SIX FRAGRANCES. ONE QUIET SEASON.
The whole collection, in a size you can test with.
The Slow Hours Discovery Kit brings together all six fragrance oils from the collection in sample size. Designed for evaluation, blending and bench work, it is the fastest way to find which direction suits a range before committing to volume.
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THE COLLECTION
Slow Hours approaches fall through intimacy rather than intensity.
Not the loud, spiced, pumpkin-and-bonfire version of the season, but the quiet one: steeping tea, warm fabric against skin, softened light at the end of the day. The small grounding moments that define autumn when no one else is in the room.
Each oil is built around a ritual rather than an ingredient list. Lactonic textures, gentle aromatics, steam-like diffusion, subtle sweetness that never tips sugary, and clean warmth carried by musks and soft woods.
Everything rounded, everything skin-close, everything felt rather than performed.
A NOTE FROM THE STUDIO
From the Director of Innovation
The six fragrances in Slow Hours were developed as a system rather than as six separate briefs, and the kit is the best way to understand why.
They share a temperature. Put any two of them together and they behave. The collection was calibrated so that Bare Oat softens anything it touches, Soft Structure gives anything a frame, and Slow Steep introduces dryness wherever it is needed.
We would encourage working with them in pairs before deciding on a single direction. Several of the most interesting results in development came from combinations rather than from any one oil on its own.
The kit is also the fastest way to settle an internal debate. Softness is difficult to describe and very easy to recognise.
— The Studio
How to Use It
This collection is built around skin-close performance and most of the six under-read on a blotter.
Each product page lists three suggested combinations, all drawn from within the collection.
Between them they define the two ends of the collection, and everything else sits in relation to them.
Why It's Distinctive
The six were developed together rather than separately, so they blend predictably and extend one another rather than competing.
Sample sizes sufficient for genuine formulation trials across candle, body and fine fragrance applications.
Six directions in one order, which is considerably quicker and less expensive than sampling individually.
IMPORTANT: All New Directions Aromatics (NDA) products are for external use only unless otherwise indicated. This information is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease, and it should not be used by anyone who is pregnant or under the care of a medical practitioner. Please refer to our policies for further details, and our disclaimer below.
