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Training and career
Hiram Green is a Canadian perfumer, born and raised in Toronto, where he studied drawing and painting at the Ontario College of Art and Design. Trained in the visual arts rather than in chemistry, he later approached perfumery with an artist’s eye, attentive to material and texture.
He moved to London to make a living from his art and drifted into work in perfume shops. Daily contact with the bottles sparked a fascination with scent as a material. In 2003 he opened his own niche perfume store in the city, Scent Systems, where his taste for composition took shape. There, over several years, he learned the craft as a self-taught perfumer, through direct experimentation with natural raw materials and without attending a formal perfumery school. It took him years to develop his own scent language and feel entitled to call himself a perfumer.
In 2013, settled in Gouda, the Netherlands, he founded his eponymous house, Hiram Green, with a debut perfume, Moon Bloom, an opulent tuberose. The choice was radical: to compose exclusively from 100% natural materials, with no synthetic molecules, and to handle every stage, from juice to packaging, in his own studio.
This choice, which he sums up as slow perfumery, shapes his whole output: perfumes that are 100% natural and sustainable, ethically sourced, GMO-free and cruelty-free, handcrafted in small batches and aged for at least three months before bottling. Green frames it as a personal, subjective choice rather than an activist statement.
Recognition came gradually. In 2019, his amber leather Hyde won an Art and Olfaction Award in the Artisan category, a distinction that placed the house among the references of contemporary natural perfumery. As the sole author of the whole catalogue, Hiram Green works at the slow pace that natural materials and artisanal production impose.
Signature creations
Hiram Green composes and produces his house’s entire catalogue himself, from 100% natural materials, since 2013. Below are the nine compositions, with the olfactory family as classified by the house.
| Year | Perfume | Olfactory family |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Moon Bloom | White floral (tuberose) |
| 2014 | Shangri La | Fruity chypre |
| 2016 | Arbolé | Dry woods |
| 2017 | Slowdive | Floral amber |
| 2018 | Hyde | Amber leather |
| 2022 | Arcadia | Floral fougère |
| 2024 | Philtre | Spicy floral |
| 2024 | Tryst | Citrus floral |
| 2025 | Ultra | Green floral |
Olfactory signature
Hiram Green’s signature follows first from a choice of materials: all-natural, with no synthetics. Without molecules to brighten or fix a composition, his perfumes have a thick, warm, faintly vintage texture, closer to the great natural perfumery of the past than to contemporary synthetic niche. Tuberose, oakmoss, labdanum, vanilla and natural ambers recur from one perfume to the next.
Beyond the naturalness, this is an artisan perfumery in the full sense: handmade, small batches, ageing, a single author. Trained in the visual arts, Green works natural materials within their limits rather than against them, drawing from them the depth and roundness for which he is known. He presents his all-natural stance as subjective, not as a lesson.
Intense, opulent and expressive: a self-taught perfumer who composes alone, in 100% natural materials, from the tuberose of Moon Bloom to the award-winning leather of Hyde.
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Sources
- Hiram Green, official "About" page (career, Toronto, Scent Systems 2003, self-taught, all-natural, Gouda, Hyde Art and Olfaction 2019)
- Hiram Green · official press kit, "Fact Sheet – Brand Overview" (slow perfumery, nine-perfume catalogue, materials)
- Fragrantica, Hiram Green nose page (catalogue and years, cross-confirmation)
- The Art and Olfaction Awards (Artisan winners, cross-confirmation Hyde 2019)