L’Eau Douce De Marin Montagut Captures the Artist’s Mediterranean Memories in Citrus, Fig, and Musk
April 18, 2025 – L’eau Douce De Marin Montagut
Known for his hand-painted glassware and illustrated maps, Marin Montagut works like an archivist of French sensibility. Every object he creates—a decanter, a silk scarf, now a perfume—carries a soft echo of time. L’Eau Douce de Marin Montagut, his latest release, is no departure. It’s a distilled summer: citrus, fig, sea air. An extension of his material language, linking liquid to glass, scent to space. Like his atelier on rue Madame, the fragrance tells a story through texture.
Montagut created a perfume like an interior. Every note has structure, progression, and atmosphere. L’Eau Douce de Marin Montagut opens with a rush of lemon and bergamot. It settles fast into orange blossom and mint, a clean, sunlit core. The base is dry: fig bark, musk, a mineral trail. There’s no sweetness here, only temperature. The formula, developed by Maïa Lernout in Grasse, avoids ornamentation. It reads minimal but full.
This nostalgic perfume is spatial, almost designed. Montagut cites memories of the Mediterranean, but they’re refracted through restraint: no souvenirs, no florals, no decadence. The result is a scent that behaves like an object—controlled, composed, and precise.
Montagut Dresses the Perfume in Artisan Layers
The bottle is sculpted, clear, cylindrical, capped in matte gold. Around its neck, a wax-stamped medallion—the same one Montagut uses to seal letters. It arrives in a marbled paper box, hand-assembled in his Paris studio. Nothing about it reads commercial. Instead, it feels intentional, domestic, tactile. Something you’d find on a bookshelf, not a beauty counter.
Montagut’s work resists categorization. His glassware is sold in design galleries and museum shops. His illustrated books read like personal archives. L’Eau Douce de Marin Montagut slots into this system seamlessly.
What makes the perfume notable is the way it mirrors his broader project: preserving fleeting details. The warm echo of citrus skin. The shadow of a fig tree. The dusty stillness of an August morning. These are captured not as emotion, but as composition.
In his world, every object is in dialogue. His decanters reflect light like his perfumes carry air. The boxes are made to open slowly. His maps unfold like linen. L’Eau Douce belongs in this system—one more sensory layer in a multidimensional practice. A fragrance, yes. But also: a surface, a space, a souvenir you can wear.
Where to Find it?
L’eau Douce De Marin Montagut is Available exclusively at 48 rue Madame, the fragrance lives among his glassware and hand-bound notebooks. You’ll find it alongside his decanters, painted with zodiac signs or birds, and paper marbled in his signature vermilion-blue. The store functions like a cabinet of curiosities, where L’Eau Douce sits on mirrored trays like a still life.
📍48 rue Madame, 75006, Paris
🌐 Marin Montagut Online Boutique
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