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Ride with Icarus
This is not a typical vanilla. Spiced with tonka, cedar, and black pepper, it is bold, dark, complex.
Fragrance Notes: Vanilla, cinnamon, tonka + sandalwood, vetiver.
This is not a typical vanilla. Ride with Icarus opens bold and spiced, built from tonka, cedar, black pepper, and cinnamon. From the start, it is layered and strong, carrying a dark undertone that adds depth and sensuality.
Unlike the sweet vanillas you expect, this one evolves. It opens in heat and spice, then deepens into wood and smoke, revealing new facets over time. It is refined without softness, powerful without excess.
Ride with Icarus is vanilla unbound, structured as architecture, alive as flame. It is a fragrance that feels both modern and timeless, built for those who resist the ordinary and know that complexity is where beauty lives.
The highest concentration we make. Dense, slow to open, and built to keep changing for eight to ten hours on skin.
Details
How to wear it
Two sprays at the base of the throat, one on each wrist. Don't rub. It shears the top notes off.
Parfum builds over the first twenty minutes. Give it that long before you decide.
Ingredients
Alcohol denat., parfum (fragrance), aqua.
Shipping
Ships within two business days. Free U.S. shipping over $34.
Batch & provenance
Every bottle carries a batch ID on the base. A 2 ml retention sample from each batch is archived in the studio.
Samples and returns
Every full size bottle ships with a sample so you can try the scent before opening the bottle.
Full size bottles can be returned within 30 days of delivery if they are unopened, unused, and in resellable condition.
Samples and discovery sets are not returnable. Instead you get its price back as credit toward a full size bottle, one credit per order. A code is issued with your order. It never expires and applies only to full size bottles, not to samples or discovery sets. One credit per customer, and codes are not transferable.
Marie Claire named it a dark rose steeped in oud, leather and black pepper. Their pick for Sagittarius season.
Marie Claire · Winter fragrance edit
On skin
What you'll smell, and when
First spray
Black pepper and cinnamon over warm vanilla.
20 minutes
Vanilla and tonka come forward, still spiced.
2 hours
Woods rise under the vanilla.
6 hours +
Dry woods and resin with a trace of vanilla.
The composition
Black pepper, cinnamon
Rose, vanilla, tonka
Sandalwood, vetiver, cedar, oakmoss, labdanum, patchouli, musk
How it performs
Parfum concentration builds on skin over the first twenty minutes. Give it that long before you decide.
From the perfumer
Why this one exists
Vanilla and tonka do most of the work here, but black pepper and cinnamon keep them from turning into dessert. As it wears, sandalwood, vetiver and cedar come through. Warm, not sweet.
Richard RochonFounder & perfumer
Wear it with
Ride with Icarus with Salad Days
Gardenia and jasmine lift the vanilla and keep it bright.
Richard, on layering
Ride with Icarus
