Sacre Coeur - Limited Edition Perfume by Heretic

Black Label · Limited Edition Perfume · 1 of 100

SACRÉ CŒUR is an ultra-limited Black Label perfume, with only 100 bottles produced. This exclusive fragrance is a Nocturne-only release, created by Douglas Little of Heretic Parfum, and cannot be found anywhere else.

Our first six bottles sold out in just two days in-store, and we are thrilled to announce that a small additional batch is arriving soon. 

To ensure you don’t miss out on this rare release, please click the “Notify Me” button to receive an alert the moment SACRÉ CŒUR returns to Nocturne.

🖤 Estimated arrival: December 21–23
🖤 Availability: Extremely limited

Notes from the perfumer, Douglas Little: 

A fragrance of cathedral air, antique resins, and meditative stillness.
There are places that hold scent the way stone holds light. The Sacré Cœur Cathedral is one of them: cool mineral walls breathing incense, candle soot, wax, and centuries of devotion.

SACRÉ CŒUR is my attempt to gather that atmosphere, not as a literal portrait, but as a living incense, a relic of aroma, a private chapel on the skin.
This is a perfume built the old way, slowly, from rare and antique materials that have been used for ritual and solace since antiquity. Each essence carries its own age, its own geography, its own soul. When they meet, they do not shout. They glow.

Materials
A sacred blend of resins, woods, and shadowed sweetness: Omani frankincense, myrrh, styrax, labdanum, cypress, juniper, cedar, vanilla absolute, cypriol. Frankincense from Oman rises first, bright, lemon resinous, almost translucent, then folds into myrrh’s sepulchral bitterness, the two performing their ancient dialogue of lift and depth. Styrax and labdanum bring the slow smoke of burnt offerings, balsamic, leathery, warm as old prayer books. Cypress and juniper thread through like dark green air in a high nave. Cedar steadies the whole with a dry, architectural calm. Vanilla absolute and cypriol arrive late, not sweet so much as ambered and earthy, like the last breath of incense clinging to wood. A quieting molecule Frankincense contains farnesol, a natural molecule long associated with stillness of mind. It is known to soften the edges of thought, to quiet the interior room, allowing the brain to settle into something like meditation. In SACRÉ CŒUR, this effect feels less like a note and more like a climate, an atmosphere that slows time.

The wearing
This is a perfume for those who love incense not as a costume, but as a truth. It wears close at first, then blooms slowly with heat, becoming a soft radiance of smoke and resin. It is ancient, but not heavy. Solemn, but tender. A scent for night, for winter, for solitude, for ritual, whether that ritual is prayer, art, or simply being still.

Craft and rarity
SACRÉ CŒUR is made in a micro edition of 100 bottles. Each bottle is hand poured, blended, and bottled. Each label is hand done by a master calligrapher. Every bottle is individually numbered 1 of 100. No two are precisely alike. Each is an object with its own small human irregularities, what I think of as the signature of the hand.

Essence

SACRÉ CŒUR envelopes the senses in ancient beauty and wisdom. It is a fragrance of sanctuary: smoke lifting into silence, resins warming on stone, the tender gravity of the sacred made intimate on skin.