La Messe Noire
La Messe Noire
La Messe Noire opens like a match struck in a sealed room, crackling with fiery and animalic black pepper absolute, bitter and intoxicating wormwood oil, and a ceremonial candle accord throws off wax, heat and faint soot. Tuberose and jasmine grandiflorum absolutes bloom in the candlelight, lush and unsettling, while iris and violet leaf add a cool powdered edge. Armagnac then spills through the opening, dark, rich and fruity-sweet. The heart is ritual, sacred incense thickens the air as rose de Mai and Isparta rose absolutes turn bruised, wine-dark and devotional. Oakwood CO₂, maté absolute and tobacco absolute help stain the composition with ambery warmth, while clary sage and Hiba wood keep it refined. The base seals the pact, leather, lanolin, oud, birch tar and sandalwood move through ciste SEV, labdanum, Sumatran benzoin, Peru balsam, olibanum, myrrh and gurjun, building a resin-black smoke enriched finish.
Release year: 2026
Fragrance Notes
Fragrance Notes
Top notes • Wormwood oil, black pepper absolute, tuberose absolute, jasmine grandiflorum absolute, ceremonial candle accord, iris accord, Armagnac accord, and violet leaf absolute.
Heart notes • Sacred incense accord, rose de Mai absolute, oakwood CO₂, clary sage absolute, Isparta rose absolute, maté absolute, tobacco absolute, and Hiba wood oil.
Base notes • Leather accord, sandalwood oil, wool absolute, ciste absolute SEV, Sumatran benzoin resinoid, oud accord, Brazilian vetiver oil, gurjun oil, olibanum resinoid vulcain, birch tar oil, woody ambers, myrrh oil, patchouli absolute, oakmoss absolute, labdanum absolute, exalting musks, Peru balsam absolute, guaiac wood oil, cypriol oil, and decalepis root absolute.
Concentration • Concentré Suprême.
Ageing • As with all of our perfumes, once compounded, this fine fragrance is macerated for a minimum of one month, with a minimum of one month of maturation.
Inspiration
Inspiration
“The abyss below stirs with teeth, coiled, and hungry.”
Ingredients
Ingredients
Denatured Alcohol • Fragrance (Parfum) • Citronellol • Linalool • Alpha isomethylionone • Evernia Prunastri (Oak moss extract, Atranol removed) • Geraniol • Benzyl salicylate • Coumarin • Farnesol • Benzyl cinnamate • Benzyl benzoate • Eugenol • Isoeugenol • Cinnamyl alcohol • Benzyl alcohol • Citral.
• Our fine fragrances are crafted using Soil Association certified Organic Ethanol.
• This fragrance utilizes a high percentage of quality natural materials. This may result in a possibility for colour variations between batches. Rest assured that these variations do not affect the scent, performance, or quality of this perfume. In essence, nature chooses the final colour of each fragrance.
• AI was not used in the formulation of this fine fragrance.
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