Latest Fragrance Arrival

Malagasy is the third release of the Miller et Bertaux series inspired by the travels of founders Francis Miller and Patrick Bertaux (menta y menta and Pimento +++ are the first two releases).

Malagasy is the evocation of a trip to the heart of the island of Madagascar, in search of a native plant. A treasure that bears the name of voatsiperifery, commonly known as wild pepper.

This balanced fragrance, with woody and floral notes, enhanced by a citrus freshness brought by the essential oil of lemon and orange, is at the height of this rare pepper and reveals all the authenticity and richness of this island where unique flora and fauna flourish.

• Top Notes: Bergamot, pink berries, cistus
• Middle Notes: Wild pepper, nutmeg, cloves
• Base Notes: Cedarwood, guaiac wood, patchouli, moss

“What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger.”

I belong to the aristocracy of the forest. The Nietzsche quotation fits me very well.

I am Aquilaria Crassna and when I am under attack, I secrete a mythic resin which makes me more precious than gold.

• Top Notes: Cardamom essence, Italian bergamot, pink berries CO2
• Heart Notes: Oud essence, papyrus, sage , elémi 
• Base Notes: Virginian cedar, vétiver Haïti, saffron, leather

A memory of India, steeped in the rich and airy fragrance of jasmine sambac and the creamier scent of sandalwood, is what guided the composition of Madurai. A fragrance that stirs the senses with vibrant notes of citrus and turmeric, like a colorful market stall.

About the flacon: The plate of Madurai is inspired by the hypnotic motifs that can be found on the ceiling of the temple.

The perfumer's word: "I created Madurai thinking about a wonderful trip to South India a few years ago. I remember one morning, sitting on a small terrace drinking tea. All my senses were alert. In the warm air, the intoxicating perfume of the flower sellers; the power of the spices and the sweetness of the mangoes from the stalls…. The rich and airy jasmine sambac of the offering necklaces and the creamy scent of sandalwood around the temples." / Gaël Montero.

Notes: Turmeric, Sambac jasmine, peach absolute, Italian bergamot, clary sage, Indian tuberose absolute, Egyptian jasmine, tagete oil, Australian sandalwood, suede accord

Grand Beau – a day by the sea, a few steps beyond the nearest dunes, eyes closed, in the shade beneath the pine trees.  In the distance the roar of the breaking waves. Caressing the skin a salty breeze with a hint of dry driftwood and the tang of damp seaweed.

Radiant fresh and bright shining, this is how Grand Beau can be described best. Grand Beau is a French phrase that describes both, a weekend under a blue sky, and that beautiful person we would like to be – mature in spirit and elegant in appearance.

Grand Beau offers a complex blend of high-quality, natural and refreshing absolues. Enhanced by the potent presence of the earthy, woody molecules circling round the tuberose at its heart.

A spicy warmth of pine absolue, the gin evoking freshness of the juniper berry, tart and green, infused with angelica root.

How charming the presence of the bloom in the tuberose absolue. How calming its interaction with vetiver and olibanum.

Dry, subtly salty seaweed combines with musk and amber notes to lend the perfume infinite grace and beauty.

Grand Beau is ingeniously structured yet interwoven with a distinct air of mystery.

• Top Notes: Pine absolue, juniper berry, angelica root
• Middle Notes: Tuberose absolue, olibanum, vetiver
• Base Notes: Ambrette, seaweed absolue, ambrocenide

An extraordinary floral perfume, which belonged to George Sand in the 19th century and was recreated by Dominique Ropion.

A unique scent of heady Turkish damascena, the noblest and most luxurious of all roses. To this is combined, reinforcing its seductive powers, earthy, woody, highly sensual patchouli, as well as the refined, powdery notes of iris, floral and heady ylang ylang, and vetiver, that smoky, leathery essence with a fiery temperament.

30ml Spray

The oldest perfume in the world, unique and mysterious, used more than 3000 years ago in Egypt recreated by Dominique Ropion.

Here merges the intense warmth of honeyed, woody broom flower, mystical and potent myrrh that flows from the tree in spicy yet sweet white tears, rustic lentisk or balm of Gilead, fresh and green, and calamus, with its astonishing scent of herbs, spices and wood, that grows in dense clumps on the peaceful banks of the Nile.

