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Adore
A sun-drenched opening of Italian citrus that collapses into a warm amber dusk — the fragrance that made the house.
Citrus that actually tastes of citrus. Fruit that opens like a window. Tobacco that smells like a fire, not a pipe. Four signatures, blended and hand-finished in our Sheikh Zayed Road atelier, shipped to eighty-one countries.
We are a small house in Dubai with an unreasonable amount of ambition. Four compositions, each built around a single idea and refined until nothing was left over.
Every bottle is filled, capped, gold-foiled and numbered by hand within a kilometre of where the perfume was composed. Nothing is outsourced, and nothing is rushed — a new fragrance rests for eight weeks before it is allowed to leave the building.
Each composition was designed for a particular hour of the day and a particular kind of person. Start with the one that sounds like you.
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A sun-drenched opening of Italian citrus that collapses into a warm amber dusk — the fragrance that made the house.
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Blackcurrant on a velvet night — rose, violet and jasmine suspended over sugared amber and vanilla absolute.
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Orange and ginger over orange blossom and jasmine, grounded in patchouli and creamy sandalwood.
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Spicy, warm, smoky, sweet and luxurious — pink pepper and star anise over tobacco, tonka and amber.
Sheikh Zayed Road, Dubai — filling, capping, gold-foiling, numbering and boxing, all within a kilometre of where the fragrance was composed.
A new formula rests for eight weeks before it is allowed to leave the building. It is the slowest part of the process and the reason the house smells the way it does.
Cold-pressed bergamot from Calabria against a sparkling citron and bitter orange, then Tunisian neroli, ginger and cinnamon, settled on ambrexan, Chinese black tea, guaiac wood and olibanum.
It is the fragrance that made the house, and the one we still refuse to reformulate. The citrus is bitter-edged rather than sweet, and it holds its nerve for ten hours on skin.
Each fragrance opens in three movements. Choose a bottle to see what you will meet, and in what order.
Adore is the first thing we ever made and still the one we refuse to reformulate. Cold-pressed bergamot from Calabria opens against a sparkling citron and bitter orange, then the heart unfolds in Tunisian neroli, a bright ginger and the warm flicker of cinnamon. It settles slowly on an ambrexan base laced with Chinese black tea, smoky guaiac wood and a clean lift of olibanum.
Midnight Mirage opens on a dark, sparkling fruit accord: blackcurrant, Amalfi lemon and a crisp red apple that snaps like candied ice. The heart is where the mirage lives — Turkish rose absolute, a violet so plush it reads as suede, and heady jasmine. It dries down to a base of sugared amber, vanilla absolute, clean musk, sandalwood and a dry cedarwood finish that keeps it anchored long after the fruit is gone.
Prestige is the most traditional composition in the house: a bright peel of orange cut with a clean ginger extract, then orange blossom and jasmine for the elegance, and finally patchouli with sandalwood for a velvet, expensive-smelling base. It is quiet, polished and endlessly wearable — the bottle we gift when we are unsure.
CD Intense is our boldest composition. Pink pepper and star anise strike first, bright and slightly numbing, before bergamot brings it back into balance. The heart is the smoke: patchouli and tobacco leaf. The base is where it becomes addictive — tonka bean, vanilla, orris butter and a deep, glowing amber that clings for a full working day.
Free tracked shipping on orders over $120. Dispatched from Dubai within 24 hours.
If the scent is not yours, send the bottle back within fourteen days. No questions, no restocking fee.
Every bottle carries a batch code and security seal. We authenticate anything bought elsewhere, free.
Signature gold-foil wrapping and a handwritten note, on every order, at no cost.
Add two 2ml travel vials of your choice with any order, on us.
Each cap is finished with the diamond mark and the CD monogram in hand-applied gold.
We buy absolutes and extracts from the same growers our founder used for the first formulation — neroli from Nabeul, vanilla from Madagascar, patchouli from Sulawesi.
Every formula is blended in a Dubai laboratory by a perfumer of fifteen years, then rested for eight weeks before it is allowed into a bottle.
Filling, capping and gold-foiling happen within a kilometre of our Sheikh Zayed Road atelier. Every batch is numbered by hand.
Sealed in protective packaging and shipped worldwide — tracked, insured and climate-aware, from Dubai to eighty-one countries.
We dispatch from Dubai to eighty-one countries with insured, climate-aware packaging and a tracking code from the moment the parcel leaves the atelier.
Adore is the only perfume I have ever finished and immediately re-bought. The citrus opening is genuinely bitter and beautiful — nothing like the usual sweet bergamot.
Midnight Mirage lasts on me from a 7pm dinner until sunrise. I bought the 50ml, then a second bottle for my sister two weeks later.
CD Intense is a serious fragrance. Tobacco and tonka in perfect balance — warm without being sweet, smoky without being heavy.
Prestige is the quiet one. It gets compliments in a room where the other three would get attention. Brilliant for the office.
Shipping to Accra took six days and arrived in perfect condition, gold foil and all. The packaging alone feels like a gift.
I did not expect a house from Dubai to beat the French houses at their own game. Adore is now my signature.
Craft
Six points on the skin, one spray of silence, and the difference between smelling expensive and smelling expensive.
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Maison
Inside the Sheikh Zayed Road workshop: numbered batches, hand-applied gold and eight weeks of resting.
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Guide
Four bottles, four temperaments. A guide to picking the one that will actually become yours.
Read the storyWe ship to 81 countries worldwide from our Dubai atelier. Average transit is two to four days across the Gulf and Europe, four to seven for Africa and the Middle East, and six to nine for Asia, Oceania and the Americas.
Duties and taxes are prepaid at checkout for most destinations, so nothing is collected when your parcel arrives. A small number of countries require local clearance — we will flag this before you pay.
Fourteen days from delivery, on unused bottles in their original packaging. We arrange the return label and refund to your original payment method within five working days of the parcel reaching us.
Away from direct sunlight and heat, with the cap on. A bedroom drawer is ideal. The bathroom is the worst place in the house for a perfume — humidity and heat break down the top notes within months.
Every bottle carries a two-part batch code on the base of the glass and a security seal on the collar. You can also send us any bottle and we will authenticate it free of charge.
Start with the collection, or let us narrow it down. Every order includes two 2ml travel vials so you can live with a scent before committing to the 50ml bottle.