Corpus Equus

Corpus Equus is a manifesto fragrance, dark and incandescent, imagined by Bertrand Duchaufour for Naomi Goodsir. “It is an opus dedicated as much to black as to the leather of the horse,” confides the perfumer. An ode to the velvet of the coat, the warmth of the saddle, to raw animality transcended by elegance.
This creation echoes the work of Pierre Soulages, from whom Duchaufour openly draws inspiration: “Perfume is like a painting by Soulages, who managed to make his black works shine with light, thanks to the iridescent reflections he gave their composition.”
This light is born here from the contrast between the leathery darkness of oud and castoreum, and the intoxicating caress of a black rose with moist petal accents. A leather soliflore that absorbs light as much as it reflects it, like an olfactory black hole.
Corpus Equus is a skin scent, intimate, almost like a black musk. It evokes the tension between shadow and light, matter and the intangible. A perfume of extreme contrasts, which “blends as much the smell of velvet as that of the horse’s saddle,” and whose sensory imprint evokes a telluric, visceral elegance.