01 — Top note
Bitter orange, pressed cold
Seville peel, zested by hand the week it arrives. It is loud on purpose, and gone before you have finished your coffee.
Parfums lents — Ghent, since 2011
Perfume thatarrivesslowly.
Five fragrances composed the way a copper roof turns green — patiently, in weather, over years. Each batch rests four months before we pour it.
- 01 Media
- 02 Headline
- 03 Copy
- 04 Action
The house
We do not chase the first spray. We write for the hour after, when a perfume stops performing and starts to belong to the person wearing it.
- Fragrances in fifteen years
- 5
- Months each batch rests
- 4
- Bottles poured per batch
- 312
Anatomy of No. 1
Three movements,one afternoon.
- 01TopThe first fifteen minutes
- 02HeartHour one to hour four
- 03BaseStill there the next morning
02 — Heart note
Fig leaf after rain
Green, milky, a little bitter. The note the house is named for: the colour copper turns once weather has had its way with it.
03 — Base note
Labdanum and old vetiver
A resin we age for four months in glass. It sits close to the skin and is the part people ask about, usually the day after.
The atelier
A chapel roofthat took ninetywinters to turn.
We work under the copper roof of a deconsecrated chapel on the Koperstraat. Two perfumers, one organ loft of raw materials, and a cellar cool enough to let a resin settle without hurrying it.
The collection
Five perfumes, no flankers.
The sample ritual
Wear it for a week before you decide.
- 01
Request the tin
Five 2 ml vials in a folded copper tin. €18, credited in full against your first bottle.
- 02
Wear one a day
On skin, never on paper. At six in the evening, write down what you can still smell.
- 03
Choose slowly
Send the card back with one name on it. We pour your bottle from the batch that is resting now.