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A small fragrance house run by one person in Queensland. I blend each scent by hand from fragrance oils and perfumer's alcohol, let it sit, and bottle it in 50 ml runs.

Every release is built around something that actually happened. A place, a month, a day I remember the smell of. The number on the bottle is the year it happened.

All three are blended at 40% and labelled extrait de parfum. On most people that's six to eight hours on skin and longer on a collar or a jumper.

They're not designed to fill a room. no '13 is the loudest of the three and two sprays is plenty. no '19 sits close to the skin on purpose. If you want to be noticed from across a room, it isn't the one.

Neither. Nothing here is split by gender and nothing will be. A milk and sandalwood accord doesn't know who's wearing it.

If you want a rough steer: no '17 is the easiest to wear in public, no '13 is the one people comment on, and no '19 is the one you wear for yourself.

Perfumer's alcohol, fragrance concentrate, and a small amount of water. The full ingredient list including IFRA-declarable allergens is printed on every carton.

Nothing is tested on animals. If you have a known sensitivity, patch test on your inner arm and give it a day before wearing it properly.

It's the year the thing in the bottle happened. no '17 is a January afternoon in 2017 spent waiting for a barge at Inskip Point. It went on sale in 2026.

The number doubles as the catalogue code, so no '17 is M—017 on the label. One number, one memory, never reused.

Because memory doesn't. The record is a list of years, and I fill one in whenever I finally get a blend right. The three that exist happen to be 2013, 2017 and 2019.

The empty rows on the record page aren't teasers. They're years I have something for and haven't cracked yet. Some of them may stay empty permanently. see the record

Where and when it happened, as in recorded: k'gari, january. The year is left off because the product number already carries it.

Underneath it the label also carries the batch, the concentration, the volume, and a blank line marked decanted. That one's for you to fill in, or not.

recorded

k'gari, january

batch

001

conc.

40% · extrait de parfum

vol.

50 ml

decanted

The record with no data. No year, no place, blank recorded: field, black and white label. It's the one release that isn't tied to a memory, and it's deliberately unpleasant.

There's no date on it. It shows up in the record as unscheduled and it'll stay that way until it's done.

Yes. A number is permanent even when the batch isn't. When 001 runs out, 002 follows with the same formula. The batch number on your bottle tells you which run you have.

A sold-out number can be a few weeks away rather than a few days. Sign up on the product page and you'll get one email when it's back, and nothing else. see q. 05.1

Australia only at the moment. Alcohol-based fragrance is treated as dangerous goods by air, and getting that right internationally is a job I haven't done yet.

Orders go out from Queensland and land in 2–4 business days in the capitals, a bit longer regionally. Free over $75.

Within 30 days, opened or not, for a full refund. Email with your order number and I'll send a return label. Half-empty bottles are fine. You can't know if you like something from one wearing.

If it arrives damaged or leaking, don't bother returning it. Send a photo and a replacement goes out the same day.

Every batch sits for six weeks after blending before it's filled. That's when the sharp alcohol edge drops away and the blend settles. Selling it early would be selling a worse product.

Anything in stock ships the next business day. If a number has gone to backorder, the product page says so before you pay, with the date.

No wrapping, because the carton is already the nicest thing I could make it. There's a note field at checkout and I'll write it on the card by hand.

Nothing in the box has a price on it. Tick the gift box at checkout and the receipt is emailed to you instead.

Every number is made in batches. A batch gets blended, sits in the dark for six weeks q. 03.3, then gets filled and labelled by hand. It opens, and when it's gone it closes. By then the next one is usually already resting.

The number never leaves the record. The batch line on your label says which run yours came from, and batch 001 only happens once.

$20 sets aside one bottle from batch 001 with your name on it. When the batch opens you hear first, before the waitlist, and $30 comes off the bottle, so you pay $80 at the drop instead of $110. Yours ships the day it opens, and the $20 is refundable until then.

It's for people who already know which one they want. If you'd rather wait and see, the waitlist is free and sends one email. hold one