Brief. Sourcing. Development. London blend — ethanol, concentrate, fixatives, by hand. −89°C chill. 12 weeks of maceration. Filtration. Now: bottling, by hand, in London. This is the end of the process. Here is what it looks like.

Hand-bottling is the final production stage. The filtered formula — clear, stable, fully macerating for 12 weeks — is transferred from the filtration vessel to the final atomiser bottles using a measured dispensing process executed by hand in our London lab. Each bottle is filled to the specified volume, weighed to confirm fill accuracy, sealed with the atomiser head, and wiped clean before labelling. The label carries the formula name, concentration designation, production season, and ingredient list. Each bottle is individually inspected — fill level, seal integrity, label accuracy — before it is approved for dispatch. A bottle that does not pass inspection is not released.

WHAT WE DID

Because the aromatic materials in our formulas are sourced seasonally from France, Belgium, and Saudi Arabia, each batch carries a slight variation in character from the last. The formula is the same. The materials it is built from — the rose absolute, the oud, the resins, the florals — are seasonal. A material harvested in one season has a different aromatic profile from the same material harvested six months later. We do not correct for this variation with synthetics. We document it. Each batch is labelled with its production season so that the character of that batch can be understood in context. The house retains a reference sample from every batch for a minimum of 12 months — held in the London lab for quality comparison against future batches. The process is complete.

WHAT COMES NEXT

The next batch brief is in development. The full process — sourcing from our labs in France, Belgium, and Saudi Arabia, London blending by hand, −89°C chill, 12 weeks of maceration, filtration, and hand-bottling — begins again. If you want to know when the next batch is available, join the community waitlist.