Aftelier Perfume Guide

Our Perfume Guide is an easy way to see our entire range of fragrances on one page. By clicking on the View button for any item, you can see its reviews and awards. To add any size of perfume (including samples) directly to your cart, click on the Add button for it. The following perfumes in our line are vegan: Boheme Confection, Cacao, Cepes & Tuberose, Embers & Musk, Joie de Vert, Oud Luban, Violet Ambrosia, Wild Roses, and the solid perfume Velvet Tuberose.

Many of our retired perfumes are listed on our Perfumes Past page here.

Amber
Amber Tapestry liquid ☞Character: Amber, warm, comforting, smooth, soft, seamless, caramel, powdery. ♫ Fragrant Notes: powdered yellow mandarin, cinnamon pear, jasmine grandiflorum, jasmine sambac, sweet ambers, leather. Amber Tapestry is evocative of vintage perfumes where the various amber facets are woven together like a golden tapestry. Jasmine grandiflorum blended with jasmine sambac create a gorgeous richly layered jasmine. I interlaced various resins to create my dream of a sweet and powdery amber base. Shimmering ambergris embroiders a luminousness sheer texture and castoreum lends a touch of leather. Amber Tapestry is based on a seamless and complete weaving together of jasmine and amber wrapping around you like sumptuous warm cashmere.	1/4 ml sample $8	2 ml mini $55	8 ml perfume $210	1 ml EDP sample $8	30 ml EDP $210	sterling flask $300
Orchid solid ☞Character: Amber, spicy floral, like oriental lilies in bloom, transporting, crisp, clean. ♫ Fragrant Notes: orange flower absolute, green spicy shiso, Turkish rose, allspice. One of my favorite fragrant flowers is the fresh and spicy oriental lily whose aroma fills my house much of the year. But alas, no natural essence can be extracted from it, so I set out to imagine a natural perfume of this fragrance. This crisp, elegant floral solid perfume evolves on the skin perfectly. I chose the name “Orchid” quixotically, because that flower’s visual beauty captures the elegance of this lily scent.	1/4 ml sample $8	8 ml perfume $295	antique cases prices vary
Secret Garden liquid ☞Character: Amber. A super-heated sable pelt of a perfume: powdery, fruity floral, soft vanilla dust laced with aged patchouli. ♫ Fragrant Notes: rosy raspberries, spicy jasmine, powdered vanilla, aged cognac, indole. Like fitting a key in a lock, when you inhale Secret Garden, you enter a redolent and sensual wild garden, where the scent awakens a vitalizing force in the wearer. Secret Garden opens into roses and wood, brightened with mixed citrus. The jasmine sambac heart of the perfume, with its spicy indolic kick, paired with the jammy raspberry, lends the illusion of spice where there is none -- like the lure of a blind pathway in a garden. The phantom spice creates a feeling of hidden mystery in this garden. The sumptuous balsamic base is rooted in beautiful deertongue (*not* an animal ingredient), which combines the sweet and powdery notes of tonka beans with the aromas of the countryside.	1/4 ml sample $8	2 ml mini $55	8 ml perfume $210	1 ml EDP sample $8	30 ml EDP $210	sterling flask $300
Chypre
Bergamoss solid ☞Character: Chypre, earthy, mossy, bright, rich, loamy, sweet. ♫ Fragrant Notes: oakmoss, bergamot, peachy rose, powdered sweet grass. Bergamoss features the sumptuous marriage of oakmoss, with its aromas of the wet forest floor, and the bright freshness of bergamot. It harkens back to the substantial and transporting chypres of old. I chose the particular essences for Bergamoss to merge with each other so completely as to blur seamlessly together. I wanted the warm texture, solidness, and deep green color to be an intimate and intrinsic part of experiencing the perfume.	1/4 ml sample $8	8 ml perfume $295	antique cases prices vary
Floral Bouquet
Lumiere liquid ☞Character: Floral Bouquet, sheer, luminous , elegant, luxurious, fine. ♫ Fragrant Notes: boronia, honeysuckle, magnolia, green tea, ambergris. This features Tasmanian boronia in a bouquet of magnolia, and honeysuckle. This sheer, elegant floral is based in the lightness of green tea and sacred frankincense. A touch of bergamot lends sparkle to the opening. Restrained yet sensual, Vogue.com calls this fragrance "addictive." Lumiere captures the experience of fine silk on the skin.	1/4 ml sample $8	2 ml mini $55	8 ml perfume $210	1 ml EDP sample $8	30 ml EDP $210	sterling flask $325
