About

My fragrance lines bring out the beauty of French Vintage with Eastern inspirations while incorporating some of the more modern era elements.

My brand, Ashenfume, is set to deliver high quality perfumes with REAL botanical ingredients that is lacking nowadays in mainstream fragrances.

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

Animal Musk is a precious and one of the most fabled materials out there, made even rarer in the modern era of Synthetic musk replacers. I used to use what I thought was deer musk, but due to a market rife with fraud I have decided to no longer sustain that practice. All recent formulations are Deer Musk Accords. Just as good, if not better than real deer musk.

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 shit 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.

Ambergris

The ambergris sourced from a reputable laboratory from England and have extensively vet the materials that come in to be genuine ambergris.

The ambergris I use is primarily black and is featured heavily in Black sea for its metallic, fecal, and tobacco facets. It is a genuinely pungent odor, but nothing obtrusive. It smells like a cold battery, with earth, and some very bitter florals.