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Start with grapefruit and lemon slicing through ethereal ozone — the clean shock of altitude.
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Then linden blossom and fresh linen, Turkish rose absolute and orris root: a heart that floats between heaven and laundry day.
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The base brings you back to Earth — but richer earth: Indonesian patchouli, saffron, sandalwood, and a soil accord that smells like where sacred things are planted.
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Wear this when you want to be both grounded and gone.
Parfums Quartana creates rare, provocative fragrances for transformation and seduction — each a key to becoming.
Some reconnect you with ancient vitality. Others initiate through forbidden beauty. All demand something from the wearer: presence, courage, the willingness to be more than decoration.
Our ethos is simple: we won't release a fragrance until we feel it can't be further improved. We call them "Slow Perfumes" — unhurried, uncompromising, released only when ready.
— Joseph Quartana, Founder
We create rare, provocative fragrances for transformation and seduction — each a key to becoming.
Some reconnect you with ancient vitality. Others initiate through forbidden beauty. All demand something from the wearer: presence, courage, the willingness to be more than decoration.
Our ethos is simple: we won't release a fragrance until we feel it can't be further improved.
We call them "Slow Perfumes" — unhurried, uncompromising, released only when ready.
— Joseph Quartana, Founder
In 2017, Poppy Soma won The Fragrance Foundation's Perfume Extraordinaire of the Year — selected blind from approximately 400 entries, judged by fellow perfumers purely on the merit of the scent.
In 2023, our subsequent release Ierofante won the Art & Olfaction Institute's Independent Category Award — another blind-judged competition, selected from 350 entries worldwide.
Two different competitions. Two blind juries. Six years apart.
No fragrance house in history has ever won consecutive blind-judged international awards.
We are the only one.
In 2017, Poppy Soma won The Fragrance Foundation's Perfume Extraordinaire of the Year — selected blind from approximately 400 entries, judged by fellow perfumers purely on the merit of the scent.
In 2023, our subsequent release Ierofante won the Art & Olfaction Institute's Independent Category Award — another blind-judged competition, selected from 350 entries worldwide.
Two different competitions. Two blind juries. Six years apart.
No fragrance house in history has ever won consecutive blind-judged international awards.
We are the only one.
Uncover all the magic of QUARTANA with our Complete Discovery Set Bundle and get a $60 reimbursement code towards your choice of a 50mL full-size bottle.
Uncover all the magic of QUARTANA with our Complete Discovery Bundle and get a $60 code towards your choice of full-size bottle.
Three Neuro-Scent™ Elixirs crafted with rare naturals from Grasse to awaken your highest self. Inspired by the sacred pharmacopoeias of Egypt, Greece, and Rome — where ancient wisdom meets modern evidence.
Perfumery as applied neuroscience.
Wisdom distilled into essence. Each fragrance unlocks a doorway within — the confidence of sacred knowledge, the poise of those who understand what others merely sense.
Transmogrification — the alchemical shift from one state to another. Earned through knowing.
Wisdom distilled into essence. Each fragrance unlocks a doorway within — the confidence of sacred knowledge, the poise of those who understand what others merely sense.
Transmogrification — the alchemical shift from one state to another. Earned through knowing.
Beauty that kills — and resurrects. Nine fragrances distilled from history's most dangerous flowers, each a testament to the luminous confidence of those who have glimpsed the edge and returned, transformed.
Emanuel's Dustin Lujan also suggested Parfums Quartana’s Ierofante, which he said was inspired by “a motorcycle astronaut on the moon.” I didn’t question the imagery—what’s a Harley doing up there!—because I was busy trying to locate my nose, which had been blown off by Ierofante’s bracing whack of gasoline. But the aroma softened quite nicely. My sister, a fan, likened it to a “clean department store.”
— WALL STREET JOURNAL
Emanuel's Dustin Lujan also suggested Parfums Quartana’s Ierofante, which he said was inspired by “a motorcycle astronaut on the moon.” I didn’t question the imagery—what’s a Harley doing up there!—because I was busy trying to locate my nose, which had been blown off by Ierofante’s bracing whack of gasoline. But the aroma softened quite nicely. My sister, a fan, likened it to a “clean department store.”
—WALL STREET JOURNAL
The Fragrance Foundation — Perfume Extraordinaire
Art & Olfaction Institute — Independent Prize
IFRA-Compliant
Cruelty-Free
The Fragrance Foundation — Perfume Extraordinaire
Art & Olfaction Institute — Independent Prize
IFRA-Compliant
Cruelty-Free
