Composed by Amélie Bourgeois
Warm bread, white sheets in the sun, and Marseille soap: MENDITTOROSA South smells like a Mediterranean home where cleanliness, food, and the garden all happen in the same room.
Italian bergamot and Egyptian basil open the composition brightly, greenly, and aromatically. Cyclamen and soft jasmine add a clean floralcy, while lilac brings a slightly bitter, nostalgic nuance.
Amélie Bourgeois introduces a dry cleaner's bag accord, an unusual move that gives the fragrance a neat, synthetically clean surface. Beneath it, a bread accord and green hazelnuts create a completely different, warm and homey texture.
Australian and white sandalwood connect the clean laundry with the bread, while precious woods, carrot seed, and amyris leave a dry, rooty finish.
South is the warmer, more spontaneous half of the North–South pair, a love story between the Mediterranean and Scandinavia. You can wear them separately or layered; if you're looking for a classic fresh soap, the bread and hazelnut might be too unusual for you.
In the end, a bread crust remains on a white sheet, with sandalwood and a silver trace of cleanliness — a Southern mess that has just been washed, but never fully tidied.
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