Bois Verna N•O•A•M 2022

The sky over Bois Verna was blue and green, so many citrus burst flares could be seen, bursting like fine cool fountains and forming sorbets of cream on the horizon, in which ice crystals danced, in the distance over the Ylang flowers, which looked as if they were wearing bell-bottoms. Dave absentmindedly stroked his sideburns. On one of the flares, his ship sailed into the harbor, through hesperidic spray of fresh Petitgrain drops, sparkling combative cardamom pods like LEDs in rainbows, bending lemongrass into bitter fog over the ocean of Elemih resin, which luminesced before Port-au-Prince. Hey-dee, hey-dee.
Limousine. Dave drifted through the narrow streets, lined with moss-covered, crooked facades made of almonds, jasmine, and ginger, under roofs of grated lemon peels that looked like they came from fairy tale books. Steep alleys lost themselves like clouds in the jungle of roots and vetiver grasses, in earthy-green cool winds through the open windows of the 70s Lincoln, high above the city somewhere in the hills of a space-time fantasy. Hey-dee, hey-dee.
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New Oceans And Meridians (N.O.A.M. Botanical Perfumes) is an olfactory space-time travel agency, leaving known shores, creating visually striking art, surrounding you with distant places, enveloping you in adventure, and is absolutely wearable. The Swiss label uses only high-quality natural raw materials for its complex compositions.
"Bois Verna" is probably the most accessible of the first three fragrances from the house. Green, herb-fresh hesperides initially blend with peppery nutmeg, camphor-like cardamom, and slightly sharp notes of ginger, the oils of Petitgrain sparkle, Elemih resins provide volume, before at the heart mainly Ylang, lotus, and frangipani contribute a bright, herbaceous, and slightly bitter creaminess, shifting the scent more towards that of a cool sorbet, before the high-quality vetivers increasingly take over in the base, the gnarly-green Bourbon and the minimally gasoline-like, rooty-earthy Haitian vetiver, which together with the Indian vetiver appear light and clear, transparent and cooling. Overall, the entire micro-arrangement here resembles a fine, pointillistic painting of fresh green, yellow, white, and brown dotted dew drops. The excursion into the Port-au-Prince of the late 70s unfolds overall moderately and fills the evening.