Buen Camino: a perfume about pilgrimage
Buen Camino is a perfume about pilgrimage inspired by Carter Weeks Maddox’s 600-mile-long walk on the 5,000 year old Camino de Santiago de Compostela. It’s a “psychotic fougere” that twists, turns and loses all sense of orientation, but ultimately provides comfort and reinvigorates a genre aching for new dynamism.
Buen Camino gathers scents from the last stretch of Camino after the toll of his exertions caught up with him and he underwent makeshift surgery from a kindly old nun. The smell from the bundle of dried Iberian lavender and immortelle she gave him to inhale for relaxation mixed with the odours of antiseptics and stiff bandages. The aroma of the hot asphalt of newly paved roads juxtaposed against the dust of the centuries-old, decaying Roman ones. And the simple joy of the Tarta de Santiago, Galician almond cake scented with spiced oranges and lemons served with espresso that he shared with his father who’d traveled to Spain to look after him on his final days on the trail.
Notes
- Bandage Wraps, Infections, Lemon, Antiseptic, Cherries, Hinoki
- Blood Orange, Star Anise, Tarta de Santiago, Iberian Lavender, Espresso
- Asphalt, Dust, Immortelle, Texas Cedarwood, Tobacco, Styrax, Civet
Perfumer: Carter Weeks-Maddox, 2020.
50ml / 1.7 oz | 15ml / .5 oz eau de parfum.
Ingredients: Parfum, Alcohol Denat., Cinnamal, Citral, Citronellol, Coumarin, Eugenol, Farnesol, Linalool, Limonene
