Peumo Brujo

On the islands of Patagonia and deep in the Andean forest, sorcerers were said to put on the hide of a beast and become the creature they wanted to be.

The fifth of the Seven Mestizos is a green animalic leather hidden in the humid forest, Andean woods blended with wild materials, among them cistus, nagarmotha and an Indian musk.

The creation is primal force and intuition, the drive that arrives where reason has run out of answers.

Charred raulí for the cap. Its shape draws on bifurcating trunks, a faun's limbs, and two paintings, Léon Spilliaert's Faun in the Moonlight and Guillermo Lorca's La Vida Eterna.

For someone who has worn a lot of polite leathers and would like one that smells like it has been outdoors.

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.