Hiram Green

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History of the house

Hiram Green was born and raised in Toronto, where he studied drawing and painting at the Ontario College of Art and Design before moving to London. Needing to earn a living, he drifted into work in perfume shops, grew fascinated by the material, and in 2003 opened his own niche perfume store in the city, Scent Systems. A self-taught perfumer, he spent years learning the craft with the essential oils he could find, gradually developing his own scent language.

In 2013 he founded his eponymous house in Gouda, in the Netherlands, choosing a path few contemporary perfumers take: to compose exclusively with natural raw materials, refusing synthetic aroma chemicals entirely, and to make every perfume by hand, from juice to packaging. The debut, Moon Bloom, appeared the same year and immediately defined the house. A rich, creamy tuberose rendered through naturals, it showed that an all-natural composition could hold its own against synthetic-led tuberoses, and it drew early critical praise.

Green frames this approach as slow perfumery. The perfumes are 100% natural and sustainable, ethically sourced, GMO-free and cruelty-free, with no animal-derived ingredient except beeswax. They are built on a base of organic grain alcohol, blended by hand in small batches, and aged for at least three months before bottling; their amber tones come from the raw materials alone, with no added color. Even the packaging is eco-conscious, made from sustainable and recyclable materials.

The catalogue has grown slowly, in keeping with the constraints of natural materials: Shangri La (2014), a fruity chypre, Arbolé (2016), a dry-woods composition named after a Federico García Lorca poem, Slowdive (2017), a floral amber, then Hyde (2018), an amber leather that won the Art and Olfaction Award in 2019 in the Artisan category. It was followed by Arcadia (2022), Philtre (2024), Tryst (2024) and Ultra (2025), a green floral built around narcissus absolute. Throughout, the method has stayed the same, and the house has remained independent and centered entirely on its founder, a reference for collectors who value natural perfumery as a deliberate aesthetic choice rather than a marketing claim.

Notable perfumes

Every Hiram Green perfume is composed entirely from natural materials, as an eau de parfum, and made by hand in Gouda. Below is the current catalogue of nine perfumes, with the olfactory family as classified by the house.

Olfactory signature

The Hiram Green signature follows directly from its founding rule: only natural materials. Without synthetics to brighten or fix a composition, the perfumes have a warm, textured and faintly antique quality, closer to the great naturals-based perfumery of the past than to modern synthetic niche. Tuberose, oakmoss, labdanum, vanilla and natural ambers recur across the catalogue.

The work moves between rich florals, chypres and ambers. Moon Bloom anchors the floral side, Shangri La the chypre, Slowdive the amber, while Hyde shows a smokier, more leathery face. In each case the interest lies in how much depth and roundness Green draws from naturals alone, working within their limits rather than against them.

Because a single perfumer composes and produces everything by hand, the catalogue has a coherent, artisanal character. The small-batch method limits volume but reinforces the identity: each perfume is a demonstration that natural perfumery, far from being a constraint, can be a complete and distinctive aesthetic.

An all-natural house that proves the old materials, handled by one perfumer, still have everything to say.

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The house today

Hiram Green remains an independent, single-perfumer house, with its founder still composing and producing every perfume by hand in Gouda. The all-natural method is unchanged, and the catalogue continues to grow at the measured pace that natural materials and small-batch production impose.

Distribution runs through selective niche retailers internationally, and the house holds a clear, recognized place in the natural-perfumery segment, reinforced by awards such as the 2019 Art and Olfaction Artisan Award for Hyde. For the niche audience, Hiram Green is one of the standard references whenever all-natural niche perfumery is discussed.

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