A WOMEN-LED
GARDEN
In the Ourika Community Gardens, local women from the Ourika Valley cultivate, harvest, and dry the botanicals used in YSL Beauty products with unique craftsmanship. YSL Beauty supports this women's cooperative in collaboration with its non-profit partners, Agrisud International and Fondation Norsys, through year-round guidance in cooperative management. In 2025, this included more than 140 hours of training and guidance covering, notably, financial literacy, management, ingredient cultivation, and drying techniques.
POWERFUL BOTANICALS
TO SPARK INNOVATION
The botanicals YSL Beauty grows spark innovations. Morocco’s Atlas region offers an extreme climate, with searingly hot summers and bitingly cold winters. This land of contrasts brings out the best in botanicals. The Ourika Community gardens shelters more than 200 resilient plants which are carefully extracted. Today, 46 exclusive ingredients are grown for YSL Beauty products. In partnership with UEBT, sourcing practices are constantly improved to further benefit biodiversity, climate, and local communities.
POWERFUL BOTANICALS
TO SPARK INNOVATION
The botanicals YSL Beauty grows spark innovations. Morocco’s Atlas region offers an extreme climate, with searingly hot summers and bitingly cold winters. This land of contrasts brings out the best in botanicals. The Ourika Community gardens shelters more than 200 resilient plants which are carefully extracted. Today, 46 exclusive ingredients are grown for YSL Beauty products. In partnership with UEBT, sourcing practices are constantly improved to further benefit biodiversity, climate, and local communities.
POWERFUL BOTANICALS
TO SPARK INNOVATION
The botanicals YSL Beauty grows spark innovations. Morocco’s Atlas region offers an extreme climate, with searingly hot summers and bitingly cold winters. This land of contrasts brings out the best in botanicals. The Ourika Community gardens shelters more than 200 resilient plants which are carefully extracted. Today, 46 exclusive ingredients are grown for YSL Beauty products. In partnership with UEBT, sourcing practices are constantly improved to further benefit biodiversity, climate, and local communities.
POWERFUL BOTANICALS
TO SPARK INNOVATION
The botanicals YSL Beauty grows spark innovations. Morocco’s Atlas region offers an extreme climate, with searingly hot summers and bitingly cold winters. This land of contrasts brings out the best in botanicals. The Ourika Community gardens shelters more than 200 resilient plants which are carefully extracted. Today, 46 exclusive ingredients are grown for YSL Beauty products. In partnership with UEBT, sourcing practices are constantly improved to further benefit biodiversity, climate, and local communities.
POWERFUL BOTANICALS
TO SPARK INNOVATION
The botanicals YSL Beauty grows spark innovations. Morocco’s Atlas region offers an extreme climate, with searingly hot summers and bitingly cold winters. This land of contrasts brings out the best in botanicals. The Ourika Community gardens shelters more than 200 resilient plants which are carefully extracted. Today, 46 exclusive ingredients are grown for YSL Beauty products. In partnership with UEBT, sourcing practices are constantly improved to further benefit biodiversity, climate, and local communities.
POWERFUL BOTANICALS
TO SPARK INNOVATION
The botanicals YSL Beauty grows spark innovations. Morocco’s Atlas region offers an extreme climate, with searingly hot summers and bitingly cold winters. This land of contrasts brings out the best in botanicals. The Ourika Community gardens shelters more than 200 resilient plants which are carefully extracted. Today, 46 exclusive ingredients are grown for YSL Beauty products. In partnership with UEBT, sourcing practices are constantly improved to further benefit biodiversity, climate, and local communities.
REGENERATIVE AND ORGANIC
CULTIVATION for
BIODIVERSITY TO THRIVE
Regenerative cultivation and organic practices have been a core principle in the creation of the OURIKA COMMUNITY GARDENS. Conceived by two garden designers,
Ossart and Maurières, the vast main garden with its four open walls and square fountain, follows ancestral techniques specific to the region.
Water flows naturally from the Atlas Mountains down to the parcels. The drystone terraces are home for lemon trees alongside irises, saffron, marigold, cacti, and jasmine.
Further away, zinnias or colorful birds of paradise pay tribute to Mr Saint Laurent’s love of gardens.
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THE GARDENS ARE NOT MEANT
TO BE CONTEMPLATIVE BUT TRULY
EXPLORATORY.
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ERIC OSSART & ARNAUD MAURIERES
EXPLORE THE GARDENS
OUR PROGRAMS AND COMMITMENT
Abuse is not love
Rewild our earth
the environment in partnership with
NGO.
Reduce our impact
and "PRODUCTS DESIGNED TO MINIMIZE
THEIR ENVIRONMENTAL FOOTPRINT"
