Bogue Mem Eau de Parfum 50ml is a unisex fougère fragrance. This fragrance opens with a dark lavender note that smells less of fresh herbs and more of clay and porcini mushrooms. The sun arrives early in the form of hops, toasted malt and the lager-like effervescence of aldehydes, lifting the scent from its humus-rich opening. The burnt sugar of ethyl maltol caramelizes the lavender, creating a ghostly fruit accord, like the dark, almost calcified contents of a forgotten jar of peach jam. But as the mind adjusts to this accord, MEM shifts again, this time into a rich floral heart of jasmine, rose and ylang ylang that sacrifices beauty for the more interesting facets of wax, petrol and rubber. Indian sandalwood, with its milky-grain softness, and Himalayan cedarwood, with its lingering note of woodsy smoke, work in tandem to facilitate the flowers and aromatics in the base. The finish, robust and beautiful, intertwines the sweet powder of the extinguished incense with the musky, salty and animale of a barber fougere. Mem Eau de Parfum 50 ml is not a perfume that lends itself to easy interpretations, but it will reward your patience a hundredfold. In terms of chi can wear it, MEM is a kind of chimera: sometimes it seems masculine, other times feminine. Beautiful, quixotic and memorable, this is artisanal perfumery at its most daring.
