Powdery woods · since 2019
Orris & Ash
Cold root over a fire that has gone out.
£145
50 ml eau de parfum, 18% 4.9 (640)The house fragrance. Six-year orris over bergamot and pepper, settling into oakmoss and a dry thread of frankincense. Quiet on the skin, long on a scarf.
In stock — dispatched Tuesday and Friday
Not sure yet? Try it in the discovery set for £22 — credited against this bottle.
- £22 back on your first bottle. The discovery set comes with a code for its full price, good for a year.
- Refills at £96. Return an empty 50 ml bottle and pay a third less for the same fragrance.
- Free UK delivery. Dispatched Tuesday and Friday in a recyclable, signed-for parcel.
- 30-day returns. Unopened bottles back within a month, no questions asked.
Details
- Concentration
- 18% eau de parfum
- On skin
- 8–10 hours on skin
- Bottle
- Refillable glass, batch number on the tag
- Ingredients
- Full list printed on the box, IFRA-compliant, vegan
Delivery and returns
Dispatched Tuesday and Friday. Free UK delivery; Europe £12, rest of the world £24. Unopened bottles can be returned within 30 days.
Refills
Send back an empty Orrishaw bottle and we refill it from the current batch, re-seal it and post it home. A 50 ml refill is £96. How refills work.
How it wears
How does it wear over a day?
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Top
First 30 minutes
- Bergamot
- Black pepper
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Heart
The next few hours
- Orris
- Rose absolute
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Base
What stays
- Oakmoss
- Frankincense
About Orris & Ash
Orris & Ash is the fragrance everything else on the bench is measured against. It opens sharp — bergamot and a pinch of black pepper — and within half an hour the orris takes over: cool, powdery, a little like violets and a little like clean earth.
The orris is Tuscan iris root, dried for six years before it is worth distilling. That is why it costs what it does and why we make this fragrance in small batches four times a year rather than all at once.
By the afternoon it has dried down to oakmoss and frankincense, close to the skin. Most people stop noticing it themselves around then, which is exactly when other people start to.
“Orris & Ash is the first fragrance people have asked me about in years. Quiet, but it is still there on my scarf the next morning.”
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