Custom fragrance development

Where will
people smell it?

The same idea becomes a different fragrance in a bottle, a candle or a hotel lobby. Start with the one you're making.

An unlabelled perfume bottle with amber liquid and a deep red cap on a lacquered surface
A study in fine fragrance
Where will it be experienced?Choose an application

The format
changes everything.

Pick where the fragrance will live. Each one comes with the questions we'll ask you first.

The first thing a guest notices.

For a hotel, shop or showroom, describe the room as carefully as the scent. Which areas, how long people stay in them, and whether you want the fragrance noticed or just felt.

Questions for your brief
  • An entrance, a room or a larger environment?
  • How noticeable should the scent be?
  • Is a diffusion system already selected?

Share the setting and any existing scent-delivery arrangement so creative and practical needs can be discussed together.

What takes shape

A scent direction, a note on how strong it should be in each area, and a plan for testing it in the actual diffuser. Installation is quoted separately by a partner.

Find your referencesAn illustrated scent index

You don't need to
know the names.

Ten notes to smell in your head. Open any of them, save the ones you like, and you've told us most of what we need.

Your scent references

Choose the notes you’d like to discuss.

These are scent references, not a formula or ingredient commitment. Natural materials and constructed accords can express similar notes. Your selection helps describe a direction.

Now try putting
them together.

Take the notes you saved into the composition studio, balance them, and pick a bottle.

Before development

One scent,
one use at a time.

A scent that's right on a paper blotter can be wrong in wax or on skin. Each use gets its own development, even when the idea is the same.

If you’re planning a perfume and a candle, include both in the brief. We’ll discuss the scope, evaluation needs and responsibilities for each application.