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Noctis

Provenance

Read theflaconin your hand

Every NOCTIS bottle is etched with a ten-character code -- the same code that appears against that bottle on your order. It resolves to the batch it was filled from, the formula version that batch was made to, every dilution that went into it, and the supplier lot behind every raw material. None of it is reconstructed afterwards; it is written down as the perfume is made, which is the only reason it can be published.

Ten characters, etched in three groups. It begins NX.

No bottle to hand

  • NX-7F42-QK19A house flacon of Cendre Blanche, filled in November 2024 from batch PRD-CDB-2024-00002.
  • NX-3B08-RM74A bespoke flacon, to show what a private composition does and does not publish.

Seven links, in the order it was made

Read from the object in your hand backwards to the field. Most traceability claims stop at the first link and call the second one a supply chain; the interesting part is everything after it, because that is where a material either has a documented origin or does not.

  1. 01FlaconThe individual bottle, etched with its own code.
  2. 02Production batchThe vessel of finished perfume it was filled from.
  3. 03Formula versionThe exact revision that batch was weighed to.
  4. 04Dilution lotPre-diluted materials, each with its own lot and date.
  5. 05Raw material lotOne delivery from one production run, per material.
  6. 06ManufacturerThe distillery, extraction house or synthesis works.
  7. 07SupplierWho we bought from and who held it in between.

Why a house would do this

Fragrance is the last consumer category where the ingredient list is legally allowed to say “parfum” and stop. That exemption exists to protect formulas from being copied, and it is a real concern: a composition is the only thing a perfumer owns. But it has been used for decades to avoid saying anything at all, including the things that have nothing to do with the formula -- where a material came from, who distilled it, whether it was harvested in a way anyone would defend.

The proportions stay ours. The origins do not need to. What is published here is the entire chain of custody minus the percentages, which is exactly as much as can be published without handing the composition to whoever asks for it, and considerably more than the regulation requires.

What this page will not show you

Provenance is not the same as disclosure.

Everything below is published because a customer has a right to know what is on their skin and where it came from. Four categories are held back, and it is worth saying plainly which and why rather than letting you discover the gaps.

Commercial terms
Material costs, supplier pricing, contracted margins and purchase terms are not published. They are commercially sensitive to our suppliers, not only to us.
Bench notes
Working notes, failed batches, rework decisions and quality-control correspondence stay internal. They exist, and an auditor can request them; a public page is not the place for them.
People
No customer is named here, including the one this flacon was filled for. A bespoke flacon shows its composition reference and nothing that could resolve to a person.
Exact formulation
Material names, origins and roles are published. The percentages that make them a formula are not: that is the composition itself, and publishing it would end the house.