The first breath
Cold dawn air, salt, and a green note that lingers
Halcyon opens the way a coastal morning does — bergamot and sea mist over a quiet vetiver. The first ten minutes are deliberately cool, so the warmth that follows feels earned.
No. 19MorpheusEau de Parfum1 of 900
A limited first run of nine hundred numbered bottles. Scroll, and the sky overhead warms exactly the way the scent does on skin — cool sea air at first light, amber and dry cedar by evening. The page is one long golden afternoon; reserve your place in it before the maceration is poured.
Numbered 1–900 · 22% parfum oil · fully refundable hold · ships from the atelier
The origin · est. on the Ligurian coast
One brief, held for two winters: bottle the feeling of a calm day — the hour the morning chill lifts and the light turns golden without you noticing.
It took two seasons of macerations to find the arc, and a glassmaker who would frost only the shoulder of the vessel so it catches that same evening light. Nothing here is rushed: the oils rest six weeks before they are judged, the field is cut before sunrise, and the run stops at nine hundred bottles — the most the still room can pour without hurrying.
We were not making a perfume. We were trying to keep one hour of light from leaving the room.
The arc · on skin
The same arc your scroll is walking, worn on skin: a cool first breath, a heart that holds through the long light, a base that warms as the day lets go. Eleven hours, one continuous hour-hand.
The first breath
Halcyon opens the way a coastal morning does — bergamot and sea mist over a quiet vetiver. The first ten minutes are deliberately cool, so the warmth that follows feels earned.
The long noon
Orris and a soft fig keep the centre still. This is the hour the fragrance settles into the skin and stops announcing itself — present, never loud, the way a calm room is.
The slow dusk
By evening the base turns golden — sandalwood, a trace of amber, dry cedar. The scroll you are doing now is the same arc the scent walks: cool to warm, dawn to dusk.
From the atelier — Liguria, spring 2026
Four plates from the shoot book, ordered the way the day moves — dawn field to dusk room. No retouching; the light did the work.
The composition
Every claim on this page is measured, dated and disclosed. Below is the actual composition certificate that ships inside the carton — the pyramid, the on-skin arc, and the third-party assay behind it.
IFRA-compliant · cold-pressed in 48 h windows · third-party assayed by Maison Vernier, Grasse · full disclosure on the carton.
Reserve · the first run
Nine hundred bottles, numbered by hand, decanted from a single batch and never repeated. Reservations stay open through the season and ship from the atelier in the autumn. Your hold is fully refundable until bottling — no charge today, just your place in the run.