Damfool Hó (Elder River) Elixir de Parfum

There used to be a river behind the old house—back then, everyone called it *the river. Now? Just a stream. A quiet, narrow thing, barely wider than a path.

Top: Galbanum, Nutmeg, Dry Moss
Middle: Aldehyde, Rose, Cattail
Base: Iris, Saffron

When I was a kid, we’d race down there barefoot after lunch. Water would rush up to my knees—cold enough to steal your breath, clear enough to see every pebble and wriggling tadpole. It smelled like wet mud and rotting waterweed—sharp, sour, alive. I loved it. Dove in. Scooped up frogs. Got scolded for coming home soaked and stinking.  

This time, I stood at the bank and looked down. Water lapped just over my shoe soles—barely a whisper against the rubber. Still crystal clear. Still cold. But no tadpoles. No frogs. No smell at all—not even earthy, not even green. Just... clean silence.  

Yeah. That river didn’t shrink. It aged. Like a person who stops talking, stops moving fast, stops being *loudly* alive, and you only notice how much it’s changed when you stand there, remembering the splash.

Note: Damfool samples are approximately 1mL in partially-filled vials.

Damfool Perfume, builds it's world the way a game designer builds a cast: each creation is written as its own NPC, with a backstory, role, and emotional script rather than as a generic “main character.” His work isn’t about a single signature; it’s about a whole ensemble of quiet protagonists—altar-keepers, aunties, street-stall ghosts, migrating cousins—each bottle behaving like a side character you meet in a different scene of the same universe.

When you move through the Damfool line, you’re not choosing status or center stage so much as deciding which NPC you want walking beside you that day, carrying their habits, memories, and stories into your story.

Damfool is artisanal house, keeping as much work as possible at his own bench rather than outsourcing formula building. Instead of leaning only on ready-made bases, he spends time crafting components and tinctures himself, especially from harder-to-find or specific raw materials that carry real texture and history. That slow, hands-on approach means each idea is built from the ground up: unusual extractions, rare ingredients, and temple-adjacent materials turned into liquids that feel lived-in rather than generic.