Maison de Parfum · Grasse · Depuis 1987

An experience in silk, candlelight and ink. Scroll slowly.

Every film on this page was generated & directed by the machine that built it

01 — La Philosophie

Scent is the only art that enters the body uninvited.

We distill slowly, in copper, in the hills above Grasse — the way our founder Élise Duval insisted, against every accountant she ever met. Each extrait rests eleven months in darkness before a single flacon is filled.

No brief. No focus group. A CÉLESTE perfume begins as a memory — a storm on hot stone, the inside of a piano, a lover's collar — and ends only when the memory is exact.

02 — Le Flacon

Aube d'Or

First light on the Côte d'Azur, before anyone is awake to see it. Bergamote picked in the dark, mimosa still holding the night's cold, a thread of white honey.

The flacon is frosted by hand and capped in brushed gold; the candle in this film is real time — nothing here is looped in a hurry.

Bergamote · Mimosa · Miel blanc

Extrait 50 ml — 290 €
03 — La Nuit

Encre Nocturne

A letter written at midnight and never sent. Cold incense, black iris butter, leather that remembers a library it never saw.

Worn after dark it stays close to the skin, like something you decided not to say.

Encens · Iris noir · Cuir d'ombre

Extrait 50 ml — 310 €
04 — La Composition

The olfactory pyramid
of Encre Nocturne

Notes de tête

Pink pepper, cold incense smoke, a breath of aldehydes

the first seven minutes

Notes de cœur

Black iris butter, violet leaf, wet slate

hours one through four

Notes de fond

Shadow leather, labdanum, vetiver aged in oak

until morning