RUŌOD House
RUŌOD House Originals
120 original perfumes and 14 house accords composed by RUŌOD House — from transparent colognes and youthful fruity florals to animalic white flowers, mineral leathers and smoky gourmands. Each is a complete concentrate of 1,000 parts, every ingredient a verified material in the Material Encyclopedia, with its concept, its development from opening to base, and its composition notes.
- 120 perfumes
- 25 RUŌOD House Creations
- 14 house accords
- 19 families
How the collection is built
- Written by material, printed by name. Every formula was composed against verified material records and then printed by name; the library resolved each name back to its record on its own, and the two had to agree line for line.
- 1,000 parts, exactly. Every formula and accord adds up to 1,000.00 parts. A potent material is weighed as a stated dilution in DPG rather than in amounts too small to weigh.
- Accords expanded, never double counted. Where a perfume uses one of the collection's own accords, the accord is expanded into its materials and merged into the perfume's lines, and the page says which accord it contains and at how many parts.
- Distinct by design. Each formula was compared with every other on the weight of the materials they share, and no material is used in more than 40% of the perfumes, so the collection does not rest on one house base.
- Safety and compliance. Prohibited and impractically restricted materials were left out and restricted ones kept to conservative levels. Regulatory assessment pending: no formula-level assessment is documented yet, so none is said to be compliant, and each page lists the IFRA Standards, phototoxic materials and EU-labelled allergens that concern it.
- Names. The names are the collection's own. None has been through a trademark search, and each needs one before any commercial use.
RUŌOD House Creations
The house's signatures: the most ambitious ideas in the collection, most built on a contrast — brightness against darkness, freshness against smoke, flowers against animal depth.
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Metallic rose, woody · Gender-neutral
A rose drawn in pencil.
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Marine amber · Gender-neutral
A ship's lantern on a cold quay: warm beeswax and amber glowing inside a cage of salt air.
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Animalic white floral, smoky · Gender-neutral
Jasmine flowering on the wall of a foundry at night.
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Saffron leather · Gender-neutral
A red lacquered box lined with leather.
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Marine, papery, woody · Gender-neutral
An old seaside library at low tide: foxed paper and cracked leather bindings, ink, and the smell of seaweed and wet salt drifting in through an open window.
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Green leather, metallic · Gender-neutral
The copper-green patina on the brass fittings of an old saddle.
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Citrus incense · Gender-neutral
Incense burning in a sunlit room with a bowl of oranges on the table.
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Animalic orange blossom · Feminine
Orange blossom picked at dusk and carried into a fox's den.
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Transparent oud · Gender-neutral
A paper lantern lit inside an agarwood grove.
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Skin animalic, spiced · Gender-neutral
The warmth of skin after dancing.
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Anisic, inky, powdery · Gender-neutral
A fountain pen filled with liquorice-black ink.
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Pale smoke, milky woods · Gender-neutral
A birch forest in snow, and the ghost of a wood fire somewhere far off.
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Honeyed animalic amber · Gender-neutral
An old oak throne rubbed with beeswax and honey for centuries: golden wax, honey's animal sweetness, labdanum, immortelle and dark polished oak.
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Dark cherry, resinous · Feminine
A black-cherry lacquered chest.
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Vegetal green, abstract · Gender-neutral
A theory of green.
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Leathery floral · Feminine
Osmanthus blossoms pressed between the pages of a suede-bound book.
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Animalic narcotic floral, hay · Gender-neutral
Narcissus flowering under a hay loft in March.
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Inky metallic aldehydic · Gender-neutral
The ribbon of an old typewriter: oily black ink, warm metal keys, a fresh sheet of paper and the clean, soapy air of an office in 1960.
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Fruity animalic · Gender-neutral
A fox stealing raspberries.
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Fruity pipe tobacco, smoky · Masculine
An old man's pipe smoke drifting through an autumn orchard: aromatic cherry-plum pipe tobacco, acrid smoke, bruised apples underfoot and damp leaves.
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Tarry floral · Gender-neutral
A peony thrown onto hot summer asphalt just after rain: watery pink rose-peony petals against tar, rubber and the smell of a wet road.
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Metallic rain, vetiver · Masculine
Rain on an iron bridge: cold metal and rust, wet stone, ozone and a rain-darkened vetiver.
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Woody floral, resinous · Masculine
A cello resting in an empty concert hall: rosy, linalool-rich wood, fresh violin varnish, rosin, maple and the felt of its case.
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Metallic iris, ambergris · Gender-neutral
An ingot of silver beside a lump of ambergris.
