Perfumer H · Salt
Rosemary, white sage, iris root. Harris named it Salt: herbs and mineral left on skin after a day by water.
London
Perfumer H
Amsterdam
Nasomatto
Puglia
Orto Parisi
Paris
Bienaimé 1935
Paris
Obvious
On the table
The perfumes
Magazine
Magazine
Cover · Obvious · 10 min
Floridita's Night is a Havana bar
Obvious named it after El Floridita, where Hemingway drank. Rum, cigar leaf, tonka. Official notes: cardamom, a double daiquiri accord, myrrh, then vetiver, papyrus and patchouli.
Perfumer H · 12 min
Perfumer H in Macau
Rosemary, white sage, iris root. Harris named it Salt: herbs and mineral left on skin after a day by water. Macau is already by the sea. This is what it smells like, why it belongs here, and how we read it in the shop.
Perfumer H · 16 min
How Lyn Harris names a perfume
Ink, Moss, Salt, Vetiver. Each eau is named for a material as she smells it. The name is the brief. The juice has to answer it.
Perfumer H · 14 min
Michael Ruh, and the bottle you keep
The 50ml on the table is the standard bottle. The 100ml you keep is handblown by Michael Ruh in London, engraved, and made to be refilled for life. They are not the same object.
Nasomatto · 15 min
Alessandro Gualtieri does not print a pyramid
Nasomatto means crazy nose. The notes stay unpublished. The brief is the feeling he wrote down.
Orto Parisi · 16 min
Orto Parisi and the garden in Puglia
Gualtieri dedicated the house to his grandfather Vincenzo Parisi, who fertilised a garden with whatever the body left behind.
Bienaimé 1935 · 14 min
Bienaimé, 1935 to 2021
Robert Bienaimé opened the house as a chemist-perfumer. Cécilia Mergui brought it back without turning it into costume drama.
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Read a scent
The flagship is built like a volume of pages. A scent is written on skin before it is understood.
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Layering
One name from wash to eau, or two perfumes in concert — each voice distinct, then together.
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A private composition
From what already made sense on you, a small bottle composed for one reader.
Come in, or take a bottle home
Order from the shop, or visit and read it on skin first.