No. 1
Vestry
Cold stone, a choir between hymns, a candle just pinched out.
Frankincense, flint, beeswax, vetiver
50 ml, £145
Perfume for the hour after the candles.
Three scents made from the things that live in shadows: smoke, stone and other people’s coats. Bottled in small batches, in the dark.
Meet the threeHow a scent leaves you
The first fifteen minutes
Top notes
Bright and gone quickly, like the first sentence of a good rumour. Citrus peel, pink pepper, a struck match.
- Bergamot
- Pink pepper
- Matchstick
Hours one to four
Heart notes
The part people notice when you lean in to hear them. Warm, a little bruised, faintly church-like.
- Cardamom
- Iris
- Frankincense
Tomorrow morning, on your coat
Base notes
What stays after you’ve left the room. Soft leather, old wood, the skin of the person who wore it.
- Leather
- Cedar
- Ambergris accord
The three
Each one began as a single memory we couldn’t stop thinking about. Choose any to add a sample vial to your discovery set.
No. 2
Orchard After Rain
Bruised pears in the long grass, wet bark, the car still warm.
Pear, galbanum, oakmoss, white musk
50 ml, £145
No. 3
Late Train
Warm leather seats, cardamom from someone’s flask, the coat of a stranger asleep against the window.
Leather, cardamom, cedar, labdanum
50 ml, £160
We started with a question nobody asks a perfumer: what does the dark smell like?
Not nothing, it turns out. It smells of whatever the day left behind. Wax cooling in a chapel. Fruit nobody picked. The coat that sat next to you for two hundred miles and never said a word.
We make these in batches of four hundred, rest them for six weeks in a cellar, and bottle them by hand. Then we let them go home with you.
The house of shadows, est. 2019
Not sure yet? Wear all three for a week.
The discovery set holds three 2 ml vials. The £18 comes off your first full bottle.
Your set: none chosen yet. Add samples above, or take all three.
Concept demo: nothing is ordered.