Aroma palette is herbal, earthy, and woodsy. Highlights include freshly tilled churchyard soil, antique cedar rosaries, orange and fig compote, and the scent of geraniums wafting through a churchyard garden.

This intricate and haunting fragrance draws inspiration from Bernadette Soubirous, a saint renowned for the Marian apparition of Our Lady Of Lourdes. In death, her body has miraculously remained internally incorrupt, while her face and hands are delicately adorned with light wax masks within a crystal reliquary.

At its core, this darkly beautiful blend is built upon a foundation of frankincense, palmarosa, and ambrox. As the fragrance unfolds, nuances of geranium petals, freshly tilled churchyard soil, antique rosaries, cedar wood, and church incense emerge, swirling like phantoms through the dry down. It reveals elusive wisps of sweet orange and fig, adding a strangely beautiful and uplifting fruit element to the experience. In every note, it captures the essence of a sacred presence, creating a captivating and mysterious fragrance that resonates with the divine.

Where Midnight Mass, Holy Ghost, and Cathedral Noir are variations of church inspired interiors, Bernadette is a beautifully kept churchyard at dusk.

Refinement note 1/29/2025:  The artist has replaced the geranium with organic Egyptian geranium, resulting in a smoother, softer geranium note that’s ever so slightly less sharp. This refinement doesn’t alter the overall composition.