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Oakmoss carried on bergamot, dried over Haitian vetiver. Reformulated 2021, tested at 1,795 m.
Read the formulaKSh 18,500 · 50 ML · 7 IN STOCK
Add to bagOakmoss · Bergamot · Vetiver
Chypre KSh 18,500Rose · Peony · White Musk
Floral KSh 16,800Sea Salt · Sage · Ambrette
Aromatic KSh 14,200Oud · Saffron · Leather
Woody oriental KSh 24,900Frangipani · Coconut Husk · Sea Salt
Solar floral KSh 15,600Sandalwood · Amber · Vanilla
Home KSh 11,000Oakmoss · Bergamot · Vetiver
Rose · Peony · White Musk
Sea Salt · Sage · Ambrette
Oud · Saffron · Leather
The opening you smell in the shop. Citrus, aldehydes, crushed herbs — bright, volatile, gone before you reach the car park.
0–20 minutesThe perfumer's actual argument: rose, jasmine, iris, spice. This is the accord colleagues will learn to recognise as yours.
20 minutes – 3 hoursHeavy molecules that hold to skin and cotton — oud, amber, musk, vetiver. Nairobi's dry heat lifts these early and stretches them roughly a third longer than the label promises.
3 – 12 hoursCambodian oud cut with saffron and a dry leather base. Twelve bottles reached Nairobi this quarter; four remain. Batch photographed on receipt.
Thin, dry air at 1,795 metres burns through top notes faster than the climate these fragrances were built for. Here is how to compensate — and the four bottles that never need it.
Four checks that take under a minute at any counter.
Why the least complicated bottle in the vault outsells the rest.
ScentVault began in 2019 with forty bottles in a Westlands flat and one rule we still keep: nothing is listed until it has been received, weighed against its batch and photographed under the same lamp.
We publish what we know — reformulation years, batch codes, how a fragrance actually behaves in 41% humidity. If a bottle is wrong, it goes back at our cost.
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