RidersGreen Woody Eau de Parfum

Riders by Sarah Baker is a green, woody, aromatic eau de parfum, unisex, created by Ashley Eden Kessler. “Green, country life, equestrian”: the three words of the house.

The perfume that was called Bascule

Sarah Baker is a multidisciplinary artist — film, photography, installation — and the founder of the house, based in an East London studio. She entrusts each perfume to a different nose: “we collaborate on our perfumes rather than dictate.” A point the house is keen to clarify itself: “Riders was called Bascule, it’s exactly the same perfume.” The name has changed, not the formula. And the summary can be summed up in one sentence: “The ride of your life. Hay and horsehair, while the green countryside rushes past.”

An opening of grass, bergamot and lily of the valley

The grass — “green and lush grass,” says the house — opens the perfume, green and freshly cut. The bergamot brightens it, the lily of the valley adds its “broken stems underfoot.” It’s the smell of a meadow, not a bouquet.

A heart of peach, hay and leather

The peach — “a ripe fruit in your hand” — brings the only sweetness to the perfume. The hay and the leather set the scene in the stable: the house speaks of “the smell of horses surrounding you.”

A base of metallic harness, vetiver, amber, musk, fir and tobacco

The metallic harness is the perfume’s stroke of genius: a cold, metallic note of bits and buckles. The vetiver, the fir and the tobacco open up to the outdoors, the amber and the musk warm it up. “A diffusive base that evokes wide-open spaces, but in Sarah Baker’s sophisticated style,” writes the house.

The house’s signature touch

The metal is placed in the base, where warm materials are usually found. It therefore comes after the leather and the hay, and it is this order that creates the scene: first the animal, then the equipment. An equestrian perfume that smells of harness rather than saddle.

For whom, for what occasions?

For those who love green and outdoor fragrances. Spring and autumn, daytime. A 50 ml unisex eau de parfum. The house does not test any products on animals and formulates in compliance with IFRA, without nitromusks, colorants, phthalates or halogenated organic compounds.