N° 01MMXXIV
Ambre Nuit
Amber · Oud · Labdanum
"A resinous hush before dawn."
- Conc.
- Extrait
- Vol.
- 50 ml
- Prix
- € 285
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N° 01 · Ambre NuitÉdition Limitée — 300 flaconsMMXXVI
— Chapitre I · Ouverture
Thescentofaquiethour.
Distilled in Grasse over eighteen months. Precious naturals, glass blown by hand, and a promise kept in every phial.
Enter the ExhibitionScroll — Éveil des sens
Chapitre II
Manifeste — MMXXVI
We do not manufacture.
We wait — and then
we compose.
A perfume, for us, is a small architecture of memory. A room you cannot enter, kept upright by resins, roots, and the weather of a particular year in the south of France.
We release nothing until it is finished, and we do not consult the calendar. Some compositions take eighteen months. Some take four winters. All of them, in the end, are quiet.
Chapitre III · Grasse
— A field, at four in the morning
Before the sun,
the rose is colder —
and infinitely more honest.
Fifteen kilograms of damascena become a single gram of absolute. It is not efficient. It has never been. It is, however, the only way to speak the truth about a flower.
Chapitre IV
La Collection
Four flacons,
on exhibition.
01 / 04
Swipe →04 flacons
N° 02MMXXV
Rosée d'Aube
Rose · Iris · Musk
"Damascena picked at four in the morning."
- Conc.
- Eau de Parfum
- Vol.
- 50 ml
- Prix
- € 240
N° 03MMXXV
Éclat Vert
Fig · Vetiver · Cedar
"A Ligurian orchard after summer rain."
- Conc.
- Eau de Parfum
- Vol.
- 50 ml
- Prix
- € 260
N° 04MMXXVI
Obsidienne
Leather · Smoke · Tonka
"Smoke of vetiver, closed inside a black stone."
- Conc.
- Extrait
- Vol.
- 50 ml
- Prix
- € 320
Chapitre V · La Matière
One drop,
held to the light,
for eighteen months.
Each essence is macerated slowly in neutral alcohol — a period our perfumers call l'attente, the waiting. The molecules unfold. The rough edges soften. What was raw becomes composed.
18
mois d'attente
96
raw materials
300
flacons / batch
Chapitre VI · L'Atelier
Five gestures,
repeated slowly,
for a decade.
- 01 — La Cueillette
Roses picked in the dark, before the sun disturbs the oil.
- 02 — La Distillation
Copper stills, low heat, patience. A thousand kilos of petal for a thimble of soul.
- 03 — La Macération
Absolutes rest in neutral alcohol for a year, sometimes four, in oak-lined cellars.
- 04 — L'Assemblage
The perfumer composes at a wooden organ of 500 raw materials, without hurry.
- 05 — Le Flacon
Crystal blown by hand in Biot, closed by a single wax seal and a numbered card.
Bergamote·Iris pallida·Oud sauvage·Ambre gris·Néroli·Ciste labdanum·Vétiver haïtien·
Bergamote·Iris pallida·Oud sauvage·Ambre gris·Néroli·Ciste labdanum·Vétiver haïtien·
Chapitre VII
An alphabet
of raw materials.
Composition A
- Tête
- Bergamot of Calabria
- Cœur
- Damascena Rose
- Fond
- Mysore Sandalwood
Composition B
- Tête
- Sicilian Neroli
- Cœur
- Grasse Jasmine
- Fond
- Laotian Oud
Composition C
- Tête
- Pink Pepper
- Cœur
- Orris Butter
- Fond
- Ambergris
