Archives | 15ml/50ml

Archives | 15ml/50ml

from €75.00

Archives include:

  • discontinued scents as custom made blends

  • past editions as custom made blends

  • perfumes with light defects, such as sediment, faded labels, etc.

See more details for custom blends below.

Please always conduct a standard patch test before using any botanical scent on skin.

Concentrations: EdC (Eau de Cologne), EdP (Eau de Parfum), ExdP (Extrait de Parfum), HdP (Huile de Parfum/Perfume Oil).

Notes

*Custom-Made Perfumes include free worldwide shipping with online tracking. They come in 2x50ml spray bottles (with gold or black caps) and original labels (cream or black, if available; otherwise black-and-white, in-house labels). Please allow 1-4 weeks for preparation before dispatch. The blend can also be packaged in 6x15ml spray bottles or 100ml flacons upon request. Note, that the blend may require a few weeks of aging before use.

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Custom Blends

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

    - Tennessee Williams

    Paper Moon, a throwback to a popular song sung by Blanche DuBois, is an innuendo of fragile human relationships, the intricacy of interlaced lives and situations with women-protagonists at the forefront.

    Fragrance: clear sweet, warm, delicate floral.

    Notes: rose leaf and flower, mimosa, helichrysum, petitgrain bergamot, coriander, vetiver and frankincense absolute.

  • Inspired by vintage & antique botanical art and early botanical still life photography, the scent reveals the beauty of classic florals, such as rose, jasmine, violet, mimosa, etc., in a lush fragrance bouquet.

    Fragrance: elegant & delicate, with a mellow floral heart.

    Notes: jasmine, rose, geranium, mimosa, violet, magnolia, iris, carnation.

  • 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

    The fragrance blends a troubled pastoral theme with an obsessive dark image of the subject.

    Fragrance: velvety green and earthy.

    Notes: bergamot, marjoram, lavender, clary sage, vetiver, frankincense, labdanum.

  • Last bottles, light natural sediment may be present which does not affect the scent quality.

    An ode to autumn and its hauntingly whimsical places: guelder rose, glistening golden fern, silver birch, green acorns, dusty moth wings, flaxen leaves, and tart bramble berries.

    INCI: Alcohol denat., Parfum*.

    * a blend of essential oils, absolutes, CO2 extracts, tinctures & their natural components.

  • I know that I have died before - once in November.
    - Anne Sexton

    A throwback to dark green places and life situations: a metaphor, an elusive allegory, and part of the landscape.

    Fragrance: dark warm green.

    Notes: black pepper, absynthe, pelargonium, fir needles, nard, wild fern, moss.

  • It was November - the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep, sad hymns of the sea, passionate wind-songs in the pines.
    - L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

    The scent of change and transition: sombre notes mixed with crushed wild berries and candied conifer resins, velvety earth, Italian porcini absolute with dark chocolate nuances and deep resinous fir balsam absolute.

    Fragrance: dark amber & sweet resins.

    Notes: petitgrain-bergamot, Italian porcini absolute, lavender, French clary sage, fir balsam absolute, vetiver, frankincense.

  • The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.
    - Karen Blixen

    Salt and lavender are one of the most amazing accords in botanical perfumery: the brine is the azure depth and the floral absolute is the heart, there is an earthy warmth as expressed by pimento berry (reminiscent of vintage carnations), dark tea like chamomile, aged patchouli and marjoram are the green pillars of the fragrance. Inspired by the summer sea before a storm. The colour of the perfume comes from French lavender absolute and algae tincture.

    Fragrance: velvety warm & salty floral.

    Notes: pimento berry, algae, marjoram, chamomile, lavender, aged patchouli.

  • There are such a lot of things that have no place in summer and autumn and spring. Everything that’s a little shy and a little rum. Some kinds of night animals and people that don’t fit in with others and that nobody really believes in. They keep out of the way all the year. And then when everything’s quiet and white and the nights are long and most people are asleep - then they appear.

    - Tove Jansson, Moominland Midwinter

    Fragrance: aged creamy woods & black musky earth.

    Notes: black pepper, white grapefruit, wintergreen, black spruce, juniper branch, silver fir, musk (cruelty free).

    As a result of plant chemistry the scent may have a slightly milky consistency. We may leave the shimmering blend as it is to highlight its creamy nuance.