...it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. - Nina Simone

A study on early, classic jazz: a rich, polyphonic texture of syncopation and rhythm, instrumentation and improvisation in a dry, slightly smoky and powdery scent of black tea, cardamom, black pepper, cloves, cocoa, coffee, porcini, botanical musk & leather.

I seek to show the dignity and beauty of people who are often overlooked. - Consuelo Kanaga

Understanding the nuanced portrayal of the human experience and seeing the quiet grace of the marginalised through the lens reimagined in an amber floral scent with an earthy spicy undertone with the notes of rose geranium, carnation, coriander, nutmeg absolute, incense and peru balm.

In the window full of sunlight

Concentrates her golden shadow

Fold on fold, until it glows as

Mellow as the glory roses.

- D.H. Lawrence

Reflections on the frail, languid, intimate and fleeting moments... A combination of subtle tea rose accords and dark earth nuances, soft rosy and beige as the colour of skin: rooibos, white tea, white rose, cepes, orris, vetiver.

Je t'adore à l'égal de la voûte nocturne,

Ô vase de tristesse, ô grande taciturne,

Et t'aime d'autant plus, belle, que tu me fuis,

Et que tu me parais, ornement de mes nuits,

Plus ironiquement accumuler les lieues

Qui séparent mes bras des immensités bleues.

- Charles Baudelaire

The ‘blue immensity’, a ‘vase of sadness’, a nocturnal poem, the shadow archetype as seen by Jung, the darker, unknown and frail part of ourselves.

(available soon)

To tangle or untangle

the willow -

it's up to the wind. - Fukuda Chiyo-ni

A delicate & meditative blend interweaving the philosophy of minimalist transient aesthetics of haiku & botanical scent: green tea, magnolia, cypress, lemon balm, lemon verbena, moss, laurel leaf, tarragon.

Fantasy is escapist… If we value the freedom of mind and soul… then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can! - J.R.R. Tolkien

The making of a myth… Set in a fictional universe of reverie, ancestral herbalism, folklore and early botanical perfumery in a dry spicy floral scent: black liquorice, dragonhead, artemisia, blue tansy, fragonia, angelica, resins.

We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. - H.P. Lovecraft

On the mythos of ‘the unknowable and incomprehensible’, the limits of human understanding, the indifferent cosmos around us reimagined in the nebulous and obscure scent: dark patchouli, artemisia, blood orange, nagarmotha and musky hyraceum (cruelty free).

The night is often the secret site of initiation, purification, and other threshold activities bridging the relation between what is human and what is not human and providing a context for changed roles and states of being…. - Susan Stewart

A classical composition by Maria Szymanowska and a nocturnal perfume study of the cry of the solitary, the moment of dreaminess, reverie, in the presence of nothingness, in the (be) witching hour of obscurity, an exploration of the self when all is asleep in the dark and dreamy floral scent with the notes of carnation, whole rose, coriander, nutmeg, cocoa, labdanum, peru balm and guaiac heart.

The art of making perfume is a matter of balancing the elements of nature with the subtleties of human imagination. - Marie Antoinette

An antique fougere scent exploration of the first perfume formulas and the quintessential aromatic materials of the first timeless fragrances such as Hungary Water, Eau de Cologne, Bay Rum, etc. based on flowers, herbs & spices: lemon, marjoram, laurel leaf, pimento berry, English lavender, oakmoss.

… they wanted to promote a new modernist aesthetic that was based on precisely exposed images of natural forms and found objects. - Seizing the Light: A History of Photography by Robert Hirsch

Orgeval Garden explores the aesthetic of classic American fine art photography, mainly Group f.64, one of the first modern art movements equally defined by women, & its initial influencers through botanical scent.

We're all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. - Tennessee Williams

A throwback to a popular song sung by Blanche DuBois, an innuendo of fragile human relationships, the intricacy of interlaced lives and situations with women-protagonists at the forefront in a clear warm, delicate scent with the notes of rose leaf and flower, mimosa, helichrysum, petitgrain bergamot, coriander, vetiver and frankincense absolute.

