Chapter V · The Trunk
Chérie Oud
Oud · Vanilla · Tonka
$14550 ml
- Fast, complimentary shipping.
- Complimentary 30 day returns and exchanges.
Warm and close. Sweet at first, then woods for hours. The friendly front door to oud.
Chapter V of L'Arbre de Vie · The Trunk
Oud · Vanilla · Tonka
Here the white boxes end and the black begin. Chérie Oud is the trunk of the tree, the living passage between blossom and root, and it makes the descent gently. Bergamot and lavender lift a heart of vanilla and tonka, that round, almost edible warmth of coumarin and benzoin, over a soft ambery oud, woody and discreet rather than smoky. Patchouli, guaiacwood, and amyris keep the sweetness honest. It never tips into dessert. The trunk is where everything connects. What the roots gather, it carries upward into bloom. Sweetness, held in the warmth of wood. An invitation into the deep, not a demand.
- TopCalabrian Bergamot, Bulgarian Lavender
- HeartMadagascar Vanilla, Venezuelan Tonka Bean, Siam Benzoin
- BaseSoft Amber Oud, Indonesian Patchouli, Guaiac Wood, Haitian Amyris
Delivery and returns
Fast, complimentary shipping on every order.
Complimentary returns and exchanges within 30 days. Returns and exchanges
Presentation and gifting
Presentation. The signature coffret, black for Les Racines.
Every full bottle leaves the house in its signature coffret, ready to give. A handwritten note on request: write it in the note field of your bag.
With every full bottle comes one 2.5 ml chapter of your choice, so the bottle can stay sealed until you are certain. Choose it in your bag. It travels beside the bottle in the coffret.
Format and ingredients
Format. 50 ml eau de parfum, spray. Composed and hand finished in house.
Chapter V · The Trunk
Provenance
Where the materials come from
The naturals in Chérie Oud and the places they are grown. Where no origin is printed, none is claimed.
- 01 Bergamot Condofuri, Calabria
- 02 Lavender Bulgaria
- 03 Rosemary Tunisia
- 04 Clove Indonesia
- 05 Patchouli Indonesia
- 06 Guaiacwood Gran Chaco
- 07 Amyris Haiti
- 08 Texas cedarwood Texas, United States
- 09 Benzoin Laos
- 10 Labdanum Spain
- 11 Tonka bean Venezuela
- 12 Vanilla Madagascar
Origins as recorded in the house formula books. Every material, its origin and its story
Chapter V · The Trunk
Inspired by Warmth
Warmth is what carries.
A warm person holds the door. In the tree, that is the trunk: everything the roots gather in the dark travels through it, upward, into bloom. Here the white boxes end and the black begin. Vanilla, tonka bean and benzoin, the warmest materials I know, are the heart; the first oud of the house arrives soft and ambery, woody rather than smoky; patchouli and guaiac wood keep the sweetness honest. If oud has ever felt like too much, this is the door I left open for you.
The Perfumer
