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Collection 001 — The Founder’s Release

Rendezvous with Destiny

A destiny worth meeting.

Candle · Room & Linen Spray · Vault 001 — Edition of 50

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Fragrance Portrait 01 — The Sculpture: driftwood holding amber, cardamom pods, and a vanilla bean
Presence / Memory / Ambiance
Rendezvous with Destiny fragrance notes — lime peel, cardamom pod, amber resin, and sandalwood shavings on travertine
The Composition

Bright at first. Then unmistakably itself.

Green apple and bright citrus.
Orris, saffron, and brushed suede.
Sandalwood, dry vanilla, and cotton musk.

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The fragrance fades. The card remains.

Every fragrance arrives with its collection card — Starry Night Over the Rhône on heavyweight cream stock, made to be kept.

The Rendezvous with Destiny Collection Card — Starry Night Over the Rhône on cream stock, marked The Grand Collection · Collection 001 · Philadelphia
The Release

Three ways to reserve Rendezvous with Destiny.

50 Vaults — $99 each · 50 individual candles — $45 each · 50 individual room sprays — $28 each

The Candle

  • 12 oz candle
  • Collection card
50 offered individually
Details

The Room & Linen Spray

  • 100 mL / 3.4 oz room & linen spray
  • Collection card
50 offered individually
Details
Edition of 50

Vault 001

  • 12 oz candle
  • 100 mL / 3.4 oz room & linen spray
  • 10 mL eau de toilette
  • Numbered collection card — No. 001 to 050
50 Vaults, each numbered
Details

The eau de toilette is available only within Vault 001 for this release. Individual candles and room sprays are separate allocations and are not numbered.

A Destiny Worth Meeting.

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Presence · Memory · Ambiance

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A fragrance house for the home.

Presence · Memory · Ambiance
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Collection 001

Rendezvous with Destiny

A study in quiet contrast — bright and hard to place at first, then plush, warm, and unmistakably itself. Rendezvous with Destiny opens the house through warmth, atmosphere, artwork, and story.

Fragrance Portrait 01 — The Sculpture: driftwood holding amber, cardamom pods, and a vanilla bean

The Scent

Opening

green apple, bright citrus

A flash of tart green apple and bright citrus — crisp, charged, and difficult to place.

Heart

orris, saffron, brushed suede

Plush in place of loud. Powdered orris with saffron and brushed suede kept as controlled accents.

Drydown

sandalwood, dry vanilla, cocoa husk, cotton musk

Sandalwood and dry vanilla over cocoa husk, finishing in a musk that stays close.

CharacterTextured amber, intimate and unisex
ExpressionsCandle · Room & Linen Spray · Eau de Toilette (Vault 001)
The Release

50 Vaults — $99 each · 50 individual candles — $45 each · 50 individual room sprays — $28 each

The Candle

  • 12 oz candle
  • Collection card
50 offered individually
Details

The Room & Linen Spray

  • 100 mL / 3.4 oz room & linen spray
  • Collection card
50 offered individually
Details
Edition of 50

Vault 001

  • 12 oz candle
  • 100 mL / 3.4 oz room & linen spray
  • 10 mL eau de toilette
  • Numbered collection card — No. 001 to 050
50 Vaults, each numbered
Details

The eau de toilette is available only within Vault 001 for this release. Individual candles and room sprays are separate allocations and are not numbered.

The Artwork
Vincent van Gogh, Starry Night Over the Rhône, 1888 — gaslights and stars reflected in dark water
Vincent van Gogh Starry Night Over the Rhône, 1888 The Rendezvous with Destiny Collection Card

The night is wide on the river, and the town has set its lamps against it. Gold leans across the water in long, unhurried lines — light that has somewhere to be. On the bank, two figures walk toward the same small hour, the way certain evenings seem arranged in advance. The air smells of cut apple and cold stone, then of suede and warm vanilla, the way a lit window smells like home before you reach the door. Nothing hurries. Nothing hesitates. What is coming has always been coming — a rendezvous kept beneath the stars, warmth answering the dark. Light the candle: the river is yours to cross.

The Objects
Placement reserved — packaging and unboxing photography forthcoming
Placement reserved — vessel and card detail photography forthcoming

Kraft carton · wine box · vessel · card — the unboxing, photographed. Photography forthcoming.

Collection 001 · The Founder’s Release

Rendezvous with Destiny

Tart green apple and bright citrus open crisp and charged. The brightness settles into powdered orris, saffron, and brushed suede, resting on sandalwood, dry vanilla, and a close cotton-musk trail — plush, intimate, made for close wear and quiet rooms.

This release: 50 Vaults — $99 each · 50 individual candles — $45 each · 50 individual room sprays — $28 each. The eau de toilette is available only within Vault 001 for this release.

The inaugural production of Collection 001.
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Inside Vault 001

  • Luxury Candlefull size, 12 oz, hand-poured · alone
  • Room & Linen Sprayfull size, 100 mL · 3.4 oz · alone
  • Eau de Toilette10 mL · the fragrance, worn · within Vault 001 only for this release
  • The Collection Card, numberedStarry Night Over the Rhône on heavyweight cream stock — No. 001 to 050, e.g. No. 017 of 50

One composition — for wax, for air, for skin — presented together. Fifty Vaults in this release.