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Animalic dark wood · Gender-neutral
The collection’s flagship.
The collection by family
Every perfume, grouped by its main family. The intended wearer is a positioning, not a rule — anyone may wear any of them.
Citrus
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Citrus aromatic · Gender-neutral
Lemon peel on a clean sheet of paper: the satisfaction of an empty desk at nine in the morning.
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Bitter citrus, marine · Masculine
An early-morning ferry crossing: bitter orange peel and petitgrain leaves, cold juniper, wet salt and the tarred rope coiled on deck.
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Bitter citrus, peppery · Masculine
The bitter white pith of a grapefruit, cracked black pepper and the dry vetiver of a pressed shirt collar.
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Citrus gourmand · Gender-neutral
A sherbet lemon fizzing on the tongue at a summer fair.
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Citrus floral · Feminine
Blue-and-white tiles in a southern courtyard, a bowl of mandarins and orange blossom climbing the wall.
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Green citrus, vegetal · Gender-neutral
A lime crushed in the hand together with a basil leaf and a slice of cucumber.
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Fizzy orange, creamy · Gender-neutral
An orange soda at the end of a beach day: fizzy orange, sweet juice, a spoon of vanilla cream and warm skin.
Aromatic
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Icy aromatic, mineral · Masculine
A glass bottle pulled out of crushed ice: frozen mint, sage and juniper, grapefruit and lime, and a mineral-ozone chill.
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Gin botanicals, incense · Masculine
A glass of gin carried into a cold stone chapel.
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Smoky herbal amber · Gender-neutral
A bundle of sage smouldering in a cold room.
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Mediterranean herbs · Masculine
Wild thyme on a limestone cliff above the sea.
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Anisic, inky, powdery · Gender-neutral · RUŌOD House Creation
A fountain pen filled with liquorice-black ink.
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Floral lavender, powdery · Feminine
Lavender folded into a silk scarf.
Fougère
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Modern aromatic fougère · Masculine
The fougère skeleton — lavender, geranium, coumarin, moss — rebuilt for daylight: Evernyl-type moss instead of oakmoss, ambroxan instead of heavy musks, and a crisp apple-verdox note to make it feel current.
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Barbershop fougère · Masculine
A hot-towel shave: steam, lavender shaving soap, a cold splash of mint and sweet tonka powder.
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Dark tobacco fougère · Masculine
The fougère after dark.
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Green fern fougère · Gender-neutral
Walking through bracken by moonlight.
Green
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Green chypre · Feminine
A stone courtyard in early spring: sharp galbanum and hyacinth stems, cold flagstones, a little iris, and moss in the cracks.
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Fig leaf, milky · Gender-neutral
Lying in the shade under a fig tree in August: bruised leaves, the milky sap from a broken stem, a split ripe fig and dry earth.
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Vegetal green, abstract · Gender-neutral · RUŌOD House Creation
A theory of green.
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Green floral, hyacinth · Feminine
A florist's bench at seven in the morning: scissors through hyacinth and tulip stems, green water in the buckets, petals not yet open.
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Green tea-hay, aromatic · Masculine
A field of yerba mate drying in the sun: roasted green leaf, hay, a smoky tobacco edge, citrus peel and dry grass.
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Green woody, mossy · Masculine
An ivy-covered wall of an old college: glossy, bitter ivy leaves, damp brick, moss in the mortar and cold stone — with a faint pipe smoke from an open window.
Aquatic
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Marine, papery, woody · Gender-neutral · RUŌOD House Creation
An old seaside library at low tide: foxed paper and cracked leather bindings, ink, and the smell of seaweed and wet salt drifting in through an open window.
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Bright marine, fruity · Gender-neutral
Sunlight through shallow water over a reef: clear marine notes, flashes of tropical fruit, cool watery flowers and a sun-warmed skin musk.
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Marine woody, tarry · Masculine
A hemp mooring rope drying on a granite quay: salty wet fibre, a coat of tar, seaweed and cold stone.
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Clean linen, rain · Gender-neutral
White linen hung out to dry just as the rain begins.
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Mineral marine floral · Feminine
The inside of an oyster shell.
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Metallic rain, vetiver · Masculine · RUŌOD House Creation
Rain on an iron bridge: cold metal and rust, wet stone, ozone and a rain-darkened vetiver.
Floral
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Metallic rose, woody · Gender-neutral · RUŌOD House Creation
A rose drawn in pencil.
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Fresh floral fruity · Feminine
A short, happy message: peony petals still wet from the florist's bucket, a bite of pink apple and clean cotton musk.