30ml Spray

Ancient perfume, formulated 2000 years ago for the king of the Parthians, with invigorating vegetal notes re-created by Dominique Ropion.

Artaban is a pure, telluric and wild concentrate of the wonders of the plant world. We delight in its heady scents: bittersweet marjoram with its small, green, rounded leaves exhaling a delicious aroma; cardamom, with its fresh, spicy, aniseed tang, like a bracing gust of wind; cistus labdanum, whose white flowers adorned with crimson dots gave it the name “tears of Christ”; sweet, vanilla amber, with its scent of incense; and warm cinnamon, humanity’s most ancient spice.

3 perfumes and a book to dive into the incredible history of forgotten ancient perfumes.

The book, lead-printed in the typographic workshops of the house, is bilingual and illustrated by artist Eva Jospin. The three 10 ml glass bottles are topped with a black cap with the A.V. logo.

Long ago in Norse sagas from the thirteenth century, I was described as the largest monster of the sea, giving rise to all fears as well as to the oldest myths. A colossal creature capable of capsizing and swallowing an entire ship with its crew.

Rising up from the watery depths with my tentacled arms, I haunt nights at sea with my abyssal scent. I am a giant monster that can devour immense wooden hulls, and I cannot be defeated. More powerful than winds and tides, I am the Kraken, a creature of the depths. ABYSSIS is my sea power..

Abyssis is part of the Les Eaux des Bermudes collection.

• Top Notes: Calypsone, pepper white CO2 Indonesie, black pepper
• Middle Notes: Cedarwood, Morocco orpur, sandalwood, ambrofix
• Base Notes: Styrax, cosmone, sylkolide
• Olfactive Group: Woody | Ozone

Made by men who dream of far-off places and distant voyages, floating in the middle of the ocean. A wooden ship, my hull is infused with salty water, caressed by waves.

Navigating the border between air and water, I am the frontier between two elements. While my hold protects treasures of scents, rich with citruses and rare spices, my sails fill with iodized wind and blazing sun. I embrace mist and I brave storms. I defy the furious waves with my love for joyful, dangerous seas. I am a drunken boat of odysseys. NAVIS is your journey.

Navis is part of the Les Eaux des Bermudes collection.

• Top Notes: Ambrette seed, pink peppercorn, grapefruit, bergamot
• Middle Notes: Laminaria algea
• Base Notes: Oak moss, amyris, cedarwood
• Olfactive Group: Woody | Ozone

Languid on my salty rock, I am the daughter of a river god and a muse. My song is a bewitching whisper traveling over the waves like an irresistible, enchanting perfume.

My divine voice is one with my magical powers, making sailors lose their way. Famous navigators say they have encountered me near archipelagos where I love to play my charms. I am a mythical creature, half-woman, half-fish. Beautiful and supernatural, I am the Siren. Can you resist my song of love? SIRENIS will be your temptation.

Sirenis is part of the Les Eaux des Bermudes collection.

• Top Notes: Bergamot, clary sage, cardamom, marine accord
• Middle Notes: Driftwood, rose, transparent flower, genet, sandalwood
• Base Notes: Amber, musk, patchouli, moss, vetiver
• Olfactive Group: Woody | Ozone

Phantasma: L’Eau des Levres – (fr) Water of the Lips

Phantasma is a hallucination, a fantasy of the spirit. The ghost of your deep-seated desires, of your hidden thoughts. Who wakes up your secret impulses.

Notes: Black tea, yuzu, rice powder, ginger, juniper, sensual wood

Phantasma is part of the Les Humeurs Trilogy collection

“In ancient medicine, the body was held in balance thanks to four humours, precious liquids within the body described by hippocrates, to ensure harmony and to restore balance and spirit.

Drawing inspiration from this theory, the Humeurs trilogy aims to summon perfume and its power to focus our emotions, enhance reality and disturb and heighten our senses. With these subtle olfactory potions, Liquides Imaginaires offers you a chance to unleash the strength of your imagination”.

"At Frapin, we work and live far from the major cities. Our personal and professional lives follow the circadian rhythm of days and nights, the changing of the seasons, the wind blowing in the trees.

