Rosette Nebula

Ten roses, one of them distilled in the 1990s.

Opulent red rose, and boisterous with it. Bulgarian and Taif ottos come from the 2025 and 2026 harvests, and the nineties otto reads darker and drier beside them. Ten rose materials in all, chosen carefully and pulled from across the globe and from across time, brighter and juicier and much more red than the house has run a rose before. JCB01 is the code it was built under.

The oud is wild rather than farmed, incense grade, Indonesian, out of Riau province in the Natuna Islands, and a rare co-distillation of two Aquilaria species, Mallaccensis and Beccariana, drawn off the trees together rather than blended afterwards.

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.