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose. – Gertrude Stein, Sacred Emily

The elegant & delicate rose composition inspired by antique botanical illustrations with Rose de Mai and Rose Otto as the centerpiece as well as rose geranium, geranium Bourbon, palmarosa, rock rose, rosewood (certified CITES).

You burn me... - Sappho (Fragment 38)

Blending the archaic, the carnal and the sapphic the 'perfume medium' makes any natural perfume last longer and get an amazing warm depth. Based on animalic notes (particularly ambra) recreated using botanical ingredients the scent is leathery, musky, yet elegant and unisex with a touch of jasmine and cocoa. The fragrance can be worn on its own or layered as the base for any natural perfume to enhance aromas.

The earth is a living thing and we are merely its wandering thoughts. - Mary Oliver

Learn attention, love for nature, see the birds leaving and returning to the black ponds, go for long walks in the woods, watch whales and shellfish, all essential, all vital… the scent of warm driftwood & glistening sea foam: sea fennel, golden rod, juniper berry & branch, cedarwood, yarrow, spruce, savory, willd rosemary & lavender.

I have been in the meadows all the day, and am dripping with dew, so you must please excuse me. - Emily Dickinson

A classic botanical perfume with a luminous soft green floral character re-envisioning the nostalgic, introspective and lyrical letters of Emily Dickinson to Susan Gilbert Dickinson: mandarin, rose, lavender, patchouli, orris root, violet.

Why are you so busy with this or that or good or bad, pay attention to how things blend. - Rumi

Shifting the boundaries between religion, the aesthetics of words, mysticism, dance and meditation practices, the sweet floral and slightly smoky scent combines galbanum, jasmine, ylang ylang, mimosa, tonka bean and labdanum.

The camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished steel or palpitating flesh. - Edward Weston

Rejecting pictorialism in art/life to see the essence of commonplace (found) objects... the verdant and powdery floral scent combines the notes of seaweed, orris root, red bergamot, violets, green tea, green myrtle, mint absolute, jasmine and geranium absolute.

There was a star riding through clouds one night, and I said to the star, 'Consume me'. - Virginia Woolf

An expression of yearning for transcendence and annihilation, captured through a series of soliloquies intertwined with the natural soft green, salty and earthy imagery of 'The Waves': green tea, bergamot, seaweed, cypress, cepes, botanical ambra.

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together. - W. Shakespeare

The scent of earth, leafage, roots, soil and morning dew drops... Reflecting on time, change, aging, lust and love the shimmering and slightly lemony scent blends natural and human life cycles, creating elusive poetic 'figures of delight': sage, basil, thyme, ginger, may chang, cypress, geranium Bourbon, olibanum, vetiver.

June dawns, July noons, August evenings... the dandelion wine stood in the cellar, numbered huge for each and every day. - Dandelion Wine, Ray Bradbury

Mellow, warm and creamy, made of wild flowers, dreams, nostalgic moments with a touch of golden apples and heady summer noons, dandelion wine is the epitome of summer days: magnolia flower, ginger, bergamot, marigold, mimosa leaf & flower, Tuscan lavender, white cognac, ylang ylang, pemou wood.

A soothing lavender bouquet combines aromatherapy and perfumery: lavender vera, lavender spike, lavandin, wild lavender vera, wild lavender stoechade.

In Scotland, I found a place where time seemed to stand still, where the rhythms of life were rooted in the land itself. - Paul Strand

An enveloping and salty scent with aqueous fougere notes of salt, juniper berry, seaweed, hay, moss and black pepper absolute inspired by the Hebrides (Scotland), ‘the land of bent marram grass’ and the traditional Gaelic culture.

What might it mean about the twenty-first century idea of self that we are so increasingly captivated by the villanelle? Based in communal dance rather than individual song, spiralling back repeatedly to the same refrains, often moving from obsession to acceptance through the simple movements of repetition, perhaps the villanelle teaches us something about sharing and returning, integrating, and learning to let go: good lessons for our time. - Annie Finch, Villanelles by Everyman's Library

A poem, a song, a fragrance, a character… the earthy, velvety, verdant floral scent blends a troubled pastoral theme with an obsessive dark image of the subject: bergamot-petitgrain, marjoram, lavender, clary sage, vetiver, frankincense, labdanum.