Parfum Privé liquid ☞Character: Floral Bouquet, shimmering, opulent florals, vintage, luxurious, romantic. ♫ Fragrant Notes: ambergris, osmanthus, orange flower absolute, botanical musk, faint apricot. Smells like the night air in Hawaii -- of sultry flowers, warmth and light. I wanted to balance the intense beauty of the ambergris with essences that could hold their own; botanical musk and redolent florals. I originally intended to make this lush perfume only for my own personal use, but the final perfume was too incredible not to share. Parfum Privé is the most extravagant perfume in my collection –- four of the essences cost over $10,000 per kilo: osmanthus, orange flower absolute, ambrette seed (a botanical musk) and the legendary ambergris.	1/4 ml sample $20	2 ml mini $125	8 ml perfume $400			sterling flask $520
Parfum Privé solid Same description as Parfum Privé liquid above.	1/4 ml sample $20	8 ml perfume $450	antique cases prices vary
Fruity Floral
Fig liquid ☞Character: Fruity Floral, ambrosia and nectar, animalic undertones. ♫ Fragrant Notes: jammy fir absolute, Japanese citrus, fruity Spanish lavender, jasmine sambac, hyraceum. Jasmine sambac, fir absolute, and yuzu create the richness of ripe black figs. Without a true natural fig essence available, my fig contains no fig, but employs a sleight-of-hand based on a rare, almost fruity lavender from Spain, paired with the sweet and jammy fir absolute.	1/4 ml sample $8	2 ml mini $55	8 ml perfume $210	1 ml EDP sample $8	30 ml EDP $210	sterling flask $300
Palimpsest liquid ☞Character: Fruity Floral, lush florals and ripe fruit, creamy and layered, leathery, lasting. ♫ Fragrant Notes: peachy jasmine, fruity ylang, softly animalic, a smidge of vanilla, exotic fire tree. Palimpsest perfume captures the feeling of being in the Garden of Eden at midnight: lush, wild florals, forbidden fruit, and majestic creatures in hiding. The perfume undulates down through florals as the base notes shimmer up through the top and middle notes in a seamless, scented wave. A palimpsest is an old document on which the original writing has been erased and replaced with new writing. Sometimes the older writing can still be read under the new, resulting in a complex and beautiful layering. I wanted to evoke the richness that you feel when you experience the past as alive in the present, creating the gorgeous complexity of life.	1/4 ml sample $8	2 ml mini $55	8 ml perfume $210	1 ml EDP sample $8	30 ml EDP $210	sterling flask $300
Gourmand
Boheme Confection solid ♫ Featured Notes: Pink Lotus, Patchouli, Bitter Almond, Sarsaparilla, Strawberry, Chocolate, Peru Balsam, Benzoin, Methyl Anthranilate, Maltol, Vanillin. Divinely delicious, this romantic perfume radiates a sumptuous bohemian sensuality, both sweet and earthy at the same time. The foundation of the perfume is the sexy love affair between patchouli and pink lotus. In the perfume’s heart, pink lotus is blended together with a smidge of earthy chocolate and lush strawberries. The candied notes of marzipan, spun sugar, sarsaparilla and vanilla provide a counterpoint to this intense richness.	1/4 ml sample $8	8 ml perfume $295	antique cases prices vary
Cacao liquid ☞Character: Gourmand, mouth-watering, rich, chocolatey, white florals, tart citrus. ♫ Fragrant Notes: blood orange, jasmine bouquet, rich dark chocolate. Possibly the world’s most seductive form of chocolate, with jasmine and blood orange. I create the chocolate alcohol (that is the foundation of the perfume) by tincturing deeply aromatic organic cocoa beans with very floral Tahitian vanilla beans. Using both grandiflorum and sambac jasmines, their richness marries well with the full chocolate base.	1/4 ml sample $8	2 ml mini $55	8 ml perfume $210	1 ml EDP sample $8	30 ml EDP $210	sterling flask $300
