Bogue Mem Eau de Parfum 50 ml is a unisex fougère fragrance. This scent opens with a dark lavender note that smells less of fresh herbs and more of clay and porcini mushrooms. The sun arrives early in the form of hops, roasted malt, and the pale beer effervescence of aldehydes, lifting the perfume from its humus-rich opening. The burnt sugar of ethyl maltol candies the lavender, creating a phantom fruit accord, like the dark and almost calcified contents of a forgotten jar of peach jam. But as soon as the mind gets used to this accord, MEM shifts again, this time into a rich floral heart of jasmine, rose, and ylang ylang that sacrifices beauty for the more interesting facets of wax, gasoline, and rubber. Indian sandalwood, with its soft wheat milkiness, and Himalayan cedarwood, with its lingering note of forest smoke, work in tandem to ease the flowers and aromas into the base. The finish, robust and beautiful, weaves the sweet dust of spent incense into the musky, salty, and animale base of a barbershop fougère. Mem Eau de Parfum 50 ml is not a fragrance that lends itself to easy interpretations, but it will reward your patience a hundredfold. In terms of chi who can wear it, MEM is a kind of chimera: at times it seems masculine, at others feminine. Beautiful, quixotic, and memorable, this is the boldest artisanal perfumery.