The Editors’ Picks – Maya Boyd
The L'OFFICIEL IBIZA digital team tell us what they really, really hope to find under the tree this Christmas.
L'OFFICIEL IBIZA's Editor at Large, Maya Boyd, is hoping for exotic fragrance, hip artwork and a history book to get lost in by the fire. Oh, and a winter sailing weekend!
The Ibiza-based perfumer and ethnographer Evelyn Naòn has handcrafted a series of scents that reflect Ibiza's historical bonds with Arabia. My signature scent - that I will never part with - is Salalah, an exotic blend inspired by Ibiza’s ancient frankincense trading routes, but this year I’ll be hoping for a bottle of Evelyn’s new Sana’a, which uses leather, sandal, salvia and myrrh to capture the heady fragrance of the historic Yemeni capital.
The cultural heritage of the Pityuses is my absolute passion, so I can’t wait to get my hands on a copy of Conor O’Brien’s 'Voyage and Discovery', a remarkable forgotten memoir about Ibiza originally published in 1933. An updated version was released this week by Barbary Press, the Ibiza imprint founded by my dear friend and history mentor, Martin Davies. Available at La Galería Elefante.
As an art junkie, I’m always on the hunt for exciting new pieces. Thanks to Santa Gertrudis’s Galeria Tambien, I was introduced to the work of French street artist Burnex, whose primitive, monochrome works I have totally fallen for. I’d be thrilled to find one of his little monster paintings in my stocking.
ChAI ShOP’s Alexeja and Diego are dear friends and – in my opinion – have the best eye on the island. Through them I met the extraordinary nomadic painter Carlito Dalceggio, and I have coveted one of his celadon-green and gold paintings of entwined lovers - created on a mountain in San Mateu - ever since.
Delfín Cambiaso and Agustina Basaldua have created the dream bohemian existence, sailing the world on their restored French sailing yacht. I’d love to book one of their winter sailing weekends and spend two wild days exploring the Balearic coasts with their little family and mine.