Vanilla Smoke liquid ☞Character: Gourmand, smoke-laced vanilla, creamy woods, smokey tea, powdery, sophisticated. ♫ Fragrant Notes: Madagascar vanilla absolute, tea smoked over pine, Siam wood, saffron, ambergris. Vanilla Smoke is a sexy sophisticated smoke-laced vanilla perfume. I have always loved the refined aroma of vanilla absolute from Madagascar for its gorgeous facets of wood, resin and spices. Fine vanilla absolute possesses none of the ubiquitous creamy sweet candy-like notes associated with commercial vanilla fragrances. The vanilla becomes even more beautiful when accentuated with the dark smokiness of lapsang souchong tea. Precious Siam wood offers warm balsamic wood notes that merge seamlessly with the vanilla.	1/4 ml sample $8	2 ml mini $55	8 ml perfume $210	1 ml EDP sample $8	30 ml EDP $210	sterling flask $300
Green
Joie de Vert liquid ☞Character: Green, bright, mossy, orange flower, crisp. ♫ Fragrant Notes: anise hyssop, oakmoss, firetree, orange flower, pear, styrax, bitter orange, coriander. A green dream of a fragrance inspired by my deep attachment to nature's fantastical greenness. Anise Hyssop essential oil is the perfect marriage of sweet licorice and bright, green herbalness. The deep, loamy, wet-forest aroma of oakmoss. The extraordinarily tenacious and animalic fire tree oil, and the soft vanilla facets of styrax resin. Heart of orange flower absolute, with the crispness of pear. An extraordinary Tunisian bitter orange and a smidge of leafy green coriander, to balance the sweetness of anise hyssop.	1/4 ml sample $8	2 ml mini $55	8 ml perfume $210	1 ml EDP sample $8	30 ml EDP $210	sterling flask $300
Incense
Oud Luban liquid ☞Character: Incense resins with smoke and oud. ♫ Fragrant Notes: sacred frankincense, aged patchouli, roasted seashells, oud. Leonard Cohen's favorite perfume. Dark, resinous oud is the most expensive essence in the world - here 8 varieties are blended to get the desired notes. This is a perfume of great highs and lows, with no middle notes. It opens with the fresh citrus blood orange and the finest hojari frankincense ("Luban" in Urdu). Followed by balsamic vanilla and spicy notes woven together with the fine cognac-like notes of aged patchouli. The drydown reveals the smoke and precious oud. Perfect for layering with florals.	1/4 ml sample $8	2 ml mini $55	8 ml perfume $210	1 ml EDP sample $8	30 ml EDP $210	sterling flask $325
Oud Luban solid Same description as Oud Luban liquid above.	1/4 ml sample $8	8 ml perfume $295	antique cases prices vary
Leather
Cuir de Gardenia liquid ☞Character: Leather, luxurious, narcotic, floral, sumptuous, creamy. ♫ Fragrant Notes: gardenia, leather, sweet peas, spun sugar. In Cuir de Gardenia, I wanted to retain the pure loveliness of the creamy sweet and singular gardenia fragrance, and knew that the rounded warmth of an oil-based perfume (solid and liquid) would be the perfect format. I had been incredibly fortunate to find an artisanal grower and distiller of the ultra-rare, costly, precious gardenia. Cuir de Gardenia is unusual because it has no top notes; I created it in such a way that the gardenia appears immediately, unimpeded from the opening of the perfume onward, merging seamlessly with the leather.	1/4 ml sample $8	2 ml mini $55	8 ml perfume $210	1 ml EDP sample $8	30 ml EDP $210	sterling flask $325
Musk
Antique Ambergris solid It is an aroma of the finest tonality: complex yet balanced and harmonious, with notes of damp moss-covered forest ground, exotic wood and spices, faded flowers, ancient cathedral incense, warm animal musk, and ocean air. Because I used both antique civet and antique ambergris in this perfume, there are many phantom notes you can smell that come from the mysterious locking together of these complex aromas, along with some aged cypress. And coumarin weaves its powdery air-brushed texture throughout. The creamy texture of solid perfume is the perfect medium for Antique Ambergris, where its opulent and extravagant lusciousness, filled with warmth and life, is worn close to the body. Gorgeous on its own, it can also be layered over or under any other perfume to extend it and add shimmer. Selected Notes: - Antique ambergris -- amber, warm, sweet, marine, woody - Antique civet -- animalic, tender, floral, multi-layered - Aged cypress absolute -- jammy sweet, warmth of the forest - Coumarin -- powdery softness	1/4 ml sample $15	8 ml perfume $375	antique cases prices vary
