GALLIVANT Buenos Aries via the brand
After traveling to14 cities around the world (most recently in 2024 to NIDA (a limited edition and Taif (Fortnum and Mason’s exclusive) through the medium of scent, London based GALLIVANT’s creative director and founder Nick Steward brings us the brand’s first fragrant foray into the Southern Hemisphere with GALLIVANT Buenos Aries.
Top right: Map of Argentina; Top left Edificio Kavanagh, Bottom left: La Boca, Doorway In Buenos Aries, sun from the Argentine flag and Casa Rosada in Buenos Aries
“I vividly remember watching Magenta de Vine on the BBC Rough Guide to Buenos Aires in the summer of 1990 and deciding this was a place I wanted to go. Fast forward a year to the summer of 1991, and still a teenager, I flew (alone!) to Argentina. I have such a strong memory of arriving at Ezeiza Airport and being hit by the smell of leather and that cologne that the Spanish and Latin Americans put through their hair. That was the beginning of a life long love affair with the city, and its residents, called portenos.”-Nick
Nick Steward of Gallivant and Karine Chevallier
Nick chose longtime collaborator independent perfumer Parisian Karine Chavallier to capture his memories and the terroir of “The Paris of South America.”
Alfojores, famous Argentine biscuits, the ceibo, Argentina’s national flower, tonka bean
“GALLIVANT Buenos Aries opens with a novel grape accord, in a playful nod to the vineyards and wines, a dash of zesty optimistic citrus notes, and Paraguayan petitgrain. The heart of this scent includes a flamboyant floral note: the ceibo, Argentina’s national flower, from its cockspur coral tree. The iconic yerba mate adds a grassy, hay, smoky tobacco-like dimension. An impression underscored with a classic Fougère accord. And the base of the composition celebrates the much-loved tonka bean, with its creamy, woody, spicy, nutty aspects – in concert with dulce de leche and leather.”
We have been with GALLIVANT from the beginning, in 2017 and Nick visited me in New York City where we shared lunch al fresco on a sunny autumn day.
100 ml Buenos Aries by GALLIVANT
“I definitely count my blessings that I’ve had the support of Michelyn and the ÇaFleureBon community since I left L’Artisan Parfumeur and went out on my own as an independent maker. The years have flown by – time flies when you’re having fun, as they say – but I’m as excited today to share our new GALLIVANT Buenos Aries with you all, as I did back in 2017 when we debuted our collection of authentic artisanal perfumes. Thank you all for following our journey and here’s to the pleasures of perfumed escapism.“-Nick
GALLIVANT is compounded in Grasse, France (at Art & Parfum, the company founded by legendary perfumer Edmond Roudnitska) and then hand-finished in England, in a genuinely artisanal, small-batch, slow-perfume, human process
Michelyn’s Note: I met Nick in 2013 at the launch of L’Artisan Parfumeur Caligna in NYC, where he was the Creative Director and I immediately adored him; he brought the actual ingredients to the restaurant table! Nick Steward was my Hardest Working Person in Perfume in 2023. “Nick has been gallivanting all over the world finding inspiration for his collection of travel inspired fragrances since 2017. Sound glamourous? Nick Steward makes every single sample by hand with his parents and then packs and posts all the orders.”
Via press release and my own synopsis-Michelyn Camen, Editor-in-Chief (all photos courtesy of Nick, collages by Michelyn from images shared from the brand)
Available on gallivant-perfumes.com and retailers globally as of October 16, 2024
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