Monoceros

An oil that can likely never be reproduced.

Merauke kinam, with a gram of it in every bottle. Years of refinement, orbiting two worlds, Japanese minimalism and the French-Arabia of the mid 90s. Twenty-two bottles exist, and only two of them per shop.

White Rosa alba, twice, as an otto and as an absolute, with lily of the valley, honeycomb and saffron above and iris beside. Under all of it, the kinam, a Mysore santal from the 1990s and vintage Kashmiri deer musk.

JINX is an artisan house working out of a refurbished restaurant in Canandaigua, in the Finger Lakes region of central New York State. Arthur Clayton Emrick runs it, mostly self-taught, with a love of chemistry forged through beer and wine making and the culinary arts. The inspiration is Michigan, an extremely rural part of it, and the wild flowers and deep woods of a childhood there. The work is oud-centric and animalic, built on high-quality natural materials used in quantity.

Many of the JINX fragrances are entirely natural and many are not. Synthetic materials, where they are used, are named rather than left out. US houses are not bound by IFRA, and JINX complies with it anyway wherever synthetics appear. Natural animal musks appear in several of the releases. Materials are named specifically. A sandalwood by its year, an oud by where it came from.