Wet terracotta · Geranium stem
from €140
Maison OÛR · Grasse
Every scent isa single hour
Nine fragrances. Each one fixes a moment — the hour the light turns, the hour a room empties — and refuses to be worn as anything else.
Act I
A fragrance house that writes fiction and happens to bottle it
Most perfume begins with a market. Ours begins with a scene — a harbour before dawn, a greenhouse in August, a bar after the music stops — and the formula is only finished when the scene is recognisable.
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- Fragrances
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- Perfumers
- 28%
- Peak concentration
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- Reformulations
Act II
Four collections
The Hours came first. Nocturnes went heavier. The Garden Series is the least commercial thing we make, and Editions exist only while a harvest does.
Amber · 2022
Dix-Huit Heures
The hour the light turns gold
Top
First ten minutes
Blood orange · Saffron · Pink pepper
Heart
The next two hours
Immortelle · Beeswax · Orris butter
Base
What stays
Labdanum · Tonka · Sandalwood
The colour of six o'clock light in late September, rendered as smell. Warmth without sugar was the whole difficulty — every material that reads golden also reads sweet.
Ilse Marchetti, perfumer
Act IV
Most recent
Three fragrances added since the last catalogue was printed.
Jasmine sambac · Orris butter
from €210
Wet rope · Sea salt
from €130
Immortelle · Beeswax
from €150
Fig leaf · Vetiver root
from €160
Five questions
Tell us what you refuse, and we will tell you what to wear
An hour, a material, a climate, a presence, an aversion. Five answers place you in a profile, and the profile places you in a fragrance — with the reasoning shown.
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“A fragrance that smells expensive is a failure. It should smell like something that happened to you.”