Cross into the hall of myths
Extrait de parfum built on oud, rare naturals, and real animalics.One perfumer and one writer, the same hands. Every material in these bottles is rare, costly, and named plainly on the label.
Preorder now open
Dream Eater
She comes to the edge of the bed in the small hours and eats the dream that frightened you.
The baku of Japanese legend, told in this house as a horned woman robed in fleece. Lavender for the hour you drift off. Orris in three forms, powdery and violet. Wool absolute, warm as the blanket pulled to your chin, with civet breathing close beneath it. Plush, purple, and made to be worn to bed.
- Poured at
- 33%
- Ships
- October 5
- Preorder
$108$99 15 mL
- Orris, three forms
- Lavender absolute
- Wool absolute
- Mimosa
- Civet
The $99 preorder price holds for every 15 mL ordered before the bottles ship. Each box arrives with a vial of another house fragrance, and you can tell me which one you want. Bottles are filled, capped, and rested by hand, then sent out in the order they were placed.
Every material, named and accounted for
Seventy five raw materials sit in the house ledger, each one photographed and sourced. These four are the most precious things I buy.
Meghalayan oud
Wild Aquilaria from the Khasi hills. The resin forms only where the tree has been wounded, which is why so little of it exists. In Red Hare.
Fifty year Santalum album
Indonesian heartwood, aged half a century before it ever met a still. Time is the only thing that makes it smell this way. In Bastet.
Orris butter
Iris rhizomes dug, dried, and left to rest for years before distillation. The scent does not exist in the fresh root. Only time makes it. In Bastet.
Castoreum
Taken from beaver already trapped, never from an animal killed for scent. Dried, aged, and tinctured slowly. Leather and birch tar without a drop of either. In Badlands.
Perfume Incarnate.
Ashenfume began as a rebellion against scents that were overhyped, overmarketed, and then locked away by collectors who never let anyone smell them. Fragrance should be a shared passion. So I build each one as a legend you can wear, poured from the finest materials I can find.
Choose the legend that’s yours
Seven figures, seven bottles. These three are the ones to meet first.
Red Hare
Extrait de parfum
A mythic warhorse caught in smoke, spice, and battle heat. The charge that never fades.
- Meghalayan oud
- Deer musk accord
- Red champaca
- Costus root
From $108 for 15 mL
Jungle Potion
Extrait de parfum
A luminous elixir of humidity, bloom, and sacred green light.
- Gardenia absolute
- Tuberose
- Civet absolute
- Oakmoss
From $87 for 15 mL
Founding batch. First thirty bottles.
Lady of the Lake
Extrait de parfum
The blade the Lady offers to the worthy alone. Cold water, cedar, and green stillness beneath the surface.
- Ambergris accord
- Cold water
- Cedar
- Juniper
From $107 for 15 mL
It arrives in a case I burn myself
Every 15 mL and 30 mL ships in a hinged hardwood case with a velvet bed cut to the bottle. The lid carries the figure the perfume is bound to, engraved one at a time on the laser in my own shop.
- Hardwood case, hinged lid, velvet interior
- Lid engraved with the figure from the myth
- Filled, sealed, and packed by hand, one bottle at a time
What they said after wearing it
Every review below is left by a verified buyer and published unedited.
★★★★★
“When I spray this, it makes me feel like I’m in a forest surrounded by old trees and flowers with a fire burning.”
★★★★★
“Half goddess half cat, a promise of warmth, of sensual grace and quiet power.”
★★★★★
“The show begins with it slowly drying down to a beautiful oud. This is oud at its finest, resinous and seamless.”
★★★★★
“Beautifully fresh and dark yet ethereal with presence.”
Discovery Collection, Volume I
Three legends, one book
Three vials of extrait at 2 mL each, poured from the same batches that fill the flacons. Dream Eater, Red Hare, and Lady of the Lake, set into a gold foiled book built to hold them. Wear each for a few days and learn which myth belongs to you.
$45
The forty five returns to you as credit toward any 30 mL or 50 mL flacon.
Take the set