House of Bō Espiritu Parfum

What it smells like

Espiritu is a soulful woody chypre. It opens aromatic and earthy, with clary sage and an unusual, green carrot-seed facet.

The heart is elegant and powdery, with cool iris, rose and apricot-tinged osmanthus. The base is deep and classic, with smoky tobacco, supple leather, mossy oakmoss and resinous labdanum. It is a refined, characterful chypre — vintage in spirit yet modern, with real depth and a contemplative, spiritual calm.

The full composition runs from top notes of Sage, Carrot, through a heart of Iris, Rose, Osmanthus, to a base of Tobacco, Leather, Oakmoss, Labdanum — a chypre built to unfold slowly and wear close to the skin. The parfum is housed in House of Bō's signature bottle, finished with a hand-cut, semi-precious stone cap chosen to mirror the mood of the scent.

On skin its principal accords — Woody, Leather, Floral, Mossy and Powdery — layer into a rounded, characterful whole, and as a parfum-strength concentration it is built for rich projection and long wear. It is offered here in both a 40 ml and a larger 75 ml bottle.

Who made it

This parfum was composed by Rodrigo Flores-Roux, the celebrated Mexican-born perfumer and a senior perfumer at Givaudan. Raised in Mexico City with an early passion for botany, he built a distinguished career in New York and is widely admired for his work on the Arquiste line, Clinique Happy for Men, John Varvatos and Tom Ford's neroli and citrus creations — compositions praised for their vivid naturalism and emotional warmth. His luminous, richly textured signature, often drawing on the flora and light of Latin America, is exactly the sensibility House of Bō was founded to celebrate.

For House of Bō, Rodrigo shaped Espiritu as a bold, artistic parfum that translates this pedigree into the house's tropical, Latin-inflected style.

Who it’s for

For lovers of woody chypres, iris and leather who want something soulful and sophisticated. Fully unisex.

It suits admirers of smoky, textured woody compositions who want presence and artistry without heaviness, and its confident character reads beautifully on any wearer; fully unisex.

When to wear it

An autumn, winter and cooler-weather scent, day into evening; its leather, tobacco and moss feel richest in the cold.

It is wearable year-round but especially rewarding in cooler weather and from day into evening, at ease in the office, on evenings out and on occasions that call for a little gravity.

About the house

House of Bō is a contemporary niche perfume house founded by Bernardo Möller, its Founder and Creative Director. Its signature DNA is rooted in simplicity, minimalism and spirituality, and it collaborates with some of the world's most accomplished perfumers to create bold, artistic parfums that pair fine materials with a tropical, Latin-inflected sensibility. Each fragrance is presented in a distinctive bottle crowned with a hand-finished, semi-precious stone cap chosen to echo the character of the scent, making the collection as beautiful to display as it is to wear. The house's collection spans fresh citrus, lush florals, plush gourmands and smoky woods, each conceived as a distinct olfactory world. At Redolia Perfumery every House of Bō parfum is offered as a full bottle in two sizes, 40 ml and 75 ml.