Six houses · One atelier
The six houses
Aurenza is organised into six olfactive houses. Each begins with a single raw material and a decision about how dark it should be worn. Read in order, they run from the resinous to the green.
Twenty-four compositions · Grasse, France
House I · Oud · Leather · Black Plum
Noir Absolu
The darkest house on the bench. Noir Absolu is built on smoked oud and black plum, laid over leather and labdanum, and macerated longer than anything else in the collection. It is not a fragrance for daylight; it is the one you reach for once the evening has already begun.
- NOIR ABSOLUBlack plum · Bulgarian rose · smoked oud · leather
- OUD CENDRÉBirch tar · smoked oud · guaiac wood · black pepper
- CUIR DE MINUITSuede · iris root · Haitian vetiver · tobacco leaf
- RÉSINE NOIRELabdanum · myrrh · benzoin · tonka bean
House II · Amber · Honey · Sandalwood
Aurum
Aurum is the warm end of the collection: golden amber, acacia honey and vanilla absolute over Mysore sandalwood. It is the house people arrive at first and return to most, and the one we send out as a gift more often than any other.
- AURUM DORÉAmber accord · acacia honey · tonka bean · vanilla absolute
- AMBRE SOLAIREGolden amber · bourbon vanilla · sandalwood · benzoin
- MIEL SAUVAGEWild honey · immortelle · beeswax · white tobacco
- SANTAL D'ORMysore sandalwood · saffron · cashmeran · violet leaf
House III · Incense · Ash · Vetiver
Cendres
Cendres takes cold smoke as its subject: frankincense, mineral ash and smoked vetiver, held together with Atlas cedar and elemi. Restrained, faintly austere, it is the quietest of the six and the one that rewards patience the most.
- CENDRES FROIDESCold incense · mineral ash · Atlas cedar · elemi
- ENCENS NOIROmani frankincense · pink pepper · myrrh · cade oil
- VÉTIVER FUMÉSmoked vetiver · grapefruit peel · cypress · dry earth
- PAPIER BRÛLÉPapyrus · guaiac wood · iris · burnt sugar
House IV · White Musk · Neroli · Sea Salt
Éclat Blanc
The lightest house: white musk, Tunisian neroli and Williams pear, with a thread of sea salt running through it. Éclat Blanc is built to sit close and stay clean rather than to announce itself, which is precisely why people keep it.
- ÉCLAT BLANCWhite musk · neroli · Williams pear · blonde woods
- FLEUR DE SELSea salt · sambac jasmine · ambrette seed · driftwood
- NÉROLI PURTunisian neroli · Calabrian bergamot · orange blossom · petitgrain
- LYS CÉLESTEMadonna lily · white tea · silk musk · green almond
House V · Fig Leaf · Green Mandarin · Oakmoss
Verger
Verger is the orchard house: fig leaf and coconut milk, green mandarin, basil and damp oakmoss. It reads green and slightly bitter, and it behaves best in heat — worn in the afternoon, not at a table.
- FIGUIER VERTFig leaf · galbanum · coconut milk · cedar
- HERBE HAUTEGreen mandarin · basil · vetiver · tomato leaf
- MOUSSE DE CHÊNEOakmoss · bracken fern · petitgrain · wet stone
- POIRE SAUVAGEWild pear · ivy leaf · cedar · white amber
House VI · Saffron · Rose · Cardamom
Nuit d'Épices
Nuit d’Épices is the spiced house, opening on Kashmiri saffron and Taif rose before settling into Cambodian oud and ambergris. It is the boldest of the six and the one most often worn as a signature.
- SAFRAN NUITKashmiri saffron · Taif rose · Cambodian oud · ambergris
- POIVRE NOIRBlack pepper · cinnamon bark · amber · cistus
- CARDAMOME ROSEGreen cardamom · Turkish rose · white musk · cedarwood
- GINGEMBRE FAUVEFresh ginger · nutmeg · tobacco leaf · vanilla
Between the houses
The bench they share
Every composition, whatever house it belongs to, is macerated ninety days and bottled by hand in Grasse.
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