TheMaison
One room, one perfumer, six fragrances and a batch size small enough to smell every one of them.
We started because the good stuff was imported.
India grows sandalwood, vetiver and jasmine sambac, and for a long time the best of it was shipped out, blended in Grasse and sold back at four times the price. Vaylara started as an argument with that.
The first formula took two years. Not because the composition was difficult, but because we were learning which local suppliers were consistent from harvest to harvest, and which were not.
How a bottle gets made
Weighing
Materials are weighed to 0.01 g against a written formula. Nothing is dosed by eye, including the naturals.
One day
Maceration
The concentrate rests in steel, in the dark, between six and twelve weeks depending on how much resin is in the base.
Six to twelve weeks
Filtration and filling
Chilled, filtered twice, then filled and sealed by hand. The batch number on the box is the batch you have.
Two days
What we will not do
No limited editions that are the same juice in a different box. No "inspired by" formulas. No animal-derived materials — the castoreum and ambergris in the library are both synthetic, and the page says so.
When a material becomes restricted we reformulate and publish what changed, with the batch number where the change takes effect.