Embers & Musk liquid ☞Character: Musky ♫ Fragrant Notes: ambrettolide, pine tar, guaiacol, pink pepper, apple, red champaca, yuzu. Embers and Musk is a smoldering fire of a perfume. I couldn't resist the sweet smoky wildness of pine tar, and wanted to marry it to the clean musk of ambrettolide. I love the transparent etherealness of botanical musk derived from ambrette seeds recalling the scent of clean skin. The musk darts in and out of the smoky airiness of pine tar woven together with guaiacol -- the component of whiskey -- which lends a delicacy to the perfume's smoky facets. Pink pepper absolute, an essence that is no longer available, adds a bit of spice and berry. The narcotic red champaca absolute, which I buy from the grower, is one of the most extraordinarily gorgeous floral essences, boasting an equal measure of sweet spice and heady floral. I included just a smidge of red champaca -- to add a voluptuousness -- but not enough to register as floral. The dry, light freshness of Japanese yuzu paired with apple lends a sheer elegant brightness to the opening of the perfume.	1/4 ml sample $8	2 ml mini $55	8 ml perfume $210	1 ml EDP sample $8	30 ml EDP $210	sterling flask $300
Memento Mori liquid ☞Character: Musky, animalic, slightly floral, alchemical, like clean skin, lingering. ♫ Fragrant Notes: orris, sheer rose, light amber, butter, antique civet, woody violets. The wearer has the experience of the perfume changing on their skin, much as time changes memory. Memento Mori recalls tender memories of the skin and body of someone with whom you have been intimate, and the ways that you treasure and long for that which you remember when they are lost to you. We want to hold the vanished beauty close even as we experience the piercing quality of memory. Perfect for layering over another perfume to add a musky layer.	1/4 ml sample $8	2 ml mini $55	8 ml perfume $210	1 ml EDP sample $8	30 ml EDP $210	sterling flask $300
Soliflore
Cepes and Tuberose liquid ☞Character: Soliflore-Earthy, dirty floral, unique, slightly sweet dry-down, fresh earth, dry. ♫ Fragrant Notes: porcini mushrooms, tuberose, bitter orange, sandalwood and rosewood. Wild mushrooms, with their animal undertones and one of the world's most voluptuous florals: Wild porcini mushrooms and Italian tuberose play a mysterious and earthy duet. Even though it features tuberose, it is more like flowers pulled out from their roots with the dirt still clinging to them. One of my more enigmatic perfumes, it has won many awards and fans. --- Chosen as one of “100 Perfumes Every Perfumista Should Try” by Now Smell This.	1/4 ml sample $8	2 ml mini $55	8 ml perfume $210	1 ml EDP sample $8	30 ml EDP $210	sterling flask $300
Honey Blossom liquid ☞Character: Soliflore, sheer, light, sweet, happy, transparent, floral. ♫ Fragrant Notes: linden blossom, mimosa, orange flower, tea rose and ambergris. Beautiful honeyed floral, hypnotic with notes of honeysuckle. If there were a flower that smelled like honey, this would be it. Sheer and reminiscent of being in a meadow, this light floral is a perfect pairing for warmer weather.	1/4 ml sample $8	2 ml mini $55	8 ml perfume $210	1 ml EDP sample $8	30 ml EDP $210	sterling flask $300
Jasmine solid ☞Character: Soliflore, uplifting, bright, narcotic floral. ♫ Fragrant Notes: heady pure jasmine matched by mouth-watering citrus. Grandiflorum jasmine with blood orange and pink grapefruit. Jasmine flower is a very seductive scent; it will woo you. I balanced the heady, intense, narcotic floral aroma with the brightest of citruses. Jasmine solid is perfect to layer with any other perfume to add this floral brightness.	1/4 ml sample $8	8 ml perfume $295	antique cases prices vary
Velvet Tuberose solid ☞Character: Creamy, sweet, languid, narcotic, luscious, voluptuous. ♫ Fragrant Notes: pink grapefruit, grand fir, transparent florals, tuberose absolute, heady white flowers, creamy sandalwood, damp earth, spun sugar. This tuberose perfume has a luxuriant and sumptuous texture like velvet. As a perfumer, I wanted to highlight the various aromatic facets of tuberose: creamy, sweet, languid, narcotic, voluptuous, and astonishingly beautiful. Lazing around the tuberose and providing a sheer but rich foundation is the rare mitti attar: a traditional aromatic essence of baked earth distilled into creamy high-quality Indian sandalwood. It is the scent brought on as rain falls on sun-drenched soil and the earth awakens and breathes forth its heady aroma. Sweet and juicy grand fir and pink grapefruit lock together to create sweet forest notes that lift and vivify the narcotic tuberose.	1/4 ml sample $8	8 ml perfume $295	antique cases prices vary
