Fragrance lines that are bring out the beauty of French Vintage with Eastern inspirations while incorporating modern era elements in it. My brand, Ashenfume, is set to deliver high quality perfumes with REAL botanical ingredients that is lacking nowadays in mainstream fragrances.

I absolutely love incoporating myths into my works as it gives it a theme and more purpose. My hope is to instill that part of the imagination into the process so that everyone can feel it on their own terms.

Ingredient materials & Sourcing.

Deer Musk

Musk is one of the most fabled materials, especially deer musk, as it seen as a taboo subject of sorts and is becoming increasingly rarer due to deer populations not being properly regulating their governing agencies. Deer musk is getting more fraudulent as tricksters have found a way to mimick deer musk by taking the expended grains and Sack. The grians are typically soaked in a combination of various materials that give the effect of deer musk. It’s sad how the industry plunged in integrity. Fortunately, I still have a contact that I have known in good faith to provide REAL Deer pods. These deer pods are musky and have this beautiful smell of cured leather, musk, hints of bitter chocolate, and warm animalic smell.

Civet paste

This incredibly precious material is produced by the Civet Cat’s perineal gland which produces a paste it uses to mark its territory. This paste is collected and processed into a perfume absolute or tincture.Civet paste sweetens with age, developing unique, almost floral notes and a softness that counterbalances its animal heart. This material is aquired from Ethiopian farmers and has been used for nearly over 1000+ years in fragrance. The producer is one of the best around and pays visits to the Civet farm in Ethiopia to survey and ensure the well being of the farmers and the animals to the best of their ability. In their words “I now work directly with this farmer, and step by step, we are introducing more humane and animal-centric methods to this tradition.  Change will NOT happen overnight. But I believe we are on the right path.This paste is of the highest quality.”

This civet paste is 100% compliant with CITES

Sandalwood

We truly live in a world of Fast food Sandalwood right now. I only use Aged sandalwood for my blends where the creamy rich buttery lactonic affairs are truley at their peak. You have no idea how happy I was when a producer reached out to me to sell a distillation of Santalum Album sandalwood logs that were nearly 60+ years of age and oil had already aged for nearly 5 years.