• A Gentle Madness is a small-batch natural perfume with green sweetness, sweet fennel, marshmallow and tonka — a 30 mL extrait by House of Apocrypha.
  • A Gentle Madness bottle with black cap beside green crystal and sugar cube
  • A Gentle Madness bottle with silver atomizer exposed, green-lit mist and sugar cube nearby

House of Apocrypha

A Gentle Madness

A Strange Green Sweetness

Key accents

Green sweetnessCrystal facetsSugarMineral coolnessSoft shadow
Chapter
Fall 2026
Edition
First Edition
Status
Closed

$135.00 USD

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Sugar held to the light until it turns strangely familiar, yet mysteriously unsettling.

The hour is uncivilized.

The absinthe has gone quiet in the glass. There’s lemon and mandarin still clinging to the rim, sweet fennel rising like a spell half-spoken. You stayed too long. Or perhaps you arrived too early.

Ylang ylang unfurls like a velvet ribbon, pulling you deeper. Cardamom warms at the edges. The air thickens. The sweetness fades—but it does not leave. It lingers in the walls, behind the sandalwood, under the skin.

This is not a fragrance. It is a séance in miniature. A brief, green delirium.

Wear it when you wish to remember something that never quite happened.

A perfume that smiles without ever quite explaining why.

A perfume that smiles without ever quite explaining why.

30 mL black glass bottle, presented in a black box.

Every bottle arrives with a companion vial of the same fragrance. The vial travels outside the sealed package. Wear it for three days. If the chapter is not yours, contact us within fourteen days of delivery and return the bottle unopened, in its original sealed packaging. The vial remains with you.

Alcohol (cane sugar), parfum* (aromatic compounds from essential oils, CO₂ extracts, absolutes and purified plant isolates), aqua / water, Evernia prunastri extract (Oakmoss), Illicium verum fruit oil (Star Anise), Iris germanica root extract (Orris Root), Pogostemon cablin leaf oil (Patchouli), Vetiveria zizanioides root oil (Vetiver), triethyl citrate (natural ester of citric acid).

*As with all natural perfumes, this blend may contain trace amounts of common botanical allergens such as: limonene, linalool, geraniol, eugenol, farnesol, citral, coumarin, isoeugenol, benzyl alcohol, benzyl benzoate, benzyl salicylate, and others naturally found in plant materials.

Vegetarian • No phthalates • No parabens • No synthetic dyes • No formaldehyde.

SKU: HA-GENTLE-30ML