Things Lost & Remembered
Autumn 2026: Signs & Omens
There is something about Autumn that makes us look backward.
The days get shorter. The air changes. Things die beautifully.
Familiar smells return after being absent for a year.
And suddenly we remember things we hadn't thought about in decades.
A particular October when we were young.
Every year, Redwood Alchemy returns to the darker side of the seasons.
But this year, Autumn isn't simply about Halloween.
Autumn 2026 is about Things Lost & Remembered.
The places that stay with us. The people who don't.
The objects we keep long after their usefulness has passed.
And the strange way scent can bring all of it back without warning.
The days get shorter. The air changes. Things die beautifully.
Familiar smells return after being absent for a year.
And suddenly we remember things we hadn't thought about in decades.
A house.
A road.
A word.
A word.
Someone we loved.
Someone we lost.
A particular October when we were young.
Every year, Redwood Alchemy returns to the darker side of the seasons.
But this year, Autumn isn't simply about Halloween.
Autumn 2026 is about Things Lost & Remembered.
The places that stay with us. The people who don't.
The objects we keep long after their usefulness has passed.
The traditions we repeat because someone once taught them to us.
And the strange way scent can bring all of it back without warning.
The First Signs
The story has begun.
SIGNS & OMENS
A Story in Five Chapters
This year's new Autumn fragrances tell one story, one chapter at a time.
CHAPTER ONE
CROSSROADS
A rural road after dark. Damp earth beneath your feet. Tobacco, rum, candle wax and cold night air.
Some places change you.
Others demand something in return.
CHAPTER TWO
RITUAL
You’ve smelled this before.
You’ve stood here before.
Not quite a memory.
But close enough to make you look twice.
— MORE SIGNS WILL APPEAR —
CHAPTER THREE
THE HARVEST IS DARK
Fruit left hanging too long.
Dark wood. An abandoned orchard.
Something ripening past its season.
CHAPTER FOUR
AS THE CROW FLIES
Dry. Bitter. Black.
Anise somewhere beneath it.
Something moving overhead.
CHAPTER FIVE
LIGHTS LEAD THE WAY
Strange lights between the trees.
Mushrooms beneath your feet.
Follow them if you dare.
— FROM AUTUMNS PAST —
Not everything returns unchanged.
But some things return every year.
Alongside Signs & Omens, fragrances from previous Redwood Alchemy Autumns are returning for the season.
Familiar scents of fallen leaves, spice, darkness, sweetness and October nights.
Familiar scents of fallen leaves, spice, darkness, sweetness and October nights.
Old favorites.
Old memories.
Another Autumn.
A Final Word
THINGS LOST & REMEMBERED
Fragrance has always been tied to memory.
Sometimes deliberately.
Sometimes whether we want it to be or not.
A perfume can preserve something long after the moment itself is gone.
A place, a person, a season, sometimes an entire version of ourselves.
A place, a person, a season, sometimes an entire version of ourselves.
Many Redwood Alchemy fragrances begin there.
This has never been more true than now.
This has never been more true than now.
This Autumn, I'm going to tell some of those stories.
Some are beautiful.
Some are far from it.
Each of them left something behind.
Autumn 2026
Signs & Omens
Things Lost & Remembered.
— Wren
Perfumer, Redwood Alchemy