Nacre is the body family, and the only one whose colour is the very material it is named after: pearl. True pearl powder, and a hydrolyzed pearl extract in the cleansers. Pearl has been used for centuries in Asian traditions to soothe the skin and give it light. The Maison does not sell it as a miracle. It sells a simpler fact: the word on the bottle is the material in the bottle. In the creations that stay on the skin, there is no glitter. The glow comes from the texture and

Every family of the Maison takes its colour from the active itself. Nothing is added to look beautiful. For Rubis, the face family, that colour comes from red sandalwood, Pterocarpus santalinus. Its heartwood holds santalins, among the very few red pigments in nature that dissolve in oil. Left to rest in oil, the wood gives a deep, translucent crimson, closer to a ruby than to a rose. It is the wood of the temples of southern India, and red sandalwood with rose water has been