EMBODIED MEMORIES: Rose et Marius’ Art of Provençal Living.
Editorial
Rose et Marius’ Art of Provençal Living.
In the lavender-scented heat of a Provençal summer, a child lay on cool, intricately-colored stone tiles. Her grandmother fastened the last immortelle they had picked that morning from the garrigue to the ceiling of the bastide, their drying flowers perfuming the rooms of her family home with a spicy, licorice scent. In the long afternoons, she would nap beneath the sun-dappled leaves of an embracing century-old fig tree, the warmth of fresh herbs underfoot embedded in the movements of a
family’s life.
“These memories of laughter fragrance light and colour inspire the vision of Rose et Marius the namesake of Magali Fleurquin Bonnard’s singular grandmother who gifted her with a childhood of summers in Provence.”
These memories of laughter, fragrance, light and colour inspire the vision of Rose et Marius, the namesake of Magali Fleurquin Bonnard’s singular grandmother who gifted her with a childhood of summers in Provence. Her scents hearken back to native, wild fragrances, eschewing cliché. The aesthetic begins with Rose’s fifteenth century bastide, the tiles structuring the designs and the bright white light of the south illuminating the exquisitely designed candles, “which have the particularity of becoming translucent, once lit, thanks to the fineness and whiteness of the exceptional Limoges porcelain.” After having travelled the world and working with several luxury brands, Fleurquin Bonnard returned to her beloved Provence to immortalise it – in scent. She searched the countryside and villages for like-minded artisans to craft the perfumes, soaps, and candles which capture its essence, and assembled a team of creatives uniquely skilled in each aspect of design and inception. “Le meilleur rien que le meilleur!” she says, smiling – nothing but the best.
Words: Brodie Duncan
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Released June 2024.