Ushant

The brand Guerlain sent some of its staff to the French island of Ushant to source ingredients for its Abeille Royale Collection, an assortment of creams, facial oils, masks and skin balms with high concentrations of royal jelly and honey.

To protect the bees in Ushant, Guerlain has entered into a 10-year partnership with the Brittany Black Bee Conservatory.

It is home to seals, sea-birds, rabbits, and a flock of black Ushant sheep.

The nearby island of Ouessant is known in English charts as Ushant.

It’s written into the title of that experimental autobiography, “Ushant,” which takes its name from a treacherous island whose rocky shore ships were wary to approach, but which is also a pun on the perpetual disappointment of any attempt to wholly understand ourselves, or others, or, in fact, anything: “You shan’t!”