This closeness to nature sustains us more than one might think. We model nature and are modelled by it, surrounded as we are by meadows, vines, rivers and woods.

This proximity is the hallmark of our style, our essence, our elegance. We admire wood, work it, drink it and smell it. This wood is our age-old wisdom. We listen to its lessons and secrets. Its verticality shows us the only way forward, that of ascending. It is at times hot, enveloping, aromatic or deep. It strongly underscores our style; that of Bois Blanc." ...  P. Frapin

A captivating fragrance by perfumer Bertrand Duchaufour with notes of Tuscan leather, whiskey accord and oak moss.  A soft honey note and black amber bring a smooth and well-balanced character to this enveloping Eau de Parfum.

A dedication and a keeper of memories it expresses love and admiration. Like a magical cover it wraps you up creating a feeling of calmness and warmth-like a father embraces.

• Top Notes: Bergamot
• Middle Notes: Tuscan leather, galbanum
• Base Notes: Patchouli, black amber

A comeback of the hippies? Maybe not. But that of patchouli , definetely!

This gourmand note saturated with tonka bean is undeniably reminiscent of the impulse of freedom of a time when people dared to embrace what made them unique.

• Top Notes: Tonka bean Absolute
• Middle Notes: Indonesian Patchouli, Virginia cedar wood, Australian sandalwood
• Base Notes: Tolu balm of Peru, Cade wood from Morocco

“L’Iris” is the first Eau de Parfum created by Officina Profumo-Farmaceutica di Santa Maria Novella after more than 800 years of activity. At the base of the olfactory construction lies the iris butter (“concreta d’iris”) extracted from the flower’s rhizomes: extremely precious, they need 6 years of maturation.

The most elegant raw material among poudré ingredients, it is combined with bright top notes such as neroli, timur pepper and galbanum, and proceeds in a flowery heart made by geranium, jasmine sambach and magnolia champaca. Finally, it arrives at the base, where a classic florentine origin iris unveils Florence itself through a balanced olfactory discovery.

Envisioned by the creative nose Gian Luca Perris, L’Iris reinterprets the history of Florence, celebrating its many and multifaceted connections with the flower that stands as its symbol still today. But also by recalling the legend of the goddess Iris, messenger of the Olympus, and a flower that was already known by the Egyptian, Greek and Latin civilizations. The transparent glass bottle houses a velvety label with a Maison's historic logo, and a golden and engraved zamac alloy cap that reflects its shapes. Available in spray version of 50 ml and 100 ml.

Top: Galbanum, Timur pepper, neroli

Middle: Geranium, magnolia champaca, jasmine Sambac

Base: Iris Fiorentina, musk, ambergris

An intense burning sensation instantly followed by the power of an icy blast together with a cloud of wood, earth and minerality. A volcanic eruption in all its magnificence, yet unable to disturb your unruffled dandy phlegm..

Beguiling Chic.

• Top Notes: Indian black pepper essence and pink pepper extract, French carvi
• Middle Notes: Egyptian violet leaf, Madagascar ginger, Ceylon cinnamon
• Base Notes: Indian Amyris Essence Haitian Vetiver Essence

A hedge of dark and venomous roses protected by thousands of wild thorns which, like a charm, allows the innocent hand that grasps one to reveal its fresh, luminous, and alluring glow.

 A beautifully aromatic Rose.

• Top Notes: Italian bergamot, Florida grapefruit, Mexican yellow tangerine
• Middle Notes: Rose Bulgare alcoolat, Egyptian geranium essence 
• Base Notes: Indian pink pepper, Indian cardamom

A wooden cabin in the middle of a vast clearing, friends, an acoustic guitar. The scent of the carpentry meets the vibrating chords of the Ibanez and the gin and tonic that cools the body but makes tempers flare.

A modern dry wildness with cedar notes. 

• Top Notes: Asian black pepper
• Middle Notes: Virginia cedar wood, ambroxan
• Base Notes: Indian papyrus wood, Haitian vetiver, Malaysian gurjum balm

The candor of an Infanta at the court of Spain or the delight of a white flower that turns heads... Both, intertwined to create a regressive, virginal fragrance, yet one that

A scent of innocence and sensuality.

