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Pale wooden perfume blotter strips fanned on a white dish beside scattered beads
Top · bergamot
Heart · iris
Base · cedar
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on skin · the strip lies

Skin, then air.

Three perfumes. Fourteen materials. Four hours on the wrist.Built to be worn close, not sprayed into a room. Every scent is sampled on skin before we let you buy it, because the blotter never tells the truth.

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01 · Dry-down

Four hours, three shapes.

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hours on skin · No. 1
TopBergamot, pink pepper · 0–20 min
HeartIris, orris butter, violet leaf · 20 min–2 h
BaseCedar, ambrette, a little musk · 2–4 h
Top. The first twenty minutes.Bright, citrus, gone quickly. This is what the strip shows you in the shop. It's the least important part.
A plain square glass perfume bottle with a black cap on white marble, cap beside it
02 · What's in it

Fourteen materials.

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accords. Top, heart, base. Nothing that hides behind a fourth.

14

materials across the three. The formula is on the box, in order.

4 h

on skin before it's gone. Long enough. We don't chase twelve.

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aerosol. A stopper and a dab. Skin, not air.

A small glass vial with a black cap casting a long shadow on marble

Wrist, not strip.

The sample set is three vials and a card that says: put one on, wait two hours, then decide. Anyone who buys from the strip is buying the first twenty minutes.

The three

Three scents. Numbered, not named.

Names tell you what to feel. Numbers let you find out. Each one is listed by its materials, which is all a perfume is.

No. 1 · 30 ml · extraitOneBergamot, pink pepper · iris, orris, violet leaf · cedar, ambrette, musk

Powdery after the first hour. The one most people wear daily.

£118
No. 2 · 30 ml · extraitTwoFig leaf, green mandarin · tuberose, jasmine sambac · sandalwood, benzoin

Loud for twenty minutes, then close and warm. Evening, mostly.

£118
No. 3 · 30 ml · extraitThreeVetiver, cardamom · rose absolute, saffron · oud, labdanum, vanilla

The slow one. Nothing happens for an hour. Then it stays all day.

£132
How

How a scent gets made.

Slowly, on skin, by two people who disagree. Here's the order it happens in.

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Base firstThe part that lasts is built first. If the four-hour mark isn't right, nothing above it matters.
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Twenty wristsEvery version goes on twenty people for a day. Not strips. Not us. People with skin and jobs.
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Then the topThe first twenty minutes are written last, so they lead into the heart instead of showing off.
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Six weeks in the bottleMaceration. The materials settle into each other. We don't sell the first month.
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The formula on the boxEvery material, in order. If you're allergic to something, you'll see it before you open the lid.
Samples

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Three vials, two millilitres each, a card with the rule about waiting two hours. Nine pounds, taken off the bottle you choose. Most people choose a different number than the one they expected.

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