Decants · Layering sets · Custom blends

A full bottle is a commitment you do not have to make yet.

A bottle is a thousand sprays. At three a day that is eleven months of one decision, usually made on the strength of one wearing. Two milliliters is $5.50, about twenty sprays, poured by hand the day you order.

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What arrives

A glass atomizer, filled the day you order.

Nothing sits pre-poured. An opened decant loses its top notes first, and those are the part you paid for. Two milliliters is about twenty sprays, enough to wear something from opening to base a dozen times before deciding.

A two millilitre decant vial held between finger and thumb

Three vials and a printed card in a kraft mailer

Reading a fragrance

A fragrance keeps changing for about six hours.

The light materials evaporate first and the heavy ones stay behind, so what you smell at ten minutes, at an hour, and at hour six are three different things. A sniff at a counter only ever shows you the first one.

Top

The first ten to thirty minutes

Small, volatile, and gone before you have made up your mind. Almost always citrus or a light spice. It is the part that sells a bottle and the part you will never smell again after the first half hour.

Heart

Thirty minutes to about two hours

The body of the thing, and what most people mean when they say what a fragrance smells like. Florals and spice sit here, held up by whatever is underneath.

Base

Hour two onward, and your coat tomorrow

Heavy, slow, and the part that decides whether you can live with something. Two fragrances that open differently often turn out to have the same floor.

Prices

Same price, whatever it is.

Two milliliters is $5.50 whatever the bottle cost. Price here tracks volume, and nothing else.

2 mL

$5.50

about 20 sprays

$2.75 / mL

5 mL

about 50 sprays

$1.80 / mL

10 mL

$13

about 100 sprays

$1.30 / mL

Shipping $6.50, free over $60. Ground only, US only: fragrance is a flammable liquid and cannot legally fly. How it works.

Layering sets

Three vials, unmixed.

Layering means wearing two at once, which normally means owning both bottles. Three vials are $15, and the card says which one goes down first and how much of the second to use. Layering usually fails because both get sprayed the same amount, and what you end up wearing is neither of them.

$15 3 × 2 mL

Custom blends

When you know, name your own.

Pick two or three off the shelf. They are blended to order, rested seven days so the seams close, and shipped under whatever name you give them. Five milliliters is $9, ten is $13, and you set how much of each goes in. The formula card stays on file, so the second one matches the first.

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