• Top Notes: Mandora essence of Cyprus, Italian bergamot, orange bigarade from Spain, sweet orange from Spain
• Middle Notes: Petitgrain from Paraguay, Tunisian neroli essence
• Base Notes: Madagascar ginger, orange blossom Absolute of Tunisia

A torrid desert of wild beauty, an impressive tide of deliriously shaped giant cacti, a fantastic rodeo…

From the bottle escape dizzying scents: the intoxicating fragrance of strawflowers from the maquis and sun-heated dunes, the aromatic and slightly animal notes of thyme; scents of red earth scorched with the heat of birch mingle with the delicious smell of sweet amber exhaled by the resin from the cistus labdanum, a shrub from Mediterranean countries.

Notes: Strawflower (immortelle), thyme, birch, amber , labdanum

Through a well-balanced “woods symphony”, Opus V evokes how deceptive and transformative knowledge can be. Floral and waxy whiffs of orris Absolute, buttery, and metallic notes of orris concrete pushed by dry woods and heady fumes of rum paint a binary world of black and white numbers, glass shards and data humming behind metal desks while the raw animality of oud and civet and the faint aroma of wilting rose and jasmine evoke the scent of humans, living together with machines.

Dry and mineral while carnal and soothing, Opus V is a modern tale of societies fragmented by the way knowledge travels in the cyberspace.

Top Notes: Orris Absolute, rum

Middle Notes: Orris Concrete, jasmine, rose

Base Notes: Oud, civet, dry woods

A protruding depth of patchouli and smoky cypriol confuses the senses. Instead of a top note, a wide variety of woods appear, foreboding a deep evolution. An exquisitely rich oud Assam dances in unison with a leathery Madagascar vanilla, while ambrarome, birch, castoreum and guaiac wood leave dark sillage imprints on the skin, blending in an endless finale.

Inspired by the notions of confusion, passion and destruction expressed in Stendhal’s “The Red and The Black”, Silver Oud is a manifestation of the tension between idealism and realism, the contradiction between thinking and feeling, and the power of mimetic desire.  

Top Notes: Patchouli, cypriol, Virginia cedar

Middle Notes: Oud Assam, vanilla Madagascar

Base Notes: Ambrarome, birch, guaiac wood, castoreum

A joyous and crimson Damascus rose set in a frankincense hyper-absolute mount, waves of vanilla clashing against bitter splinters of myrrh, nocturnal drops of black ink crashing against citrusy streaks of elemi, Opus XII is a study of both rose and incense, pushing them each to unexplored territories and pulling out an uncompromisingly novel take on an otherwise classic accord.

Inspired by the mystery behind Orson Welles' Rosebud, Opus XII is an ambery and pointilliste constellation of gleaming moments coming back and forth from the dregs of memory, compelling us to believe that despite our knowledge of the present, only childhood memories are real.

Top Notes: Elemi, frankincense hyperabsolute, black ink accord

Middle Notes: Damascus rose, frankincense resinoid, suederal

Base Notes: Myrrh, vanilla, cedarwood, sandalwood

Built on a wild swirl of spices and rare resins, Opus VII is a reflection on how seductive knowledge is. Through an intensely green opening of sticky galbanum and blindingly fresh cardamom and nutmeg blooms a "reckless leather".

Nutty fenugreek, insanely smoky beams of cypriol and the animalic call of costus and Ambergris support the unabashed leather centerpiece while a lather of fluttery muscone, sandalwood and frankincense creates a harmonious and carnal ending.

By eliciting a sense of peace after a vigorously green opening, Opus VII becomes a lesson on sapiosexuality and subtly teaches how seduction of the mind is more powerful than that of the eyes.

Top Notes: Galbanum, pink pepper, cardamom, nutmeg, fenugreek

Middle Notes: Agarwood smoke, patchouli, ambrox, leather, ambergris

Base Notes: Costus root, muscone, sandalwood, olibanum, cypriol

Eau Coeur is an intense encounter with blooming splendor. The magnificent, alluring and graceful moment, simultaneously tender yet evocative in its delicateness. Eau Coeur is a radiant fragrance, straight from the heart, desiring love.

