The Mojave Desert is a vast prehistoric landscape spanning south-eastern California, southern Nevada, southwestern Utah and north-western Arizona. An immense expanse full of climatic extremes which takes its name from the Native American term for “beside the water”. The ghost flower is a rare species that dares to blossom above this baked, hard ground. Its pale almost translucent petals suggest a delicate, fragile state, yet this wondrous plant lives where life seems all but absent. Its ethereal appearance belies its strength and nature.
Despite its arid surroundings and inability to produce nectar, the ghost flower, or Mohavea Confertiflora, maintains it's perfect, majestic beauty and thrives year after year. In an astonishing feat of ingenuity the flower uses mimicry to attract the pollinators of a neighboring plant species by developing markings that resemble those of a female bee genus attracted to its subject and duping the male bee into following suit. This moving humanlike behavior and captivating tale of survival lies in the foundation that inspired Byredo's perfume, “Mojave Ghost” which is an homage to this most bewitching flower.