The Story
Why it exists.
The beginning
Les Champs Blancs translates from French, and that's exactly what it evokes: open ground in the first hour between winter and spring, when the snow hasn't fully retreated but the grass is already pushing through. Launched in 2021, it marked a quieter chapter for the house. Sparkling wine and clover over a base of conifer and cedar, the whole composition reads like a winter garden party in a glass, bright and just slightly chilled. The opening has a wet, mineral edge that recalls condensation on cold surfaces, and there's a green sweetness rising beneath it that carries the whole thing forward. It's a composition that doesn't hide from daylight, preferring instead to claim its own space somewhere between frost and new growth.
What makes this composition unusual for the brand is the ozonic top. Snow as a perfumery note is a strange thing to declare, because snow doesn't smell, exactly. It smells like the air thinning, like moisture condensing on cold surfaces. Engloner pairs that abstraction with grass, which does smell, and greenly. The clover and tea in the heart keep the composition grounded in botanical reality so the snow accord doesn't tip into something synthetic or metallic. The fir and cedarwood base anchors everything in forest resin.
The evolution
The first ten minutes are the coldest part. That snow accord sits on top of the grass like a thin glaze, and the whole opening reads as wet, mineral, and slightly sharp, closer to the smell of breathing outside in January than any traditional perfume. There's a faint sweetness underneath, the wine just beginning to rise, but the top stays austere. Around the thirty-minute mark the clover opens, and the composition warms. The sparkling wine note surfaces, not boozy but effervescent, and the tea adds a tannic bitterness that keeps the sweetness in check. By the two-hour point the green notes have faded considerably. The silver fir takes over, and this is where Les Champs Blancs reveals its most interesting move: a coniferous base under what began as a meadow scent, like walking from an open field into a tree line. The cedarwood keeps it dry, slightly pencil-shaving.
Cultural impact
Les Champs Blancs reads as a landscape captured in a bottle, the sort of fragrance that invites the wearer to imagine themselves somewhere specific: a wide, cold field at the edge of a forest, early in the year. The composition draws on a vocabulary of natural materials, snow accord, grass, clover, tea, fir, and cedarwood, to build something that feels more like a place than a perfume. The wine note adds a celebratory sparkle without tipping into anything formal, and the green heart keeps the whole thing rooted in the living world rather than the abstract.
