilder hiding amid the pristine, preened foliage. Bonsai has a bitter green edge, unleashing a fragrance that feels wild – poisonous even. This dark side is reminiscent of ragwort (otherwise known as benweed), a toxic weed that grows on the fringes of fields throughout the Eurasian continent. The primordial green aroma that surrounds it imbues ragwort with an unharnessed, independent spirit and it was even used in Ancient Greece to produce love potions.
Breathing Bonsai deeply, your heart will open to the unlikely marriage. Succumb to the spell of the dry down – rooting into the soil of your most primitive pleasure centres as your nose rests on hallucinatory incense, mosses and ancient earth. House of Matriarch Bonsai is a hyperrealistic green tamed by the human hand; a garden regulated for our enjoyment. Bonsai is also a magical maceration of weeds gathered by a wiccan herbalist to seduce, enchant, even induce a whole new state of consciousness.
House of Matriarch believes in the transcendent power of fragrance to connect us to the past, captivate our being in the present moment and help us to write the future. House of Matriarch founder, scent strategist and perfume mage, Christi Meshell, is the preeminent “creative nose” of the American niche perfume scene. Her versatility as both creative director and fragrance composer allows her to single-handedly develop a concept from initial inspiration, to rare ingredient gathering and onwards to final display, cellaring and legacy cataloguing.
House of Matriarch Bonsai is 98.5% natural.
Notes: Japanese Cypress, Green Notes, Chrysanthemum, Incense, Aglaia Flower, Alligator Juniper, Spices, Woody Notes, Black Copal
You can try the perfume with the samples and in 7scents:
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