Parfum / Florals / Salad Days
Salad Days
Gardenia, mimosa, jasmine, cedar, vetiver. Fresh, balanced, timeless.
Fragrance Notes: Gardenia, mimosa, jasmine + pepper, musk, cedar, vetiver.
Salad Days is gardenia reimagined. The flower appears in its full beauty, luminous and commanding, balanced with mimosa and jasmine to create a floral that is radiant without excess. Cedar and vetiver steady the composition, adding structure and restraint, while pepper and musk add texture and depth.
What results is not a traditional gardenia but a modern one — still lush, still beautiful, but sharpened, balanced, and ready to be worn from morning into night. It is fresh yet layered, light yet commanding, floral but never delicate.
Salad Days is a study in tension. It takes something familiar and turns it into something new, a floral built for those who appreciate tradition but live for reinvention. A fragrance that feels natural on the skin, bright enough for day, sensual enough for night, and complex enough to remain unforgettable.
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
Pink pepper and saffron over a burst of white flowers.
20 minutes
Gardenia, mimosa and jasmine open fully.
2 hours
Cedar and vetiver steady the flowers, with a creamy edge.
6 hours +
Dark wood, amber and musk.
The composition
Pink pepper, saffron
Gardenia, mimosa, jasmine sambac, ylang-ylang
Vetiver, cedar, dark wood, amber, 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
Gardenia, mimosa and jasmine, all at full volume. Pink pepper and saffron keep the opening from getting too sweet. Cedar and vetiver dry it down so the flowers never feel heavy.
Richard RochonFounder & perfumer
Wear it with
Salad Days with Ride with Icarus
Spiced vanilla gives the gardenia warmth for evening.
Richard, on layering
Salad Days
