Cloon Keen Perfumes

Cloon Keen is a perfumer based in the heart of the medieval city of Galway, Ireland. For nearly two decades, it has created scents (Cloon Keen Candles and Cloon Keen Perfumes) that are deeply entwined with Irish landscape, history, and tradition.

The Cloon Keen Candles are produced in Galway. Galway is perched on the western edge of Atlantic Ireland, surrounded by beauty, with the unique landscape of the Burren to the south, the iconic Connemara landscape to the north, and the celebrated Galway Bay—guarded by the prehistoric stone forts of the Aran Islands—to the west.

The city’s rich oral, literary, craft and design traditions combine to form an innate aesthetic that translates into a singular cultural identity. This has inspired countless individual and collective creatives to produce beautiful, meaningful work.

Cloon Keen is one of these collectives, manufacturing the Cloon Keen - Candle and Cloon Keen - Perfume.

Cloon Keen (Cloon Keen Candles) was founded by two filmmakers. After many years of working in the film industry, they followed their hearts and moved to Galway to start Cloon Keen in a small atelier overlooking Galway Bay.

The Cloon Keen collection, influenced by the founders’ filmmaking background, sets evocative scenes that are both precious and fragile.

Find the scent descriptions here:

BEL ÉTAGE.

Taking its name from the most handsome, light-filled rooms in Dublin’s Georgian Buildings, Bel Étage is a celebration of another classic from the Age of Enlightenment: the three-hundred-year-old eau de cologne formula.

Bel Étage opens with an effervescent pediment of crisp Italian bergamot, lemon primofiore, and neroli, crowned with a festoon of lavender & rosemary sprigs. The fragrance reveals its complexity through a textured combination of sprawling moss & vetiver suspended in airy musks.

Notes:
Top notes: Bergamot oil Italy, Orange oil California, Neroli oil Morocco LMR, Petitgrain Bigarade Tunisia LMR.
Heart notes: Lavender oil Bulgaria LMR, Rosemary Oil Tunisia LMR, Coriander seed oil, Mate Oil, Jasmine Abs Egypt LMR, Orange flower.
Base notes: Oak Moss Abs IFRA LMR, Vetiverol (vetiver fraction), Musks, Amber.

CASTAÑA.

A childhood memory of street-roasted chestnuts in Andalusia.

Castaña opens with a delectable haze of burnt chestnuts laced with a fine trace of golden caramel. It gradually reveals a voluptuous blend of rich Haïtian vetiver, cardamom and red pepper bathed in the delicate floral notes of cassia absolute and lush jasmine blossoms.

A stunning and irresistibly mellow composition.

Awards and Recognition:

Awarded ‘5 star Masterpiece’ award by Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez in Perfumes The Guide 2018.
‘Superb from top notes to dry down, and still great a day later.’ Luca Turin.

Notes:
Top: Cardamom, Red Pepper, Roasted Chestnuts.
Middle: Cassia Flower, Jasmine.
Base: Vetiver.

FROSTED MOON.

Evocative of the ethereal radiance of moonlight.

Iris shimmers with a cool silver glow onto the soft warm earthiness of angelica seeds, cedar bark and vetiver, cut with a green snap of galbanum.

Timelessly elegant and resolutely sophisticated. Frosted Moon is an intriguingly paradoxical perfume.

2014 FRAGRANCE FOUNDATION AWARD FINALIST

Notes:
Top: Angelica Roots and Seeds.
Middle: Carrot Seeds, Iris Roots, Ambrette Seeds.
Base: Galbanum Roots, Vetiver Roots, Cedarwood Bark, Musks.

LÁ BEALTAINE.

Solar flower blossoms

Lá Bealtaine is named after the day when spring moves into summer and the earth tilts its face towards the sun.

An ultra-feminine perfume dedicated to the vivacity and joy of youth, Lá Bealtaine opens with beams of bergamot, mandarin and neroli that pour into a diaphanous core of short-shadowed blossoms. Sun-warmed patchouli and cedar provide the backdrop to a languorous amber haze.

Notes:
Top: Bergamot oil Italy, Mandarin oil, Neroli Oil Tunisia LMR, Pink pepper LMR Madagascar, Angelica seed oil.
Middle: Angelica root oil, Jasmin abs Egypt LMR, Rose oil Turkish LMR.
Base: Cedarwood Virginia pure, Patchouli heart no.3 LMR Indonesia

RÓISÍN DUBH.

A mythic Irish rose

A dusky haze of Damascena rose, entwined with a dry paper accord and ink-stained patchouli, unfurls into a brooding base of smoky incense, black pepper and tobacco absolute.

Róisín Dubh (little black rose) takes its name from a subversive 16th century song, which has become an enduring emblem to Irish writers.

Notes:
Top: Rum Absolute, Black Pepper OIl, Osmanthus Absolute.
Middle: Rose Damascena Flower Water, Rose Oil Damascena.
Base: Tobacco Absolute (Balkan), Patchouli Oil (Indonesia), Cedarwood Oil (Virginia), Olibanum Resinoid, Ciste Oil.

SUEDE GALORE.

A nuanced expression of the soft sensuality of suede.

Suede Galore captures the seductive allure of supple nude suede. Rich guaiac wood and tonka flecked with smoky incense add a sumptuous sensuality, while osmanthus absolute shimmers with a warm peachy glow.

Notes:
Top: Rum, Bergamot, Juniper Berries.
Middle: Suede, Guaiac Wood, Jasmine.
Base: Black Amber, Patchouli, Vetiver.

SYBARITE.

A warm embrace of sandalwood with a swirl of the orient.

This intoxicating scent reveals voluptuous sandalwood billowing over a full-blown heart of Bulgarian rose and jasmine. Rich patchouli and smoky incense illuminated with golden amber heighten the alluring sensuality of Sybarite.

Notes:
Top: Bergamot, Rum Absolute.
Middle: Bulgarian Rose, Jasmine, Patchouli.
Base: Sandalwood, Gold Amber, Musk, Incense.

ÉNBARR.

A perfumer’s dream of horses with hearts racing and hooves clattering through history. Wild manes flowing through a wind of spring on fields of fennel, thyme, and geranium.

Énbarr is a supremely sumptuous composition built on the most mythical, captivating material in a perfumer’s palette: oud wood.

The fragrance opens with full-blown geranium & saffron carrying groomed oud and billowing saddler’s leather. A purple mantle of wild thyme and fennel is the idiosyncratic beat to its voluptuous heart.

Notes:
Top Notes: Saffron, Sweet Fennel Oil (Spain), White Thyme (France).
Heart Notes: Geranium Rosat Oil (South Africa), Plum, Patchouli Oil (Indonesia).
Base Notes: Agarwood Oil (Vietnam), Styrax Resin (Honduras), Leather Accord, Benzoin Siam Res. (Laos), Cistus Labdaniferus Extracts (Spain), Incense Extract (Somalia), Oakmoss Absolute (Macedonia), Nagarmotha Oil (India).