Fig Eleii

From unknown valleys to unexplored forest.

Fig comes in dry rather than jammy, with green material around it and citrus keeping both lifted. Tuberose sits where a green thing would normally stay cool, and orris and nut thicken the middle around it.

Cedar, sandalwood and musk carry it into the trees. Galbanum, mastic and Scots pine are where the resin comes from. The travelling is the whole of it, in harmony and communion with nature. Harmony is the register, and the tuberose is what stops it going cold.

Maison Incens is a French house built out of a book. Philippe Constantin was born in Cameroon to a French father and a Moroccan mother, grew up in Casablanca, and went to France at eighteen to study economics and international law. The plan was an international organisation and work for people in need. Meeting Jean Claude Gigodot ended that. The house is named for Constantin's father, who left behind a compilation of paintings on leather and stories told in smell.

The releases are the olfactory signature of that book. Each belongs to an opus in the story of Artganis, an unknown civilisation whose life is ruled by smell. The Artganians travel and bring back what they find, and the opuses follow them: their own endemic essences, then the Morocco they settled in, then the divinatory arts they watched, then the legendary earthly materials themselves.