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Legend says, that during the colonization of the new world, the Franciscan monks, while entrusted by the Queen of Spain, picked flowers, woods and exotic herbs together within the Mayan natives in the remote land of the Yucatán Peninsula. So many species were found, that the monks, little by little, began to create a large botanical catalog, giving rise to the most original eau de cologne, emulsions and lotion formulas, as well as introducing perfumes mixed with essential oils, using native flora from the Yucatán Peninsula.
For Almost 300 years, these prized products perfumed the Great Spanish Empire, while entire generations were delighted by such distinguished essences. Later, the Caste War in Mexican territory, made the charming art of mixing fragances and creating perfumes lost. Nicolas Malleville, a contemporary landscape architect and perfumer, was inspired since the 500 years of the exotic flora and scents of the Yucatan Peninsula in the libraries of Kew Gardens in England, Le Jardin de Bagatelle in Paris and Hanbury Gardens in Italy.
Captivated by the stories of these lands, Nicolas decided to embark on a trip to Yucatan with the clear objective in mind: recover the monks' old formulas and fuse them together with the legacy of ancient Mayan medicine. Several years were dedicated to research before the perfumer achived his goal. Since then, Nicolas founded Coqui Coqui Perfumes, a small lab in the mystical and colonial town of Valladolid, one of the first colonial towns in the Americas.
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