Violet Ambrosia liquid ☞Character: violet, honeyed, warm, light, fresh, sweet, transparent, green. ♫ Fragrant Notes: aged broom, alpha ionone, vanilla, violet leaf, raspberry, ylang ylang, sandalwood, mimosa, bergamot. The pairing of violet and broom flowers creates the perfume of fresh honeyed violets. Broom (Genêt), a small very fragrant flower, smells divinely of honey -- like inhaling the open air in a field of wildflowers. Light and fresh, sweet and transparent, this honeyed floral perfume captures the experience of burying your nose in a bunch of freshly picked violets.	1/4 ml sample $8	2 ml mini $55	8 ml perfume $210	1 ml EDP sample $8	30 ml EDP $210
Wild Roses liquid ☞Character: Soliflore Rose Bouquet: I wanted to capture the experience of walking in my garden and smelling each rose, as their perfumes blended in my nose with the smell of the leaves and earth. ♫ Fragrant Notes: rose petal attar, Turkish rose absolute, apricot, candied orange flower, tarragon, vanilla dust. Candied-orange flower and powdered bergamot contribute a modern freshness to the opening of Wild Roses. The apricot-rose heart is perfectly rooted in a base of tarragon absolute -- its herbal rounded anise aroma giving a nuance of both earth and leaves. The balsamic vanilla absolute and the whiskey-ness of aged patchouli support tarragon’s warm, powdery aspect.	1/4 ml sample $8	2 ml mini $55	8 ml perfume $210	1 ml EDP sample $8	30 ml EDP $210	sterling flask $300
Woods
Fir solid ☞Character: Sweet Woods, uplifting, foresty, bright, rich, woody, sweet. ♫ Fragrant Notes: melange of various fir essential oils and absolutes with a splash of citrus and stone fruit. With its rich jam-like notes of forests and fir trees, this perfume is the perfect walk in the woods. Fir absolute has an aromatic quality of stone fruit along with fir trees. Beautiful on its own, Fir blends beautifully on the skin with any other perfume adding a cheerful, warm, uplifting sweet layering.	1/4 ml sample $8	8 ml perfume $295	antique cases prices vary
Forest Bathing liquid ☞Character: woody, clean, crisp, cool, airy. 🌲Forest Notes: •Hinoki – radiant woodiness •Fir absolute – jammy sweet forest •Cypress bioabsolute – rich, spicy, mossy •Sugi wood – Japanese cedar, creamy with sandalwood facets 💨Air Notes: •Myrrh from Namibia -smooth, fresh, resinous •Pear- crisp and cool •Linalyl acetate – a slice of bergamot •Cypress – clean, airy, oceanic •Beta ionone- transparent wood violets The divine alchemy of air and trees: the experience of the forest cannot be fully captured in words or images, because it is made up of the richness of aromas, the mood of light, the texture of air, the drama of upward motion, and our place inside that verticality.	1/4 ml sample $8	2 ml mini $55	8 ml perfume $210	1 ml EDP sample $8	30 ml EDP $210	sterling flask $300
Sepia liquid ☞Character: Woody Tobacco, earthy, dark, round, rich, musky, indolic, oud. ♫ Fragrant Notes: blood cedarwood, coffee, oud, flowering tobacco, cocoa dust, pink lotus, strawberry. Sepia Perfume was inspired by trips driving around Northern California's Gold Country looking at ghost towns and feeling consistently struck by their desolate splendor. Sepia is a tint, a watercolor wash, an atmosphere, a memory. With its soft, sheer, presence, it becomes warmer as it lingers on your skin in a diaphanous veil. Yellow mandarin melds seamlessly with the blood cedarwood to create the elegant deep woody citrus opening. At the perfume's heart, neither the coffee nor the cocoa lend a gourmand note, but create an earthy and dark counterpoint to the full-bodied pink lotus -- with a hint of strawberry. Musky flowering tobacco in the base echoes the opening of the rich blood cedarwood. The murmur of cepes, married with the ambergris and oud, creates an atmosphere of aging elegance.	1/4 ml sample $8	2 ml mini $55	8 ml perfume $210	1 ml EDP sample $8	30 ml EDP $210	sterling flask $300