ORRISHAW
Try all four — £22
Small glass vials of fragrance and amber bottles on a white marble slab in the perfumer's workshop

Blended by hand in Birmingham since 2017

Four fragrances, made slowly on one bench.

Orrishaw makes small batches of eau de parfum from real orris, resins and woods — 4 batches a year, 380 bottles each, filled and tagged by the perfumer.

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4.9 from 640 reviews Free UK delivery £22 back on your first bottle
The house fragrance Orris & Ash £145 · 50 ml eau de parfum

The fragrances

Which of the four is yours?

We make four fragrances and keep making them. Each is 15–20% concentration, 50 ml, and £145 — or £96 as a refill.

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A clear, square Orrishaw bottle with a blank paper label, half buried in rippled sand Powdery woods

Orris & Ash

£145

Cold root over a fire that has gone out.

Notes: Bergamot · Black pepper · Orris

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A sage-green Orrishaw bottle resting in pale sand among dry dune grass Green floral

The Long Afternoon

£145

Cut grass, a white flower, and nowhere to be.

Notes: Neroli · Bergamot · Lavender

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A frosted cream Orrishaw bottle lying in sand under hard stripes of shadow Dark woods

Vyse Street

£145

Metal dust, workshop doors open, the end of a shift.

Notes: Black pepper · Lavender · Oakmoss

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A clear, square Orrishaw bottle with a blank label lying in smooth grey sand Resin

Blotter Twelve

£145

One material, on its own.

Notes: Frankincense

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Scent finder

Answer three questions, get one name.

Tell us how you want to feel, when you will wear it and what you like the smell of. We will point you to one fragrance — and the set, so you can check on your own skin.

Which one suits you?

  • Orris & Ash Calm, quiet days and people who want a fragrance noticed at arm's length, not across a room.
  • The Long Afternoon Warm days, mornings and anyone who wants something bright that still feels grown-up.
  • Vyse Street Evenings, colder months and people who like a fragrance with an edge to it.
  • Blotter Twelve People who like simple, clean things, and anyone who wants one fragrance for every day.
Try all four — £22
Small glass vials of fragrance infusions lined up on a marble slab £22credited back

The discovery set

Try all four. Keep the £22.

All four eaux de parfum in 2 ml sprays, five paper blotters and a tasting card. Wear them for a week, then buy the one you reach for — the set’s full price comes off your first 50 ml bottle.

Discovery set, four 2 ml sprays
£22
Your first 50 ml eau de parfum
£145
Credit code in the box
−£22
You pay for the bottle
£123

Code valid for twelve months, online or at the bench. Free UK delivery on the set.

Order the discovery set — £22 What is inside
The perfumer's hand holding a glass pipette over a small bottle on the bench

The bench

Named for a root that dries for six years.

Orrishaw is one perfumer and one assistant in a former jewellery workshop on Vyse Street. We are named for orris — iris root dried for six years before it is worth distilling — because it taught us to work slowly and not to substitute.

Fragrances
4
Raw materials
11
Bottles a batch
380
Meet the bench

How a batch is made

380 bottles, four times a year.

Every bottle you buy comes from a batch we weighed, rested, tested and filled ourselves.

Every material is weighed to a hundredth of a gram, by hand, against the formula card.

Weighed

Every material is weighed to a hundredth of a gram, by hand, against the formula card.

The concentrate matures for six weeks in amber glass before it meets any alcohol.

Rested

The concentrate matures for six weeks in amber glass before it meets any alcohol.

Each batch is checked on paper strips against the last one, over three days.

Blotted

Each batch is checked on paper strips against the last one, over three days.

Bottles are filled, sealed and tagged with a handwritten batch number.

Filled

Bottles are filled, sealed and tagged with a handwritten batch number.

What goes in

Eleven materials from eleven places

Eleven raw materials across four formulas, each bought from a named region. The full list, with what each one does, is on the materials page.

All eleven materials
  • Purple iris flowers in a shaded garden

    Orris

    Tuscany

  • Hands peeling a citrus fruit in one long spiral

    Bergamot

    Calabria

  • Two hands holding a bowl of golden resin tears

    Frankincense

    Dhofar

  • Pale wood shavings curling beside a knife

    Sandalwood

    Western Australia

  • Dried rose buds in a clear glass bowl

    Rose

    Isparta

Why Orrishaw

What £145 buys at Orrishaw

A department-store fragrance spends most of its price on the bottle, the advert and the counter. Ours goes on the materials.

Feature Orrishaw Designer brand Niche house
Concentration 15–20% eau de parfum 8–12% eau de toilette 15–20%
Who makes it The perfumer, on one bench A contract factory A contract lab
Try before you buy Five 2 ml sprays, £22 credited A tester strip in a shop Samples, rarely credited
Refills £96 for 50 ml None Sometimes
Price for 50 ml £145 £70–110 £180–260

Why people come back for a refill

4.9 out of 5 from 640 verified reviews

“I bought the discovery set expecting to like the floral one. Three days of blotters later it was Vyse Street, and I would never have picked it off a shelf.”
Priya S., Leeds · wears Vyse Street
“Orris & Ash is the first fragrance people have asked me about in years. Quiet, but it is still there on my scarf the next morning.”
Tom W., Bristol · wears Orris & Ash
“My second bottle was a refill. Posted the empty on a Monday, had it back on the Saturday with a handwritten batch number on the tag.”
Hannah R., Edinburgh · wears The Long Afternoon

Journal

Orris, refills and how to test a scent

All articles
Hands laying cut paper blotter strips in a row on a white board

Guides · 4 min

How to use a discovery set properly

Four fragrances, five blotters and one rule — never judge a fragrance in the first ten minutes. A three-day routine that finds the one you will actually wear.

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Questions about scent, delivery and refills

Anything else, ring the bench on 0121 496 0271 — the perfumer answers the phone.

How does the discovery set credit work?

Every set ships with a single-use code worth £22. Use it on any 50 ml bottle within twelve months and the set has cost you nothing. It works online, by phone and at the bench.

How long does a 50 ml bottle last?

At three or four sprays a day, about five months. Our eaux de parfum are 15–20% concentration, so you need fewer sprays than with most high-street fragrances.

How long does it last on skin?

Between six and ten hours depending on the fragrance and your skin, longer on clothes. Each fragrance page gives the figure our panel measured on skin, not on paper.

How do refills work?

Order a refill, post your empty 50 ml bottle to the bench with the free label we email you, and we refill it from the current batch for £96. It is back with you within a week.

When will my order arrive?

We dispatch on Tuesday and Friday. UK delivery is free and takes one to two working days after dispatch. Europe costs £12, the rest of the world £24.

Still unsure? Take the scent finder or read every question.

Four fragrances. One week to decide.

Order the discovery set for £22, wear each one on your own skin, and the £22 comes off whichever bottle you choose.

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