The composition opens with an intriguing alliance of mysterious magnolia oil, a woody peach note of osmanthus absolue with its feral leather notes and an inflection of invigorating pink pepper.

The heart note exudes a hint of rose absolue Morocco emboldened with Virginia   cedar wood and smoky oak wood.  Vanilla and sensual tonka bean linger in the base. Tender musk invokes passion while an overindulgence of ambrox lends the perfume its harmonious union and longevity.

-Top Notes: Magnolia oil, osmanthus Absolue, pink pepper

-Middle Notes: Rose Maroc Absolue, cedar wood, oak wood

-Base Notes: Tonka bean Absolue, musk, ambrox

 Launching September 15th, 2022

• Top Notes: Juniper, basil, cardamone, bergamot
• Middle Notes: Blackcurrant bud, driftwood
  
• Base Notes: Vetiver, yerba maté, cedarwood, ambergris, sandalwood

SPICY WOOD I CRUSHED LEAVES I TROPICAL FLOWERS

SMELLS LIKE: A Brazilian rain forest.

Costa Brazil's roll-on fragrance oil is made with Pataua Oil, which has been extracted from deep purple-colored berries from Seje palms in the Amazon.

Rich in oleic acid, vitamin E, A and amino acid protein, this fast-absorbing oil has skin firming properties and leaves behind a soft, powdery feel.

Active Ingredients

Urucum Oil is rich in vitamin E and carotenoids, which are helpful in fighting environmental stressors, and helps to make skin look firmer while reducing the appearance of fine lines and dark spots.
Copaiba Oil helps to soothe irritation, reduce puffiness and soften the appearance of redness.
Andiroba Oil is high in vitamin E, Omega 6 and 9 Fatty Acids and moisturizing activity, helping to condition skin and improve cell turnover and circulation.
Squalane derived from Brazilian sugarcane, helps keep skin hydrated and allows for deeper absorption of active ingredients.
Tea Tree Oil in small doses, has been shown to have antimicrobial properties, prevent inflammation and help reduce blemishes.
Sweet Almond Oil is rich in vitamin E, Omega-3 Fatty Acids, and helps replenish skin’s moisture barrier.
Sunflower Oil is rich in vitamin E and Fatty Linoleic Acids, making it great at maintaining hydration and replenishing the moisture barrier as well as calming irritated skin.

All Ingredients

GLYCERIN*, PRUNUS AMYGDALUS DULCIS (SWEET ALMOND) OIL, CAPRYLIC/CAPRIC TRIGLYCERIDE*, AQUA [WATER], SQUALANE, SUCROSE LAURATE*, CARAPA GUAIANENSIS SEED OIL*, SUCROSE STEARATE*, BIXA ORELLANA SEED OIL, COPAIFERA OFFICINALIS (BALSAM COPAIBA) RESIN, MELALEUCA ALTERNIFOLIA (TEATREE) LEAF OIL, TOCOPHEROL*, HELIANTHUS ANNUUS (SUNFLOWER) SEED OIL, CITRUS AURANTIUM DULCIS (ORANGE) PEEL OIL, GLYCINE SOJA (SOYBEAN) OIL, SUCROSE PALMITATE

This unisex fragrance is inspired by Breu, a natural resin that grows in the Amazon and is revered for benefits: peace of mind, focus, balance. A blend of fresh earth, spicy wood, flowers and crushed leaves—and ingredients that are known to encompass stress-reducing phytoncides—it reminds one of waking up in the jungle at dawn.

AROMA’s packaging is made from sustainably-sourced white ash in a red oak finish. A simple and discrete sliding mechanism at the base of the custom-designed box makes it easy to refill.

30ML / 1FL OZ.

TOP NOTES

• White Jungle Flora I Brazil Orange Oil I Pink Pepper I Grapefruit Zest

HEART NOTES

• Geranium Bourbon I Nutmeg Oil I Clearwood I Myrrh

BASE NOTES

• Cedarwood Atlas I Vetiver I Plant-based Musks I Amber Accord I Cypriol I Patchouli

SPICY WOOD I CRUSHED LEAVES I TROPICAL FLOWERS

SMELLS LIKE: A Brazilian forest.

