Picking the lichens

Lichens

• There are different kinds of lichen on one big tree alone. Lichens are very sensitive to the pollution of air.

The collecting of the lichen

• The collecting of the green lichen is made in The collecting of the green lichen is made in forests. Men or families leave from morning, forests. Men or families leave from morning, loaded with crates in which they will deposit loaded with crates in which they will deposit the lichen. the lichen.

It is then a question of taking off delicately It is then a question of taking off delicately the lichen of the trunks of trees to have the the lichen of the trunks of trees to have the biggest "plates" possiblebiggest "plates" possible

Use in perfumery

The tree lichen is a complex raw material which comes into the composition of

perfume in back note.

Commonly called lichens, they produce, after extraction, a perfume

very appreciated by the creators.