$12.00
This perfume is both nostalgic and ceremonial, like a warm hug, glowing smile and a reassuring hand of a benevolent ancestor. A safe place in one's heart and dreams. It is simultaneously the first and the last friendly place you'd ever encounter on a long journey.
Cocaigne perfume is a tribute to my Grandma, Ruth Moriel. A woman of this world and at the same time a mythical creature whose powers transcend that of a mere mortal. Her memory is forever blessed with strings of orange corals and sea foam, araucaria resin smoke, clouds of cinnamon and baked apple vapour, and wrapped in veils of Hawaiian sandalwood and frangipani leis.
On one of my last visits to my grandmother's home, she gifted me with "The Joy of Cooking". In it I found a recurring word I could not understand, and when looking it up I learned it is the Land of Plenty, a place for gluttons par excellence. I immediately thought it was the perfect name for a perfume tribute to my grandma. I hope that it will bring comfort, solace and a sense of place to anyone in need of either.
Notes: Ginger, Cinnamon, Cape Chamomile, Petitgrain Absolute, Jasmine, Hawaiian Sandalwood, Atlas Cedar, Sweetgrass, Bushman's Candle, Palo Santo, Vanilla, Araucaria
Fragrance family: Floral-Aldehydic, Ambery-Incense
$12.00
My first initiation to the world of perfume was through the path incense - a road covered with dust of the ages and redolent of spice caravans and ancient ceremonies and secrets.
Incense is the most ancient form of perfume, a well-travelled creature that has been covered by the dust of time like a well-worn traveller on the desert routes of spice and medicine.
Yet, distilling the scent of incense is even harder than capturing the flutter of a butterfly's wings and the scent of a delicate flower. Dance of Fire perfume showcases the beauty and depth of ancient resins and allows the scent of wafting, swirling smokes to caress one's skin. At its heart are frankincense, nagramotha, lovage and a prehistoric fossilized amber resin from Tibet, lending it an almost realistic smoky veil.
The new perfume was released into the ether 22.02.2022
Top notes: Virginia Cedarwood, Sweet Orange
Heart notes: Frankincense, Cistus, Guaicwood, Liquidambar
Base notes: Tibetan Amber, Labdanum, Benzoin, Don Quai, Lovage
Fragrance family: Ambery-Incense, Smoky
$12.00
Free5!a is an ode to one of the most ephemeral flowers, that elludes distillation. It's green and peppery, yet soft and delicate perfume can be created with a lot of imagination and a pinch of stubbornness, and the purest ingredients chosen to create an all-natural Freesia soliflore, sheer and bright as a raindrop on a flower stem, clear and free of pretence.
Fragrance family: Soliflore
Free5!a was launched 23.03.2023
$18.00
Malabi, the queen of Middle Eastern summer desserts, is a milk pudding served chilled and bejewelled by a fragrant rosy syrup. But what always captured the perfumer's imagination the most about malabi was its soft, evocatively sounding name, and its unique fragrant combination of rosewater and neroli. Two noble flowers, yet so distinctively different that it's surprising they would ever get along at all. Rose is open, voluptuous, sweet and feminine. Neroli is prim and proper, restrained, clean, ethereal and otherworldly that you'd be surprised it grows on a tree. And what holds these two together is nothing but pure, botanical musk. This gentle deer-musk-like accord doesn't need arrows, and plays the harp better than cupid: it walks silently and pulls all the strings with effortless fluidity.
Top notes: Bitter Orange, Blood Orange, Cardamom, Coriander
Heart notes: Neroli (Tunisia), Orange Blossom Absolute, Rose Absolute (Bulgaria), Rose Absolute (Turkey),
Base notes: Atlas Cedarwood, Musk Notes, Myrrh
Fragrance Families: Floral, Gourmand
$12.00
This equinox night is as warm as daylight itself. A breeze from distant countries brings in the scent of citrus orchards. We are walking in a dream, in our respective home countries: A courtyard in West Amman. An Orchard in Old Jaffa. A garden in Aleppo. Common scents that overcome all worldly conflicts.
Savoured the salty sea air. Faces buried in the white blooming foliage of Clematis armandii and soft hair. We're overcome by a shower of meteorites; Nostrils drowned by the dreamy orange blossom scent. Sitting under wild cherry trees, whose white petals fall one by one into the black pond. Even this beautiful moment will soon disappear into the bleak past.
'Smile to me when you cry', you say. 'so I can see the real you'. The windows to my soul bleeding and shining at the same time.
We will never forget that night. It was equal to the day. It was warm. And after this night the days will be longer and lonelier. Painfully sober save for a sip of tears and a puff of clematis breath of this black heart perfume.
This new perfume is a blank slate in the shape of a black heart upon which you can write and re-write your lover's past, present and future.
Top notes: Cardamom, Mint
Heart notes: Clematis Accord, Salty Tears
Base notes: Incense, Musk
Fragrance Families: Salty Floral, Floral-Ambery