Vesper Smoke
€210Birch tar that thaws into warm leather and a thread of dried rose. The one our perfumer wears.
Birch tar
Leather
Dried rose
Add to cart — €210
Noctémbre bottles the moment a room empties and the night turns honest. Smoked oud, black fig, and ambered vanilla, distilled across 11 weeks in our Grasse atelier — released in a numbered run of 900.
Each is a fixed run, numbered and dated on the base. When a number retires, it does not return. Free engraving on every flacon over €200.
Birch tar that thaws into warm leather and a thread of dried rose. The one our perfumer wears.
Labdanum and tonka over a base of smouldering cedar. Heavy, slow, unhurried — built for cold rooms.
Black fig leaf wrapped in violet and a whisper of incense. The lightest of the eight — but it lingers.
Our perfumer Élodie Marchand builds each scent as a descent — bright at the open, then darkening as the alcohol burns off and the resins take the room. Below is the pyramid for our signature, measured against the worn skin of forty testers.
A Noctémbre flacon is meant to sit out, not be hidden in a drawer. Refill it, engrave it, and pass it on — every detail is built to last past the scent inside it.
Return your empty heavy-glass flacon and we refill it from the atelier for 30% less than a new one — the cap, the weight, the engraving all stay yours. Over 60% of our owners are on their second pour.
Up to 14 characters, scribed into the base in our own foundry serif. Complimentary above €200.
The Discovery Set: all eight in 2ml vials, with a €40 credit toward your first full bottle.
Every order ships in a wax-sealed box with a hand-numbered card. Members get the next édition before it reaches the collection — and the first to retire numbers reserved.
For the scent you already know you want, bought outright.
A new 50ml extrait four times a year, chosen for the season — at €70 below the shelf price.
All eight numbered fragrances in a lacquered oak cabinet, matched numbers across the set.
"I have worn the same designer scent for nine years. Amber Curfew is the first thing that made me put it down — it smells like a room I want to stay in."
"The refill changed how I think about owning fragrance. The flacon is six years old now, on its fourth fill. It feels like a watch, not a bottle you throw away."
"I ordered the Discovery Set expecting a gimmick. Three of the eight were good enough to be someone's signature. Vesper Smoke became mine within a week."
Anything else, write to [email protected] — a real person in Grasse answers within a day.
Concentration. Our extraits carry 20% fragrance oil against the 12–15% typical of an eau de parfum, so far less alcohol and far more of the actual scent. The trade-off is projection — an extrait sits close to the skin and lasts the night, rather than filling a room in the first hour.
No. Each fragrance is a single run of 900 numbered flacons. When the last is sold the formula is archived and the number retired — we do not re-press it. Le Cercle members can reserve a low number on the next édition before the public run opens.
We send a pre-paid sleeve; you post the empty flacon back. The atelier cleans, re-pours the same scent, and returns it in five working days at 30% below a new flacon — your engraving and cap untouched. Le Cercle members refill at half price.
Never tested on animals, and we are certified cruelty-free. We use sustainably farmed agarwood and a lab-grown oud accord rather than wild-harvested timber — indistinguishable on skin, and it keeps the endangered species in the ground.
Within 30 days, even opened, we refund the full flacon — scent is personal and we would rather you find the right one. We ask only that you start with the €38 Discovery Set so the decision is informed; that credit applies to whichever full flacon you keep.
Start with the eight-vial Discovery Set and a €40 credit. No subscription, no card kept on file.