01 — EAU DE PARFUM
Cendre Noire
Burnt cedar & cold incense
TopBlack pepper · Bergamot rind
HeartSmoked cedar · Dried violet
BaseOud · Cold ash · Labdanum
$ 245 50ml
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Niche Fragrance House · Est. MMXIV
Compositions built on oud, smoke and resin — slow, low and worn close to the skin.
Enter the collectionBurnt cedar & cold incense
Rose crushed into resin
Amber held over a flame
The scent of a room the morning after the fire. Read it from the first breath down to the last.
It opens sharp and cold, then collapses into something far older — resin, charred wood, the ghost of incense that has long since gone out. Worn close, it lingers for the better part of a day, turning warmer and more skin-like as the hours pass. Made in small batches; never reformulated for cost.
"I don't make perfume that wants to be liked. I make the scent you reach for when no one is watching."
I grew up between a tannery and an incense market, where the air was never neutral — leather, smoke, rose, resin, all of it at once. I spent eleven years compounding for houses that asked me to make everything brighter, cleaner, safer. Eventually I stopped asking permission.
Oud & Ember is small on purpose. I blend in batches I can smell by hand, age them in the dark, and refuse to thin a formula to hit a price. Each composition is built around a single dark accord and given room to misbehave on the skin.
Naïma SefraouiFounder & Nose
A dark fragrance is not announced. It is allowed to surface.
Apply to pulse points still warm from a bath — the inner wrist, the hollow of the throat. Heat opens the top notes and lets the resins move.
Let it dry untouched. Crushing the molecules dulls the smoke and flattens the heart. Patience is the first note of every extrait.
Give it twenty minutes before you decide. The scent you keep secret reveals itself slowly — and stays close, only for those who lean in.
All three compositions in 2ml travel vials, presented in a blackened tin. The full price is credited toward your first bottle — wear the dark before you commit to it.
$ 38 3 × 2mlNew releases, small-batch restocks, and the occasional note from the bench. Sent rarely, never sold.
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