Journal — AUBADE

Journal

On ingredients, the people who grow them, and how to get the most out of a bottle.

Why fig smells green

The fig in our first scent is mostly leaf and sap. Here is how we built it from almost nothing.

Harvest starts at five. By nine the flowers have lost a third of their scent, so everyone works fast.

Less than you think, lower than you think, and never on silk.

Why we print every label on cream cotton paper, and set it in a typeface from 1798.