Maison Noir Eau de Parfum

The house scent. Amber and iris over a base of black tea and cedar, composed to sit close to the skin rather than announce itself across a room. Dark, quiet and long-lasting.

Compounded in Grasse from an iris butter that takes three years to mature, with natural amber and a cedar distilled in the Atlas. The concentration is that of a true eau de parfum, at eighteen per cent.

Opens with a brief brightness of bergamot, settles within the hour into the iris, and stays for the evening as a warm amber trace on cuffs and collars.

One hundred millilitres in a heavy black glass flacon with a gold cap and the house mark in gold foil. The bottle is refillable at the atelier.

Presented in a black box lined in red. Keep it out of sunlight and it will hold its character for years.