01
The brief
The specific quality of three in the morning when you are awake and the building is not. Ilse described the target as 'the smell of a stone floor'.
Trois Heures
Insomnia, and the room is very still
2 reviews~10h reported
Dry, grey and almost mineral. Cold incense and iris root over guaiac — the least sweet thing in the catalogue.
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- Longevity
- 9–10 hours
- Sillage
- Small and deliberate
- Season
- Year-round, most legible at night
- Perfumer
- Ilse Marchetti, 2024
Every order includes two 2ml samples of your choosing. Complimentary shipping above €150. Unopened bottles may be returned within 14 days.
The composition
Top
First ten minutes
Cold incense · Cypress · Juniper
Heart
The next two hours
Iris root · Papyrus · Violet leaf
Base
What stays
Guaiac wood · Cashmeran · Stone accord
How it was made
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The material
Iris root at this level is the single most expensive raw material we buy — six years from rhizome to usable butter. Paired with guaiac wood it produces a dry, powdery greyness that no synthetic reproduces convincingly.
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On skin
There is almost no opening. It arrives already settled: dry incense, cold wood, a trace of violet. Utterly linear for nine hours, which is either the appeal or the objection.
Worn by
4.5
- 10h on skin
Grey, in the best way
It smells like a cathedral floor. Completely linear and I have never wanted it to change.
- 9h on skin
Austere
Not a compliment-getter. Bought it for myself and wear it at home, which feels correct.
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