Cross into the hall of myths
One perfumer and one writer, the same hands. Every material in these bottles is rare, costly, and named plainly on the label.
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
- Horse musk
- Red champaca
- Costus root
From $105
Jungle Potion
Extrait de parfum
A luminous elixir of humidity, bloom, and sacred green light.
- Gardenia absolute
- Tuberose
- Civet
- Oakmoss
From $96
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 $105
Discovery Collection, Volume I
Start with three
Three vials of extrait at 2 mL each, drawn from the same batches that fill the full bottles. Dream Eater, Red Hare, and Lady of the Lake, in a tray and sleeve box built for the set.
$45
The same price as three single vials. The box comes with it.
Take the set★★★★★
“This fragrance is one of the greatest fragrances I’ve smelled in my life.”
★★★★★
“Half goddess half cat, a promise of warmth, of sensual grace and quiet prayer.”