NOIR ÉLIXIR

Extrait de Parfum — MMXXV

Noir Élixir Maison de Parfum

Extrait de Parfum — 100 ml

Noir Élixir

A study in shadow. Oud, rose and saffron, aged in silence for eleven months.

Discover the House The Composition
The NOIR ÉLIXIR flacon, black glass with a gilded collar, lit from behind.

I — Manifesto

Perfume is not worn.
It is remembered.

We began in a cellar beneath Grasse with a single question: what does darkness smell like when it is beautiful?

Eleven months of maceration. Six revisions of a single accord. No filler, no haste, no compromise. Every flacon of NOIR ÉLIXIR leaves our atelier numbered by hand, because a fragrance made at this concentration cannot be made at volume.

What remains is a scent that behaves less like an accessory and more like a memory — quiet on arrival, impossible to forget.

Concentration
32%
Maceration
11mo
Flacons per batch
300

II — The Composition

Four Ingredients.
Nothing to Hide Behind.

  • Splintered oud heartwood releasing a thread of smoke.

    01

    Oud

    Assam, India — 40 years aged

    The spine of the composition. Resinous, animalic, faintly sweet — the note that decides how long you are remembered.

  • A deep crimson Damascena rose beaded with water.

    02

    Damascena Rose

    Isparta, Türkiye — dawn harvest

    Four thousand petals for a single gram of absolute. Picked before sunrise, when the oil has not yet learned to leave.

  • Crimson saffron threads spilling from a dark ceramic bowl.

    03

    Saffron

    Khorasan, Iran — hand sorted

    Leather and honey held in a single thread. It gives the opening its heat and its slight, deliberate bitterness.

  • A polished chunk of fossil amber lit from within.

    04

    Amber

    Baltic coast — fossil resin

    The close. Warm, powdered, unhurried — the reason the scent is still on the collar of your coat a week later.

“The finest perfume in the world is the one nobody can describe to you. You have to be in the room.”

Élise Marchand — Master Perfumer, Maison Noir Élixir

III — The Collection

Three Expressions
of the Same Shadow

The atelier bench in a stone cellar, apothecary bottles lit by a single shaft of light.

IV — The Atelier

Made Slowly,
On Purpose

Nine hands. One cellar. No machine has ever touched the maceration.

  1. Sourcing

    We buy from four families we have known for a decade, at the price they name.

  2. Maceration

    Eleven months in unlit oak. The composition is turned by hand every ninth day.

  3. Filtration

    Cold, unhurried, and only once — clarity should never cost character.

  4. Numbering

    Each flacon is engraved with its batch and its place within it.

V — Invitation

Three Hundred Flacons.
Then Silence.

Batch No. 12 opens in October. Members of the list are written to first.