Banan Gris ☽•☾ Banana / Ambergris — Ester Phase.
A study of banana beyond fruit: softened, diffused, and carried into a saline, skin-warm atmosphere.
a l c h e m y ☽•☾
Banan Gris traces banana past its natural form.
In fermentation, banana becomes volatile—
its brightness rising into the air as esters, luminous and fleeting.
Here, that brightness is taken further.
The sweetness is thinned.
The fruit dissolves into warmth.
Salt enters.
Ambergris carries the structure—
mineral, expansive, and softly animalic—
transforming fruit into atmosphere.
What remains is no longer edible.
A trace of banana suspended in air,
resting close to the skin,
quietly diffusing outward.
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Notes / Impressions
• softened banana
• warm skin
• salt air
• mineral ambergris
• faint sweetness dissolving
• sun-warmed driftwood
• quiet animalic warmth
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Edition: Limited
Format: oil based liquid or solid
Photos: spontaneous fermentation of high fragrance Cavendish and Pisang Awak/Namwah bananas with raw organic honey, and webbed remnants of a 9 year ambergris extraction. solid perfume in 5ml and 10ml black violet glass jars; liquid perfume in 5ml and 10ml black violet glass roller ball bottles.
r a w ☽•☾ m a t t e r
Wild Veil natural perfumes are composed by me, Abby, using homemade, wildcrafted and organic aromatics in Vermont. These include my handmade enfleurage, tinctures, enfleurage extraits, absolutes, resinoids and concretes, and floral waxes. I spend as much time growing plants and foraging as I do composing perfumes.
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The best way to experience a natural perfume is to apply it to well-moisturized skin, without rubbing in (absorption only shortens the wear time of fragrance) and without scrubbing off. Natural perfumes are dynamic and take a minimum of 2 hours to reach their final stage, or dry down. Enjoy the alchemical changes as they unfold from the initial intensity of top notes, to the warmth of the heart, to the depth of lower base notes.
☽•☾ Wild Veil ☽•☾ alchemy between earth and ether ☽•☾
☽•☾ All aesthetic material copyright Abby Hinsman 2026 ☽•☾