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Dawn · Top

Remaining 100%

Specimen 21 · Nocturne

26% extrait

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Bergamot peel releasing citrus oil in cold morning light

Measured
in hours.

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Top · Bergamot

Bergamot pressed at dawn, a split of pink pepper. Twelve minutes of it, and then it is gone for good.

Loudest it will ever be.

Volatility

HIGH

Remaining

100%

Sillage

1.4 m

Concentration

26% extrait

01 — Readout

Every fragrance is a decay curve. Most houses only show you the first point.

Worn on skin · 22°C · indoors · log time axis

97% 75% 47% 5%

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Bergamot · pink pepper

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Top

Bergamot · pink pepper

97% remaining

Jasmine sambac · orris · smoke

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Heart

Jasmine sambac · orris · smoke

75% remaining

Amber resin · sandalwood

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Base

Amber resin · sandalwood

47% remaining

Skin musk · worn cashmere

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Dry-down

Skin musk · worn cashmere

5% remaining

The bottle at the eighth hour, beside worn cashmere

The eighth hour is the only one we cannot photograph. By then it is on someone else's collar, and they have gone home.

A perfumer's organ desk of amber sample vials and a brass pipette

03 — Method

Eight weeks of maceration. Most houses give it two.

Time is the only ingredient we cannot buy more cheaply. Every batch rests in steel until the top and the base stop arguing with each other.

  • 01

    Naturals sourced by harvest, not by contract year

    Grasse

  • 02

    22–26% extrait concentration, never diluted to fill a bottle

    ±2%

  • 03

    Eight-week maceration, batch-numbered on the base

    56 d

  • 04

    Bottled by hand, four hundred units per run

    400 u