Strange Invisible Perfumes

L’Invisible evokes 1930s Paris, when warm florals perfumed mirrored rooms and glittering salons. However, beneath its classic elegance lies a modern texture—the faintest touch of crackling earth.

In this gilded scent, a mélange of citrus and flowers rests on velvety oakmoss, a botanical fixative that allows the luscious warmth of resins and vanilla to linger with a certain je ne sais quoi. Though highly versatile and suited to any season, L’invisible is particularly fitting for the soirées that fill one’s calendar this time of year.

Before Halloween, there was Samhain, an ancient Gaelic festival honoring nature’s cycles of life and death. Falling halfway between summer and winter, Celts believed the boundary between our world and the Otherworld blurred on this night, allowing the deceased to cross over. 

Rooted in animism, celebrants saw the natural world as alive, with every tree, leaf, and petal possessing its own spirit. On Samhain, these nature spirits were said to roam alongside the dead, while fragrant plants were called upon to aid in ritual. 

The strange, invisible beauty of plants has always inspired our perfumery, and their mystical place in Gaelic tradition is no exception. In this spirit, we’re looking closer at three botanicals with fascinating roles to play in the festivities...

While cozy, golden scents always suit the season, perhaps you’re inclined toward something a little less familiar. These three offer a fitting departure from the usual fall palette.

✨Velvety and moss-green, Fair Verona has the depth and texture fall calls for, but Italian citruses sparkling through balmy, berried jasmine give it an unexpected lift.

🌹Prima Ballerina mirrors autumn’s invigorating air with a harmony of organic rose, tart lime, and herbaceous sage—a light, lively alternative to the season’s more sumptuous scents.

🍃In Aquarian Rose, fresh leaves and stems drift through sandalwood like early morning mist, leaving a diffused green trail where you might expect warmth.

Dark Floral Folklore, Volume III: The Spirit of Iris 🌈

In Greek mythology, the goddess Iris personified the rainbow. Her floral namesake happens to be one of our favorites, though the connection between them is more mysterious than you might imagine.

This time of year, that lore lends new depth to the scent note. Resting beneath the soil, iris root’s soft, earthy redolence hints at a story that reaches beyond the living world...

Dark Floral Folklore, Volume II: The Ghost of Gardenia 🕊️ 

We know the gardenia for its formidable sweetness, but in the Chinese lore of ghost brides, this heady bloom takes on a rather otherworldly presence. 

Epic Gardenia tells its own story, one of tropical blooms and mid-century glamour. But with its larger-than-life beauty, it’s easy to understand how different cultures might imagine the flower transcending this life into the next…

Dark Floral Folklore, Volume I: The Thorns of Love 🌹

The red rose—the consummate flower of romance. Yet beneath its velvety petals, a tragic Greek love story tinges rose’s familiar beauty and rich fragrance with deeper passion and sorrow. Swipe to discover how the tale unfolds...

Libra is a connoisseur of beauty and balance with charm to spare. With its airy, golden sillage, Libra Eau de Parfum amplifies this air sign’s elegance and wit with every spritz. No Libra placement required!

Centering essences of organic rose, grapefruit, and iris fulfill Libra’s unyielding need for beauty, while golden champa, wildcrafted myrtle, and organic basil calm Libra’s tendency to worry.

As Halloween approaches, we turn to a tale of flowers and fatal romance…

In Émile Zola’s 19th-century novel, The Sin of Father Mouret, Albine grows up wild and alone in an abandoned, overgrown garden. Abruptly left by her lover one day, she resolves to mend her broken heart by dying among the flowers. “It was, indeed, [the garden] that was about to teach her to die, as, indeed, it had taught her to love.”

Albine fills her bo***ir with all the fragrant flowers she can find, sealing every crack and crevice with aromatic herbs before laying in her tomb of blooms and letting their perfumes overtake her: “they were singing to her a soft strange melody of fragrance, which slowly and very gently lulled her to sleep.”

Pictured is John Collier’s haunting 1895 depiction of Albine’s tragic end.

Some of the most enchanting aromas evade distillation—violet, gardenia, lilac, leather, and sea air, to name a few. Luckily, our perfumer loves a good challenge…

Using purely botanical essences, Alexandra composes proprietary scent impressions called “botanical accords” to evoke elusive scents that cannot be distilled.

Black Rosette is a rose for rule-breakers, with the defiant presence of leather eclipsing all traces of florality.

Daydreaming about who might rock our cult-classic scent, our founder and perfumer, Alexandra, pictured three icons whose rebellious spirits have long inspired her…