Smoked · $210
Cendre
The last ember of a dinner-party fire.
Smoked tea, incense, and old leather — built for cold rooms, low light, and the last hour of a long evening.
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The composition
- Top
- Pink pepper, Cardamom, Smoked tea
- Heart
- Incense, Rose, Leather accord
- Base
- Oud, Vetiver, Dry amber
The note, in full
How Cendre wears.
Cendre opens without ceremony — pink pepper and cardamom, warm rather than spicy, quickly joined by a smoked tea accord that gives the whole top a low, grey haze instead of a bright citrus lift. It smells like a room where a fire has just been put out.
Incense arrives early and stays late, cut with a dark, slightly jammy rose that keeps the composition from reading as purely liturgical. A leather accord — built without animalic notes, entirely from labdanum and birch tar in careful proportion — gives the heart its structure.
The dry-down is where Cendre becomes a signature rather than a mood: oud (a clean, low-dosage cut, not a barnyard one), vetiver, and a dry, unsweetened amber that reads more mineral than gourmand. This is a fragrance for people who find most 'oud' fragrances exhausting; Cendre is built for restraint.