Aged slowly,
by hand.
Four rooms, nine people, and a rule that has not changed since 2014: nothing leaves before it is ready, and readiness is not a date on a calendar.
GrasseFour rooms, nine hands
Sourcing
Eleven growers, most of them for a decade. We buy the harvest, not the year.
Blending
Batches of forty litres. Every formula is weighed by hand and signed by whoever weighed it.
Resting
Eighteen months minimum in oak, in a cellar we do not heat. Some casks take three winters.
Bottling
Hand-blown crystal, filled and stoppered in the room next to the cellar, sealed with a wax signet.
Time is
an ingredient.
Alcohol and oil do not become one thing quickly. Left alone in wood, the sharp top notes drop away and what remains is rounder, quieter and far more itself.
An unrested perfume announces its ingredients one at a time. A rested one arrives as a single idea. That difference costs us eighteen months and cannot be bought back any other way.
We do not filter afterwards. A little sediment is the proof.
We are not slow because it is romantic. We are slow because it works.