Marc-Antoine Barrois is a couturier first. His house in Paris makes clothes to measure, and the fragrances began as an extension of that: something a client could wear that had been made with the same care as the jacket. He turned to the perfumer Quentin Bisch, and together they made something that outgrew its origins.
Ganymede is the fragrance that did it. A mineral, saffron-laced composition with a strange, almost metallic clarity, it smells like nothing that came before it and has been imitated a great deal since. B683 is its opposite, a warm, spiced leather. Tilia is linden blossom in June. Encelade is green and rooty, rhubarb and vetiver. Ganymede Extrait takes the original deeper.
The character of the house
A small catalogue, each fragrance distinct, each made with the patience of someone used to fitting a garment over several appointments. Nothing is released to fill a gap.
Why Stacey admires it
Because it is one man's taste, expressed through one perfumer, and the two of them have made a house out of a handful of bottles.