PREMIERE PEAU
albâtre sépia

2025

PERFUMER
Florian Gallo

white truffle
ink
metallic woods
creamy woods
violet
praline
vanilla tahitensis
vanilla planifolia

‘A chiseled shell revealing soft fractures. Albâtre Sépia combines truffle’s earthy intensity with ink and metallic woods. A powdered violet flirts with restraint while dry vanilla and creamy woods soften the composition’s mineral rigor. A classical silhouette ruptured from within—noble, yet quietly deviant.’ – Premiere Peau

‘Albâtre Sépia rests on a fascinating mineral balance. […] A musky veil suspends time, granting the fragrance an immutable presence. It embodies an enigmatic beauty, sculpted into eternity.’ – Florian Gallo

A quick general introduction, before diving into this specific fragrance. Premiere Peau launched in 2025 and simply based on presentation, aesthetics, but also to some extent, the notes, it immediately caught my attention as one of the most interesting new brands. After wearing them all once, I can say that most of them feel modern. Not as eccentric as I expected; none of them are ‘hard to pull off’ in my opinion; but some of them are on the abstract side, which I appreciate. There’s more sweetness among them than I anticipated. My stand outs on first impression are Doppel Dancers & Rose Monotone.

Albatre Sepia is one of the fragrances from Premiere Peau that suits my taste most, albeit a tad sweeter than I’d like (which goes for multiple of their releases).

It opens on the more daring side, but quickly turns into a more familiar smelling sweet amber, with some suede facets. The opening has some fizziness, almost citrus-like, but mostly it reminds me of asphalt. Earthy, cashmeran-like, slightly muddy.

The brightness leaves almost instantly and makes way for a more sweetened, earthy amber reminiscent of an Amouage Lustre or a Francesca Bianchi/Annindriya Orris Soyeux.

I think it’s well done for this style of sweet earthy base, but it does wear me down a bit after a while. I get some overlap with the drydown of Doppel Dancers, which is the one that has my preference.