This unisex fragrance is inspired by Breu, a natural resin that grows in the Amazon and is revered for benefits: peace of mind, focus, balance. A blend of fresh earth, spicy wood, flowers and crushed leaves—and ingredients that are known to encompass stress-reducing phytoncides—it reminds one of waking up in the jungle at dawn.

AROMA’s packaging is made from sustainably-sourced white ash in a red oak finish. A simple and discrete sliding mechanism at the base of the custom-designed box makes it easy to refill.

TOP NOTES

• White Jungle Flora I Brazil Orange Oil I Pink Pepper I Grapefruit Zest

HEART NOTES

• Geranium Bourbon I Nutmeg Oil I Clearwood I Myrrh

BASE NOTES

• Cedarwood Atlas I Vetiver I Plant-based Musks I Amber Accord I Cypriol I Patchouli

Fresh jungle on the side of a volcano, ENCELADE is a powerful and captivating perfume.

Shadow-light relationship within a perfume which plays its paradoxes with delight.

Main accord of rhubarb, cedar and vetiver express the smell of Earth, sap, lush nature. Green and woody notes which comes to mingle with the crash of smoked and animal leather.

Milky sandalwood and tonka bean add sensuality and addiction to the skin.

Pure seduction of a perfume conveying a wild magnetism.

wood dew | Modern Eclectics
forest shower drops

Naked in autumn.
Been inside for too long.
Tree tops and bare bark.
Nymph vibes.
Grounding energy, but just for a minute.

Stepping into the forest after the rain. The wood is wet, but the air has dried. There is hope and there is slumber, both on the horizon. There’s still time to touch the earth.

Modern Eclectics’ wood dew captures a moment in time when the loud blooms are long gone. What’s left is not as colorful, yet it still pulses with life. A clearing of soft, fragrant Australian sandalwood and palo santo form this forest. A crisp air comes from Asian pear. Peach nectar, Turkish rose, and white musk allow this woody floral a
soft landing that welcomes those who wish to ground.

Notes: Australian sandalwood, palo santo, white musks, Asian pear, peony, peach nectar, matcha tea, dewy violet, Turkish rose.

neo rose | Modern Eclectics
velvet petal pressure

Burgundy in a mirror.
Chilled suede.
Dark academia beauty.
What goes around comes around.
A rose is not a rose.

A history that does not repeat but transforms itself. A rose pressed between the sheets of a suede-bound book. When finally discovered, it has not been preserved in its cut state. Rather, it emerges as something entirely new.

Modern Eclectics’ neo rose is an ethereal floral being that exists for the modern age. A tactile geometry of Turkish rose is woven with black tea, patchouli and equally heady jasmine and freesia for a revelatory rose with just a hint of thorn. This floral woody scent is like catching a peek at a darkened garden, lit only for those who know just where to look.

Notes: Turkish rose, black tea, jasmine, patchouli, freesia, pink pepper, bergamot, white wood

palmetto | Modern Eclectics
jungle plant soul

Feathered fronds.
Heated abundance.
A vertical landscape.
The breeze in your hair.
Moving on and up.

A new point of view. Sky-high lethargic palms swung by hot winds. A hand slicing through tall grass. The calm that comes by looking down from above.

Modern Eclectics’ palmetto captures the soul of a palm. It is less of an ideal and more of a complete picture: lush leaves, slender trunk, earthly roots; each element emitting its own aroma tinged with fruits and flowers and earth. Dry galbanum and crisp amber are balanced by fig cream, spicy angelica seeds and sichuan pepper. This is a green spicy scent with the power to create its own atmosphere.

Notes: Galbanum, lemon, angelica seeds, fig cream, jasmine petals, crisp amber, sichuan pepper, musk nectar

pink ivory | Modern Eclectics

raw beach rococo

Cotton candy in the fridge. Aquarelle aesthetic.
Glitter pressed into glass.
The first step on blush sand.
Marie Antoinette in a micro mini.

A dream state. An evolved realm of sparkling calm and kinetic kindness. A moment to remember that life really is sweet. Not saccharine, but beautiful.

