NOIRE No. 1 is constructed from oud harvested at altitude, black rose absolute from Provence, and aged vetiver from Haiti. It does not ask to be worn. It asks to be chosen.
The bottle is hand-blown black glass, faceted to catch light the way volcanic glass catches light — reluctantly. The stopper is raw volcanic stone, hand-fitted. No two identical.
Every edition of NOIRE No. 1 is numbered by hand. There will be no second edition.
NOIRE No. 1 is not worn morning to evening. It is worn when the occasion demands that you arrive before you enter the room.
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Harvested from trees infected by the Phialophora parasite — a wound that produces resin. The rarer the wood, the deeper the darkness. Origin: Assam, northeast India. Age at harvest: minimum 40 years.
The black rose does not exist in nature. It is bred at a single cooperative in Grasse, achieving near-black pigmentation through fourteen generations of crossing. Absolute yield: four tonnes of blooms per litre of oil.
The roots, not the grass. Aged two years in open air after harvest. Vetiver from Haiti carries a smokier, earthier signature than its Réunion counterpart. It is what remains.
“Noire is not black. It is every colour compressed into the refusal to reflect.”
— House of NOIRE, MMXXIV
