ATELIER / ATELIER 09 / EST. 2022

Scent for

standing still

in loud places.

ATELIER 09 is an independent fragrance laboratory in Lisbon. We blend six extraits and a few objects once a year, in batches of 300, and we show them the way we would want to smell them: one at a time.

Pale pink perfume bottle on an oak bench with a brass scale, glass flasks and a reference shelf

THE ATELIER / LISBON / OAK BENCH, SCALE AND REFERENCE SHELF

INGREDIENTS

Orris butter

Tuscany, Italy

Iris root aged for three years before it is extracted. A kilo of butter takes two tonnes of roots.

Atlas cedar smoke

Middle Atlas, Morocco

The wood is burned to charcoal and the smoke is captured and distilled, not the wood itself.

Fig leaf absolute

Calabria, Italy

Green, milky and slightly bitter. We buy the whole yield of one small grower.

Raw labdanum

Andalusia, Spain

A sticky resin scraped from rockrose shrubs in summer. It is the dark amber under half the collection.

PRODUCTION NOTES

Small batches

Each extrait is blended in a batch of 300 bottles. When a batch is gone, the next one is numbered and slightly different.

Cold and slow

Every blend macerates for eight weeks, is chilled to 4°C and filtered twice by hand. Nothing is rushed to meet a launch date.

No testers, no gift sets

We send a discovery set instead. Its price is credited against your first full bottle.

Refills for life

Send any empty flacon back to the atelier. We clean it, refill it and charge for the juice only.

LOCATION

Rua da Escola Politécnica 112, 1250-100 Lisbon, Portugal

Atelier visits by appointment, Tuesday to Friday, 11:00 to 18:00

CONTACT

Questions about a blend, a refill or the discovery set? Write to the atelier.

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