SPECIMENS No. 001 — 075

One collector’s library, sold by the millilitre.

Ultraniche and indie bottles — Art & Olfaction winners, numbered editions, a few sold-out unicorns — drawn by hand into 2, 3, 5, and 10 ml vials.

BROWSE THE INDEX OUR METHOD
One collector’s library, sold by the millilitre.
I. PICK

Browse 75 fragrances, in two parts. The Index is the standing catalogue; Numbered holds the short runs and single pourings that cannot be reordered.

II. WE POUR

Each order is decanted by hand into a fresh glass vial, labeled and sealed the day it ships.

III. YOU WEAR

Live with a scent for weeks, not one rushed sniff at a counter. Then buy the bottle — or don’t.

Top

smoke · blood orange zest · blackcurrant absolute · juniper berry

Heart

coffee · frankincense · black honey · patchouli · tobacco absolute

Base

civet · ambergris · oud · tonka bean absolute · Australian sandalwood · labdanum · musk

Introducing

Devil's Breath

Blackcurrant and smoke opening into black honey and tonka — warm, dark, uncompromising.

Notes: blackcurrant, smoke, black honey, tonka, oud

New Arrivals & Coming Soon

Coming SoonNEW HOUSE · UNITED KINGDOM

Clive Christian

Jump Up and Kiss Me Hedonistic, from the Addictive Arts line. Black cherry and mate tea over a tobacco absolute that turns to maple and caramel, then leather and labdanum holding the floor. Twenty five percent parfum, and the house counts 203 materials in it.

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New ArrivalNEW HOUSE · ARGENTINA

Fueguia 1833

Alhambra has landed. Julian Bedel’s mountain rose over cistus, vetiver and black broom, from the 2018 Destinos collection. New York, made with Gabriela Hearst in numbered batches I to XXII, is still on the way.

New ArrivalSYLHOUETTE PARFUMS · NOW POURING

Sylhouette Parfums

La Peau d’Or and Bible Noire have both landed. Osmanthus and oolong over Vietnamese agarwood in one, olibanum and choya loban burned down under castoreum and Himalayan cedar in the other. Teen Spirit is on the shelf alongside them.

New ArrivalNEW HOUSE · FRANCE

Maison Jaxob

Eight parfums by Jacob Chimoni, 28 to 32 percent, decanted from 100 ml bottles. Sampled at 0.7, 1 and 2 ml, with an eight-vial discovery set at $69.

New ArrivalFOLKWINDS · UNITED STATES

Folkwinds

Devil’s Garden, a single pouring directed by Rajesh Balkrishnan. Mitti attar and Nepalese sichuan pepper over nagarmotha, copal and Indonesian oud, and not being remade.

New ArrivalNEBIRU PARFVMS · GERMANY

Nebiru Parfvms

Falkyr, Agrias Vetiveris II, Purple Soda and Kinam Kanagawa /40 are all in.

New ArrivalHUNAYN · 0.5 TO 2 ML

Hunayn

Hūt al-Shiḥr has landed. Adill Ali’s tashmis extrait at 25 percent, built on white ambergris macerated through a full summer, with orange blossom and champaca behind it. Melati Gaharu is in alongside it.

Editor's Picks

Rose, vetiver, pine, iris — the bottles I keep reaching for.

Browse the full Index →
◆Danse Lascive — Angelos Créations Olfactives Danse Lascive — Angelos Créations Olfactives
★Ici, le pas s'arrête — TERRA•T Ici, le pas s'arrête — TERRA•T
◆Iris Poulsard /513 — Danner & Flemming Iris Poulsard /513 — Danner & Flemming
◆Luban Al Akhdar — Amouage Luban Al Akhdar — Amouage
◆Monte Kush — Extra Virgo Monte Kush — Extra Virgo
Nawab of Oudh Intensivo — Ormonde Jayne Nawab of Oudh Intensivo — Ormonde Jayne
◆ORA — Mallo ORA — Mallo
◆Pothos — Angelos Créations Olfactives Pothos — Angelos Créations Olfactives
◆Serpent — Vapormundum Serpent — Vapormundum
◆Tundra /20 — Rivendare Tundra /20 — Rivendare
◆VAR — Mallo VAR — Mallo

Collections

THE INDEX

The standing catalogue.

47 bottles, poured by hand the day your order ships. Restocked when I can get them again.

  1. 001 Ghost Flower Altra FROM $22
  2. 002 Luban Al Akhdar Amouage FROM $44
  3. 003 Vanilla Barka AmouageNEW FROM $38
  4. 004 Suede Ibri AmouageNEW FROM $42
  5. 005 Soma Panorama Angelos Créations Olfactives FROM $18
  6. 006 Danse Lascive Angelos Créations Olfactives FROM $20
  7. 007 Pothos Angelos Créations Olfactives FROM $20
  8. 008 Pnoi (Πνοή) Angelos Créations Olfactives FROM $20.50
  9. 009 Zelen Boka FROM $27
  10. 010 Tabac Sura Byermia FragranceNEW FROM $28
  11. 011 Primo Piano Casati FROM $19
  12. 012 Jump Up and Kiss Me Hedonistic Clive ChristianNEW SOON
  13. 013 Nightchild Epichron FROM $17.50
  14. 014 Eclipse Ermetiche Fragranze FROM $13.50
  15. 015 Monte Kush Extra Virgo FROM $19.50
  16. 016 Alhambra Fueguia 1833NEW FROM $28
  17. 017 La Camionera Jouissance FROM $11.50
  18. 018 Vanitas LVNEA FROM $18
  19. 019 La Serpentine LVNEA FROM $19.50
  20. 020 Ambre Suprême Les IndémodablesNEW FROM $24
  21. 021 Devil's Breath Maison Jaxob FROM $12
  22. 022 Favourite Sin Maison Jaxob FROM $10
  23. 023 Poet's Potion Maison Jaxob FROM $10
  24. 024 Dramatic Pause Maison Jaxob FROM $11
SEE ALL 47 →
NUMBERED

Short runs and single pourings.

28 bottles I cannot reorder. Editions of twenty, of forty, a few that were only ever poured once. When one runs out it leaves the shelf for good.

Les Indémodables Les Indémodables Parfum Secret Opus 1 FROM $12 Through the Looking Glass — Folkwinds Folkwinds Through the Looking Glass SOON Pan's Labyrinth v2 — Lost Tribe Perfumes Lost Tribe Perfumes Pan's Labyrinth v2 SOON CHI — Mallo Mallo CHI FROM $15 New York — Fueguia 1833 x Gabriela Hearst Fueguia 1833 New York SOON Hūt al-Shiḥr — Hunayn Hunayn Hūt al-Shiḥr FROM $16.50
ALL 28 NUMBERED →

NOTES FROM THE BENCH

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Before you order

The things I would want to know if I were the one buying.

Bought retail

Every bottle came from the house or an authorized stockist, and I still have it. Batch codes are photographed and I will send you one on request, before or after you order.

Poured to order

Nothing sits pre-filled. Your vial is drawn by hand from the bottle in the photograph, then labelled with the fragrance, size and pour date.

If it arrives broken

Send photos within 48 hours and I will replace it or refund you. Otherwise sales are final, since a vial that has left here cannot go back into stock. That is the whole reason the sizes start small.