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Animalic white floral, smoky · Gender-neutral · RUŌOD House Creation
Jasmine flowering on the wall of a foundry at night.
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Violet, ozonic · Feminine
Violets in an electric storm.
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Solar white floral, salty · Feminine
A rock ledge above the sea where frangipani grows out of the stone.
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Cold white floral · Gender-neutral
Tuberose in a fluorescent-lit corridor at 2 a.m.
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Honeyed linden · Feminine
An old garden in June: linden trees humming with bees, warm honey, cut hay drying on the path, a cup of lime-blossom tea on the table.
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Spicy carnation, leathery · Gender-neutral
A red carnation in the buttonhole of a mechanic's coat.
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Clean white floral, powdery · Feminine
Orange blossom drawn in white chalk.
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Citrus floral, tea · Feminine
Mapping a magnolia tree in early spring: lemony magnolia petals, green-tea leaves, crisp citrus and a pale woody musk.
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Leathery floral · Feminine · RUŌOD House Creation
Osmanthus blossoms pressed between the pages of a suede-bound book.
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Animalic narcotic floral, hay · Gender-neutral · RUŌOD House Creation
Narcissus flowering under a hay loft in March.
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Creamy white floral · Feminine
A gardenia floating in a bowl of milk.
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Tropical floral, rain · Masculine
Sheltering from a tropical downpour under an ylang tree: banana-creamy flowers, wet green leaves, rain drumming on a tin roof and cool vetiver.
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Lily of the valley · Feminine
Lily of the valley under a glass bell jar — built without Lilial or Lyral.
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Tea floral, fruity · Gender-neutral
An afternoon tea room in the hills: champaca flowers on the table, a pot of black tea with an apricot nose, fruit on a plate and polished teak furniture.
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Woody floral, resinous · Masculine · RUŌOD House Creation
A cello resting in an empty concert hall: rosy, linalool-rich wood, fresh violin varnish, rosin, maple and the felt of its case.
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Neroli, marine woody · Masculine
A brass compass on a ship's chart, a sprig of orange blossom in the captain's buttonhole.
Fruity
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Rhubarb, mineral · Gender-neutral
Rhubarb stalks laid on wet quarry slate.
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Melon, aquatic · Gender-neutral
A slice of honeydew taken from a cooler at a summer festival: juicy melon, cucumber skin, a leaf of mint and cool clean musk.
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Tropical fruit, rain · Gender-neutral
Monsoon rain over a guava orchard: pink guava and passion fruit, wet green leaves and warm rain on earth.
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Cassis rose · Feminine
Blackcurrant leaves crushed against a rose bush.
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Juicy pear, musky · Feminine
A ripe pear held up to lamplight.
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Fermented fruit, woody · Masculine
A cider cellar in autumn: bruised apples, fermenting must, oak barrels and a little cinnamon on the cellar steps.
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Dark cherry, resinous · Feminine · RUŌOD House Creation
A black-cherry lacquered chest.
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Velvety apricot, powdery · Feminine
Dried apricots in a paper bag on a dusty sideboard.
Powdery
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Iris, mineral · Gender-neutral
Iris under a low grey sky.
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Powdery floral · Feminine
Mimosa sprigs in a February window, with a cold draft coming through: powdery yellow pollen, almond-heliotrope, violet and the green of the cut stems.
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Woody violet, milky · Feminine
Closing the lid of a velvet-lined jewellery box.
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Rice powder, iris · Feminine
Rice powder in a lacquered compact.
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Metallic iris, ambergris · Gender-neutral · RUŌOD House Creation
An ingot of silver beside a lump of ambergris.
Aldehydic
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Aldehydic floral · Feminine
Sunday best.
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Inky metallic aldehydic · Gender-neutral · RUŌOD House Creation
The ribbon of an old typewriter: oily black ink, warm metal keys, a fresh sheet of paper and the clean, soapy air of an office in 1960.
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Sparkling aldehydic · Gender-neutral
The first glass of champagne at a party: fizzing aldehydes and white grape, a little brioche yeast, white flowers and a clean, cold musk.
Chypre
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Fruity chypre · Feminine
Velvet curtains drawn at dusk: dark plum skin and osmanthus over the old chypre bones of bergamot, patchouli, labdanum and moss.
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Forest chypre · Gender-neutral
A cathedral of fir trees with moss underfoot.
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Fruity leather chypre · Feminine
A records room painted ochre, warm with afternoon light.
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Leather chypre, citrus · Masculine
A bridle of oiled leather hung on a stable door beside a bitter-orange tree.
