Arrayán Rojo

A potion made from the roots, flowers and leaves of myrtle, mixed with resins and saps from exotic trees.

Second in the saga, it starts fresh and citric, on myrtle leaves from the Andes and Argentine neroli. Sweet palo santo and labdanum take over from there, and then the musk of roots and bark comes up and it dries warm and reddish.

Across a wearing, the leaves, flowers, wood and roots come through at different variations and intensities. The house calls the result wild nature at dawn in the Valdivian forest.

Amber and citrus usually pull against each other, and this one keeps both.

Joel L. Martínez grew up in Arica, or almost Peru, as the founder insists, among herb markets, Aymara elders, olive groves and desert beaches. Training came in Europe. The house says the real mastery came later, from distilling and foraging in the Andes. The method is to burn what was learned, mixing what Europe taught with shamanic teaching and yerbatero ritual, technical data sheets with Aymara grandmothers' recipes.

The name comes from a myth about 432 hertz, a frequency where the universe, the plant kingdom and human rhythm are said to converge. 432 researches, distills and bottles at the pace of the seasons, and each batch differs from the one before it, made from other plants that lived through other storms and droughts. Releases are handcrafted in small batches, with batch numbers and an artisan signature. Five of the seven Mestizos have been released.