A date accord is true-to-life with jammy treacle fruitiness. It's a perfect partner to rich vanilla and ambers.

Elemi resin is almost like a lemon scented amber. It is a tree sap found in the Phillipines with a lemon and black pepper aroma.

Real eucalyptus in the world is profoundly green with a deep floral spice. The oil enlivens us but must be dosed accordingly and rounded or else can make something smell like the spa.

Also called fougere, fern is a classic accord of oakmoss-hay-lavender absolute that smells liek more than the sum of it's parts. It is the de facto old man accord that can be modified endlessly.

Fig is crowd pleaser. It’s an accord made of molecules that smell of milky coconuts and tomato leaves respectively. Fig has become something of its own genre often blended with green notes, flowers, and wood.

Fig is crowd pleaser. It’s an accord made of molecules that smell of milky coconuts and tomato leaves respectively. Fig has become something of its own genre often blended with green notes, flowers, and wood.

Another flower that doesn’t give up its oil (except via old fashioned enfleurage methods that we no longer use much). I use a gardenia base I built over the course of 2 weeks—copying a blooming plant I owned in 2017 (it died in 2019). It is creamy, tropical, & multi-faceted. It recalls tropics but also Fred Astaire’s elegant lapel.

Ginger lily oil is a a spicy, balmy floral absolute with dark depth. It is humid, dirty and smells almost underground.

Grassy molecules provide the perfumer with realistic greens that can help speak of landscapes or boost flowers, chypres, and anything that wants to say “green”.

Grassy molecules provide the perfumer with realistic greens that can help speak of landscapes or boost flowers, chypres, and anything that wants to say “green”.

A fresh, bracing combination of coriander, cardamom, and green pepper that puts a pep in all steps taken after spraying Grey Blazer. Perfect when paired with bright citrus.

A complex sweet fruity note with floral and green shades. It smells tropical, youthful, and like a good time!

Prime countryside with coumarin rich grass fields. New mown hay, sweet grass in the sun. It is like vanilla but greener and grassier.

An accord of wild flowers found all over Ireland - yellow iris, sea pinks, thistle, and geranium. It provides a floral contrast to the woods, spices, and wool of Grey Blazer.

A dirty straw-like aroma over cypress. Recalls conifer forests and choice Japanese baths.

One of the most beautiful aromas on the planet. Honeysuckle is a complex accord to build - it contains shades of lemon, peach, jasmine, rose, coconut, and more.

Everyone’s favorite aromachemical. Pour over anything to give radiance and presence. It softens, fills, and gives a “skin” effect. Warm and ambery like patchouli with all trace of its aromatic profile sucked out. Left with the ghost of otherworldly radiance. As it ages it can take on a useful coffee note.

The ultimate perfume material. Jasmine can blend and elevate anything it touches. Jasmine grandiflorum is pure class—green, sugar, overripe, beyond rich. Truly kaleidoscopic. Jasmine sambac is more vegetal, aquatic, and indolic.

Juniper berries provide antique wood notes, and a jammy shade of pine. They are fresh, bracing, and bring our minds out into the country, One of the oldest species around!

Ubiquitous clean flowery herb famous in soaps and perfumes. There are many varieties—some floral, others green and bitter like rosemary. Solvent extraction brings out a deep grassy hay and vegetal absolute.

Animalic and timeless. These days we use synthetic vegan reconstructions. Leather can be versatile as it ranges from clean butterscotch, to horses, to stinky animalics.

Animalic and timeless. These days we use synthetic vegan reconstructions. Leather can be versatile as it ranges from clean butterscotch, to horses, to stinky animalics.

Lily is a construct—the flower does not give its oil through extraction. When realistic, lily is a frosty complex flower that is spicy and animalic.

Lime oil provides zest and freshness with the added bonus of giving us a green top note. Limes get along with flowers, chypres, and earthy fragrances. Lime flowers smell of green orange blossom and are a nice accord in colognes.

Green, narcotic tree flower with a honeyed sweetness that blooms all over NYC. One of our perfumer David's favorite flowers - this is an accord made of a tree that lives on Jefferson Street in Bedstuy, Brooklyn!

The lotus flower climbs from ponds and lives just above the water. An absolute from its flowers keeps that DNA with it's dirty, Earthy rich floral heart. It is a very rare, mysterious note with a fineness that rivals tuberose absolute.

Unmistakable fruit with bright, sulphuric and pink rosy floral notes. It is tart, sweet, uplifting and refreshing.

Magnolia doesn’t give up its oil for use in perfume and must be reconstructed. Magnolia is narcotic. In spring it displays a bouquet of husky white flower with lemon overtones. Smells very “mom” to me and like fancy skin cream.

Very fine jungle and rainforest wood with a gorgeously complex red, almost spicey woody aroma. It is bold and dark.

Sweet perfumey citrus that is deeper than orange. Wonderful with flowers, ambers, patchouli, woods.

A powerful oil that can help boost many famous accords in perfume. Spearmint is especially useful in fern and colognes. Blends well with many oils in small doses.

Oakmoss, treemoss, and mossy synthetics are bold, green, and dry. Often used in chypre and fern perfumes but great in many other genres. Oakmoss absolute is especially good for armchair journeys to enchanted forests.

Musk is probably the most misunderstood concept. There are many musks—decedents of research into what made real deer musk smell so attractive. Think of musk as a white canvas on which to paint. They help fix, round, and elevate a perfume but stay in the background; more of a feeling than an aroma. Musks can be clean, dirty, creamy, fruity, fine, cheap, sweet, and many other silly adjectives to describe the indescribable.

Musk is probably the most misunderstood concept. There are many musks—decedents of research into what made real deer musk smell so attractive. Think of musk as a white canvas on which to paint. They help fix, round, and elevate a perfume but stay in the background; more of a feeling than an aroma. Musks can be clean, dirty, creamy, fruity, fine, cheap, sweet, and many other silly adjectives to describe the indescribable.

Distilled essence of orange blossoms, neroli is green, orange, and extremely dewy. One of the most expensive topnotes and an impoortant note in the OG cologne.

Dry, quiet woody aroma of tree, lumber, and whisky barrels.

Salty, marine ozonic materials that convey the scent experienced at the edge of the sea.