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Floral chypre, aldehydic · Feminine
A rose chypre from a dressing table of the 1970s, rebuilt within today's constraints: aldehydes and bergamot, a full rose and jasmine, oakmoss, patchouli and labdanum.
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Gourmand chypre · Gender-neutral
Dark chocolate grated over the forest floor.
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Mineral chypre · Feminine
A modern chypre cut from slate.
Woody
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Cedar, fruity · Gender-neutral
Sharpening a pencil in an apple orchard: fresh cedar shavings, crisp green apple and the dry graphite-iris dust of the sharpener.
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Wet woods, earthy · Gender-neutral
A woodland after a downpour: soaked bark, exposed vetiver roots, crushed leaves and mushroom earth.
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Creamy sandalwood · Feminine
A message written in milk on a sandalwood board.
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Transparent oud · Gender-neutral · RUŌOD House Creation
A paper lantern lit inside an agarwood grove.
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Earthy patchouli, roasted · Gender-neutral
Cold-brew coffee drunk from a patchouli-wood cup.
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Aromatic coniferous woods · Gender-neutral
A wooden bathhouse in winter: steaming cypress and cedar-leaf boards, yuzu floating on the water, wet stones and clean skin.
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Dry marine woods · Gender-neutral
A piece of driftwood bleached white by sun and salt.
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Pale smoke, milky woods · Gender-neutral · RUŌOD House Creation
A birch forest in snow, and the ghost of a wood fire somewhere far off.
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Smoky rose woods · Feminine
A rose dried over a wood fire.
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Polished woods, leather · Masculine
A private library panelled in mahogany: polished dark wood, leather chairs, old paper, a cold pipe on the desk and a decanter of brandy.
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Resinous smoky conifers · Masculine
A sauna by a frozen lake: pine-tar soap, hot resinous benches, eucalyptus thrown on the stones — then the cold plunge.
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Animalic dark wood · Gender-neutral · RUŌOD House Creation
The collection’s flagship.
Amber
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Marine amber · Gender-neutral · RUŌOD House Creation
A ship's lantern on a cold quay: warm beeswax and amber glowing inside a cage of salt air.
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Tea amber · Gender-neutral
Black tea poured beside an amber fire.
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Classic balsamic amber · Feminine
A classic amber in full evening dress: labdanum, benzoin, tolu, myrrh, opoponax and vanilla, laid over a quiet floral heart of rose and orris.
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Fizzy gourmand amber · Gender-neutral
A glass of cola over ice at golden hour.
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Transparent white amber · Feminine
Amber light on fresh snow.
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Honeyed animalic amber · Gender-neutral · RUŌOD House Creation
An old oak throne rubbed with beeswax and honey for centuries: golden wax, honey's animal sweetness, labdanum, immortelle and dark polished oak.
Spicy
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Saffron leather · Gender-neutral · RUŌOD House Creation
A red lacquered box lined with leather.
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Fresh spicy, ozonic · Masculine
The first lightning of a summer storm: zesty fresh ginger and yuzu crackle with ozone over a bitter grapefruit pith and wet vetiver.
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Rosy spice, powdery · Feminine
Pink peppercorns crushed on a schoolroom chalkboard.
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Fresh pepper, marine · Masculine
Black pepper ground over a sail cracking in the wind.
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Cold spice, milky · Feminine
Nutmeg grated over hot milk on a snowy night.
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Spiced amber · Gender-neutral
A desert spice market at dusk: sacks of coriander and cardamom, dried dates and apricots, saffron, warm sand — and frankincense smoke drifting out of a doorway.
Incense
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Citrus incense · Gender-neutral · RUŌOD House Creation
Incense burning in a sunlit room with a bowl of oranges on the table.
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Cold church incense · Gender-neutral
A Romanesque nave in winter: cold limestone, candles just snuffed out, frankincense ground into the floor over centuries.
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Sweet resinous incense · Masculine
A lantern of myrrh resin burning in a dark chapel: bitter-sweet, medicinal myrrh, opoponax honey, a thread of liquorice and dried rose.
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Milky incense · Masculine
A monastery kitchen at dawn: a pan of milk warming on the stove beside the ashes of last night's incense.
Leather
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Green leather, metallic · Gender-neutral · RUŌOD House Creation
The copper-green patina on the brass fittings of an old saddle.
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Animalic leather · Masculine
A black saddle being polished in a dark stable: castoreum and birch-tar leather, the warmth of the horse, hay and labdanum resin.
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Soft suede, powdery · Feminine
A pale suede glove that smells of the hand inside it.
