What we publish.
What we prove.
The fragrance industry runs on opacity. Ingredients are trade secrets. Concentrations are marketing claims. We chose differently.
Every composition published in full
Every King’s Gambit fragrance ships with its complete note pyramid, ingredient list, extraction method, geographic origin, and exact concentration by weight. Not approximate ranges. Not marketing descriptors. The actual percentages confirmed by analytical instrumentation.
This is not common in the industry. It is, in fact, nearly unheard of. Houses at every price point protect their formulas as proprietary information. The customer is asked to trust that the bottle contains what the marketing says it contains.
We made a different choice. The formula is the product. If it cannot withstand scrutiny, it does not deserve a price tag.
GC/MS verified, every batch
Gas chromatography–mass spectrometry separates a mixture into its individual compounds and identifies each one by molecular weight. It is the same analytical method used in pharmaceutical quality control, forensic toxicology, and clinical diagnostics.
Every production batch of every King’s Gambit fragrance passes through GC/MS analysis before it is bottled. The chromatogram — the visual output showing each peak at its verified concentration — is published on the product page.
Our founder runs one of the largest hospital microbiology laboratories in the South. GC/MS is not a marketing concept here. It is the instrument he uses daily.
Every bottle made in the same workshop as the fragrance
Most fragrance houses commission bottles from glassmakers in France, Italy, or China. The designer never touches the vessel. The perfumer never sees the factory.
King’s Gambit bottles are fabricated in the same New Orleans workshop where the fragrances are formulated and batched. CNC machined brass on a Nestworks mill. Kiln-cast glass in a Paragon GL-24. Lapidary-ground facets on a Covington wet flat lap.
The same hands that write the formulation machine the vessel that holds it.
See the standard applied
Pick any fragrance, read the note pyramid, study the chromatogram, and verify the claim for yourself.