Fleur du Maquis is covered with dried green herbs to flavor the cheese, but also to make it beautiful. Fleur de Maquis "Flower of the Maquis," a wild, brambly groundcover for which Corsica is also called Brin d'Amour or Brindamour which is French for "bit of love".
Fleur du Maquis is made from raw sheep's milk, has a sweet and gentle herbal flavor, the cheese is coated with rosemary, thyme, savory, coriander, and juniper berries.
The young cheese has a snow-white, creamy, soft and moist paste. The paste turns darker when the cheese matures and starts to run. Eventually the paste will harden again.
The pure taste of the young gourmet cheese is quite mild and gentle but the herbs on the outside really do flavor the inside. In older cheeses the flavor is much more nutty with a lightly musty tang. Cheeses over two months old have the most concentrated flavor of all.
In order to comply with US FDA regulation for export to the USA the maturation of this cheese has been extended to over 60 days.