OSSIAN Request a vial

Wear the weather.

Brume is an eau de parfum of sea mist, wet stone and iris. We send the vial before the bottle.

Written on a headland where the fog arrives before the tide.

Salt on the air. Basalt still wet from the night. Something green and bitter underfoot. Brume is that hour, kept in glass.

Closer.

Brume, as it leaves the glass.

Opens
Sea saltBergamotViolet leaf
Stays
IrisWet stoneJuniper smoke
Leaves
AmbergrisVetiverBlack cedar

Press and hold to spray

Four materials, named.

Every note on the list comes from something you could hold in your hand. These are the four that carry the rest.

Coarse sea salt crystals caught in the pits of wet black basalt.

Sea salt

Source
Mineral accord
Form
Built to smell of basalt after rain
Role
Opening. The first breath of it.
Dried orris root beside a single violet-grey iris petal on wet slate.

Iris

Source
Iris pallida
Form
Rhizome, dried and aged before distillation
Role
Heart. Cold, powdery, close to skin.
A juniper sprig with blue berries, its tip smouldering into a thin ribbon of smoke.

Juniper

Source
Juniperus communis
Form
Berries and twigs, smoked
Role
Heart. A fire someone lit on the shore.
A bundle of dried vetiver roots tied with black cord on weathered cedar.

Vetiver

Source
Chrysopogon zizanioides
Form
Root, distilled
Role
Base. The part still there tomorrow.

No colourant. No filler notes. Nothing we would not name.

The Brume bottle on wet basalt at the sea's edge, a small sample vial lying beside it as the mist lifts.

We send the vial first.

Two millilitres of Brume in a stone-grey case. Wear it through a week of real weather. The bottle follows only if you ask for it.