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10 / 2025

MINAMI
Descent [South]

Subject — Asagimadara Butterfly
Perfumer — Géraldine Ignesta
Medium — Ecology
Status — Available

»Descending to south — through mountain mist to temple steps. An arrival, but not yet the end.«

The Asagimadara butterfly migrates 2,000 kilometers across Japan, navigating toward destinations programmed into its body but unknown to its individual consciousness. Created for an exhibition on ecological preservation in Kyoto (2025), Minami follows the descent into the city's temple gardens — humid air softening, mountain mist dissolving into moss and incense, the pause of arrival. Not the end, but a waypoint.

MISTY · SOFT · INCENSE

MATERIALS
aldehydes, fresh ginger CO2, bergamot, eucalyptus, aquatic note, osmanthus absolute, jasmine sambac, clary sage, cherry blossom, rosemary extract, galbanum, vanilla absolute, cedar china, incense luban, fir balsam

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Arrives in its handcrafted box from Hokkaido.

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