FOUNDRY №8 IS A MAISON DE HAUTE PARFUMERIE BUILT LIKE A FOUNDRY — ONE NOSE IN RESIDENCE, A VAULT OF MATERIALS CHOSEN GRAM BY GRAM, AND THE CONVICTION THAT A GREAT SCENT SHOULD BE POURED DENSE, LASTING AND TRUE — NEVER DILUTED INTO SOMETHING FORGETTABLE, NEVER BUILT FOR A SINGLE SEASON.
THE MAISON WAS BORN ON A CASTING FLOOR — BESIDE LADLE №8, LAST OF ITS LINE. WHEN THE OLD WORKS POURED THEIR FINAL HEAT, THE FOUNDER KEPT THE NUMBER, THE DISCIPLINE AND ONE COOLING CRUCIBLE. EVERYTHING WE MAKE STILL ANSWERS TO THAT FLOOR.
MOST OF WHAT IS MADE TODAY IS MADE TO BE REPLACED — CHEAP, EPHEMERAL, CHANGING WITH EVERY SEASON, DISPOSABLE BY DESIGN. WE DECLINE.
A FORGE'S TOOLS WERE BUILT FOR SEVERAL LIFETIMES AND PASSED FROM ONE GENERATION TO THE NEXT. A PERFUME TRANSCENDED ITS GENERATION AND LASTED. FASHIONABLE MEANT TIMELESS. FOUNDRY №8 EXISTS TO MAKE SUCH THINGS AGAIN — LONG-LASTING, AGELESS, CLASSIC, ICONIC.
“Fashionable was timeless. Here, it still is.”
THE STANDING ORDER OF THE FOUNDRY
One nose. In residence.
MOST HOUSES RENT THEIR PERFUMERS FROM THE GREAT AROMA CONGLOMERATES — A BRIEF GOES OUT, A FORMULA COMES BACK, A NAME GOES ON THE BOX. FOUNDRY №8 KEEPS ITS MASTER PERFUMER IN-HOUSE: AT THE ORGAN, AT THE CRUCIBLE, AT THE VATS — FROM FIRST ASSAY TO FINAL SEAL.
EVERY CASTING — PERSONAL EXTRAIT, AMBIENT ESSENCE OR LIVING FLAME — PASSES THROUGH ONE NOSE AND ANSWERS TO ONE STANDARD. NOTHING LEAVES THE FOUNDRY THE NOSE WOULD NOT WEAR.
“A fragrance signed by many hands belongs to no one.”
THE NOSE OF №8
LUXURY, UNDILUTED
NO SHORTCUT SURVIVES THE ASSAY. LUXURY IS SIMPLY WHAT REMAINS WHEN EVERY CORNER REFUSES TO BE CUT.
CAST BY HAND
FILLED, SEALED AND NUMBERED BY HAND IN MILANO. NO EDITION EXCEEDS EIGHT HUNDRED — WHEN A CASTING SELLS THROUGH, THE MOULD IS BROKEN.
POURED TO LAST
EXTRAIT CONCENTRATIONS ON FIXATIVE-RICH BASES. OUR CASTINGS OUTLAST THE EVENING, THE COAT — AND, KEPT SEALED, THE DECADE. FORGE-WORK IS BUILT FOR LIFETIMES.
RICH BY DESIGN
DENSE, LAYERED ACCORDS THAT KEEP UNFOLDING FOR HOURS. RICHNESS HERE IS NOT AN EFFECT — IT IS THE STRUCTURE.
Materials before marketing.
A FORMULA IS ONLY AS HONEST AS ITS RAREST GRAM. WE WORK WITH THE FEW SUPPLIERS THE GREAT HOUSES GUARD JEALOUSLY — FIRST REFUSAL ON SINGLE HARVESTS, DAWN-PICKED FLOWERS, WILD WOODS — AND WHEN A LOT DISAPPOINTS, WE WAIT A SEASON RATHER THAN POUR IT.
RARE, COSTLY, HAND-PICKED AND NOSE-SELECTED: EVERY MATERIAL THAT ENTERS THE VAULT IS APPROVED BY THE MASTER PERFUMER, GRAM BY GRAM — OR RETURNED TO ITS SUPPLIER WITH OUR REGRETS.
“If a finer grade exists anywhere, we buy it. What we cannot improve, we do not release. Our formulas are — without qualification — the highest quality we know how to pour, and we know of none higher.”
THE FOUNDER'S ASSAY — SIGNED INTO EVERY EDITION
A room that remembers you.
FOR HOTELS, HOUSES OF RETAIL, RESTAURANTS AND ATELIERS: OUR AMBIENT CASTINGS ARE PROFESSIONAL ESSENCES, COMPOSED TO EVOKE PRECISE SENSATIONS IN YOUR CUSTOMERS — EMOTION THAT ATTACHES ITSELF TO YOUR BRAND AND YOUR PRODUCT, AND OUTLIVES THE VISIT.
MEMORABLE, SIGNATURE ESSENCES SPANNING THE ENTIRE OLFACTORY SPECTRUM — COLD CITRUS TO SMOKED AMBER — DESIGNED IN-HOUSE BY THE OLFACTORY ATELIER AND POURED THROUGH FORNAX, OUR COLD-NEBULIZATION INSTRUMENT.
A VERY SMALL LINE FOR THOSE WHO WANT ONLY NATURALS. NO SYNTHETIC MOLECULE, NO EXCEPTIONS — ONLY ESSENCES THAT FIRST LIVED AS FLOWER, ROOT, RESIN OR WOOD. SMALLER CASTINGS, QUIETER SILLAGE, A SHORTER LIST OF PROMISES — EVERY ONE OF THEM KEPT.