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Tarry floral · Gender-neutral · RUŌOD House Creation
A peony thrown onto hot summer asphalt just after rain: watery pink rose-peony petals against tar, rubber and the smell of a wet road.
Tobacco
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Honeyed tobacco · Masculine
Tobacco leaves hanging in a curing barn: honeyed hay, dried apricot, the barn's old wood and a faint smoke from the fire.
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Fruity pipe tobacco, smoky · Masculine · RUŌOD House Creation
An old man's pipe smoke drifting through an autumn orchard: aromatic cherry-plum pipe tobacco, acrid smoke, bruised apples underfoot and damp leaves.
Animalic
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Animalic orange blossom · Feminine · RUŌOD House Creation
Orange blossom picked at dusk and carried into a fox's den.
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Skin animalic, spiced · Gender-neutral · RUŌOD House Creation
The warmth of skin after dancing.
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Fruity animalic · Gender-neutral · RUŌOD House Creation
A fox stealing raspberries.
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Classic animal musk · Feminine
A classic animal musk in the old manner, rebuilt with present-day materials: civet and civetone, the macrocyclic ketones muscone, exaltone, isomuscone and muscenone, with labdanum, rose and powdery orris — a cartouche of warm skin and fur.
Musk
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Skin musk · Gender-neutral
The smell of clean skin under a cotton shirt, and nothing more.
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Lactonic mineral musk · Gender-neutral
Coconut milk spilled on sun-hot concrete.
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Natural-feeling musk · Feminine
Ambrette seed's warm, winey, pear-skin musk, with a halo of iris and a drop of white cognac.
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Woolly cashmere musk · Gender-neutral
A grey wool scarf breathed into on a foggy morning.
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Minimal tea musk · Gender-neutral
A white-tea ceremony in an empty room: tea barely brewed, steam from the kettle, a bamboo whisk and silence.
Gourmand
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Salted caramel, roasted · Gender-neutral
Popcorn at an open-air cinema: roasted corn and butter, salted caramel, warm vanilla — and the cool night air around it, given by a clean musk and a mineral salt.
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Smoky nutty gourmand · Gender-neutral
Hazelnut praline left in a cast-iron pan until it smokes.
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Spiced coffee · Gender-neutral
Coffee brewed with cardamom and poured into frothed milk.
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Smoky maple · Gender-neutral
A sugar shack on a foggy autumn morning: maple sap boiling, wood smoke from the fire, wet fallen leaves and the curry-warm sweetness of fenugreek.
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Spiced bakery · Gender-neutral
Opening the biscuit tin in December: ginger biscuits, brown sugar, butter, a little cinnamon, clove and nutmeg, almond and vanilla.
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Boozy woody · Masculine
A cabinet of aged dark rum: molasses, raisins, the inside of an oak barrel, a tobacco leaf and a cracked cinnamon stick.
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Fruity bakery · Gender-neutral
A warm brioche split open with fig jam: buttery, yeasty bread, dark jammy fig, a little honey and orange zest.
RUŌOD House Accords
The house's building blocks, written for the collection. Each is its own 1,000-part accord, and each perfume page names the accords expanded inside it.
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A01 · 14 ingredients · in 2 perfumes
Gives a floral heart a cool struck-stone, petal-on-rock edge.
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A02 · 12 ingredients · in 1 perfume
A metallic, transparent rose for modern or cold compositions.
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A03 · 14 ingredients · in 3 perfumes
Rain-soaked wood and forest floor for woody and green structures.
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A04 · 14 ingredients · in 1 perfume
Warm skin and sea air: a musky-mineral second skin.
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A05 · 15 ingredients · in 1 perfume
Dark green leather: crushed stems against tanned hide.
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A06 · 16 ingredients · in 1 perfume
Dry smoked tea over amber: warmth without sugar.
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A07 · 15 ingredients · in 1 perfume
Frozen aromatic herbs: cold mint, sage and juniper.
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A08 · 14 ingredients · in 1 perfume
Creamy violet woods for powdery and woody hearts.
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A09 · 14 ingredients · in 1 perfume
Incense lit with sparkling fruit and pepper.
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A10 · 15 ingredients · in 1 perfume
Salty tropical flowers: frangipani and ylang with sea air.
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A11 · 13 ingredients · in 1 perfume
An animalic white floral: jasmine with its wild side left in.
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A12 · 14 ingredients · in 1 perfume
Caramel taken a little too far: sugar and smoke.
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A13 · 17 ingredients · in 8 perfumes
The smell of stone and earth when rain begins.
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A14 · 16 ingredients · in 4 perfumes
White paper and pale ink: an aldehydic-powdery dryness.
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