Modern Eclectics’ pink ivory is a creamy froth of clean iris and sugared carrot. An undercurrent of saltiness is a like a secret, a slightly naughty counter to the initial rolling wave of confection. Beachy tones from amber and cashmere are welcome ground on which to anchor, a soft landing for this floral musky perfume.

Notes: Orris, carrot seed, pink sugar, violet, bergamot, white amber, cashmere

minted | Modern Eclectics
fresh, laundered herb

Moroccan mint tea on ice.
Guilt-free opulence.
Pale green clouds of chalk.
The clean virtual slate.
A crypto curious mind and a full wallet.

The art of the possible. An optimistic outlook. Freshly laundered herb with a touch of cream. Good taste. No acquisition required.

Modern Eclectics’ minted is the fragrance equivalent of a deep breath. Clean jasmine petals and papyrus dust a cup of Moroccan mint tea.

A faint cloud of powder makes the mint accord less
bracing but not soft. Instead, it is expansive and diffuse, carrying with it the subtle touches of violet and lemongrass. This aromatic woody scent lands on skin as a light veil that remains fresh even as the hours tick on.

Notes: Moroccan mint, mate tea, jasmine petals, papyrus, Atlas cedarwood, violet, lemongrass, bergamot, brown sugar

Six transgressive fragrances.

Cigarettes. Weed. Sex. Chocolate. Caffeine. Alcohol.

Addictions turned into perfume. Undiluted and addictive to be consumed without moderation. Each is an escape hatch from the conventional.

The discovery kit, for the curious and intrigued.

2ml samples of  6 Akro perfumes: Awake, Dark, Haze, Smoke, Night and Malt.

Night brings back the moment of desire and its musky flavour. When the night belongs to those who lust and love.

A drink in the flat. A taxi. A warehouse party, somewhere in the depths of Hackney Wick, the Olympic Stadium guiding your way. You pay, you drink, you dance. Your eyes meet another pair across the dancefloor, in a nanosecond between strobe flashes. You follow them to the bar, you say something stupid. You buy them a drink. You move to the smoking area, and then back to the dancefloor. You talk. You dance. You touch. You kiss. You book another taxi. You spend the night in bed, and the day in the pub. You make plans to see each other again, but never do.

Night​ is the smell of those long-lost, one-night dalliances that stay with you long after they probably should.

Top Note: Bulgarian rose
Middle Note: Cumin, saffron
Base Note: Agaroud

Smoke is inspired by the pleasure of the first drag of a cigarette, which is consumed as quickly as it is born.

Smoke: it's a scent that splits us down the middle, the ultimate acquired taste. It might not be for everyone - but for those who are pulled in by it’s taboo aroma, it’s the abiding scent of the best times of our lives; first kisses, last dances, 5am enlightenments, after parties and mornings after. It’s the scent you’re not supposed to like, but the one you can’t forget.

Top Note: Balkans tobacco leaves
Middle Note: Cade, nicotine
Base Note: Benjoin, tonka bean

Malt is the perfect synthesis of a delicate liquor and a drunkenness that leaves its trace on the skin.

A really good whisky is a sensory experience; it's the bite on your tongue, the warmth in your cheeks, the smoky aroma that releases when it falls over ice. It’s a scent we first became enamored with when working the pubs and bars of Ladbroke Grove, a scent that will forever be associated with that dangerous ‘tipping point’ in a night; that witching hour and a bit before closing time when the beers become shots, relaxation becomes hedonism and night edges closer to morning. We just knew we had to bottle it for you.

Top Note: Whiskey
Middle Note: Rum, leather, seaweed
Base Note: Patchouli

For those who’ve fallen under the spell of the ancient art of tattoos, it’s much more than a bit of body decoration; it’s a reminder of a time, a place - a fleeting moment that becomes a permanent memento. In many ways, a good fragrance works similarly - something you carry on your skin, to remind you of who you were at a moment in time.

The fascination by the parallels between tattoos and perfumery, is the inspiration of Akro's new scent, ink. Cold, alluring, with notes of black ink, tar, vetiver and jasmine - ink is a scent that will transport you back to the day of your first tattoo, whenever you want.

Top Note: Vetiver
Middle Note: Black ink, jasmine
Base Note: Birch