The inaugural production of Collection 001. One secure Stripe checkout from your reservation.
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The Fragrance

Ingredients

How to Use

Care & Safety

Shipping & Returns

Reservations are taken during a defined window, or until an allocation is fully reserved. Orders are poured after the release closes. Preorders are not yet open. Join the list for reservation and shipping details. Full details, including Vault 001 returns and cancellations, in our Shipping & Returns policy. Full ingredient declarations are published above and printed on every label.

The House

A fragrance house
for the home.

The Grand Collection is a collectible fragrance house made in Philadelphia, where scent, artwork, and story are conceived together. A fragrance is developed for the way it lives in a room, and each expression is released only when the composition feels complete in that form — Collection 001 opens the house with Rendezvous with Destiny: the candle and the room & linen spray.

Every batch is weighed to the hundredth of a gram, batch-logged, and rested before it ships. Collections open as Founder’s Releases — produced to reservation, closed on a stated date, then poured, rested, and shipped.

Presence. Memory. Ambiance.

The Collection is built on three ideas. Presence — a fragrance should announce you quietly, and hold the room after you’ve entered it. Memory — the scents that matter are the ones that return you somewhere; we compose for the moment you’ll want back. Ambiance — every fragrance has a setting it was made for, which is why each collection is tuned for wax, for air, for the room — expression by expression.

Each collection carries an original dotwork system, developed point by point alongside the fragrance — the visual signature you’ll find on every label and carton.

The Founder

The Grand Collection began at Dominic Walton II’s kitchen scale in Philadelphia — one jar, one blend, one evening at a time. What started as a search for a scent that couldn’t be bought became a practice: build slowly, weigh everything, release nothing before it’s rested. Collection 001 is the first of those evenings made public.

Dominic Walton II, founder of The Grand Collection
Dominic Walton II Founder · Perfumer · Philadelphia

Small batches

Formulated in-house, produced in small batches, and recorded by lot — weighed to the hundredth of a gram, every run.

Founder’s Releases

Each collection opens as a reservation window with a stated close. When a release closes, it closes — production is poured for the people who reserved it.

Scent, translated

Every composition is considered for the form in which it lives — for wax, for air, for the room. The fragrance remains the story; each expression offers another way into it.

Questions & Answers

What does Rendezvous with Destiny smell like?

A flash of tart green apple and bright citrus settles into powdered orris, saffron, and brushed suede — resting on sandalwood, dry vanilla, and a soft cotton-musk trail. Plush, intimate, unisex.

What is the Founder’s Release?

Each Grand Collection release has a moment. The Founder’s Release is Collection 001’s — reserved during a defined window, or until an allocation is fully reserved. When the window closes, the release moves into production: every order is poured, rested, and shipped as one edition.

When does my order ship?

Orders are poured after the release closes and rested before they leave. Preorders are not yet open. Join the list for reservation and shipping details. You’ll receive production updates by email along the way.

Candle or room spray — where do I start?

Both carry the identical composition. The candle is the fragrance through warmth and flame, held through an evening; the room & linen spray introduces it into the atmosphere immediately, and is the simplest first meeting with the house. Neither is lesser — they are two expressions of the same fragrance.

What is Vault 001?

Rendezvous with Destiny, presented three ways in one reservation — the 12 oz candle, the 100 mL room & linen spray, and a 10 mL eau de toilette of the same composition — with a numbered collection card. Vault 001 is an edition of 50; each card is numbered No. 001 to 050. The eau de toilette is available only within Vault 001 for this release.

Can I buy expressions individually?

Yes. Fifty candles and fifty room & linen sprays are offered individually in this release, alongside the fifty Vaults. The 10 mL eau de toilette is not sold separately — for this release it comes only within Vault 001.

How many are there?

This release is three separate allocations: 50 Vaults — $99 each · 50 individual candles — $45 each · 50 individual room sprays — $28 each. Reserving a Vault does not take from the individual allocations, and the individual pieces are not numbered. This is the size of the Founder’s Release, not of the fragrance itself.

Is the collection card numbered?

Within Vault 001, yes — each of the fifty carries its number, No. 001 to 050, assigned in the order reservations are completed. Individual candles and room sprays arrive with the collection card, unnumbered.

Is it safely formulated?

Each product is formulated within the applicable IFRA usage limits for its product category. Full ingredient declarations are published on each product page before purchase and printed on every label.

What if it’s not for me?

Unopened pieces may be returned within 30 days of delivery; Vault 001 returns as a complete, unopened set. Cancellation details live in our Return policy. Write to us and we’ll make it right.

How many can I order?

Collection 001 pieces — including Vault 001 — are limited to five per order, and to what remains of each allocation. Units are held for you while you complete checkout; if a checkout is abandoned, they return to the release.

How do I care for the candle?

Trim the wick to ¼ inch before every burn, let the first burn develop an even melt pool across the vessel, and never burn longer than four hours at a time. Full care and safety guidance lives on the product page and ships with every candle.

What size is the candle?

12 oz, hand-poured into translucent wine-toned glass.

What is the Collection Card?

Every Rendezvous with Destiny candle and room & linen spray arrives with its collection card — Starry Night Over the Rhône printed on heavyweight cream stock, made to be kept and displayed: on a mantel, a bookshelf, a desk, or in a frame. Within Vault 001 the card is numbered. The fragrance fades. The card remains.

Can I buy the Collection Card separately?

No. The card accompanies the fragrance and is not currently sold on its own.

Why Starry Night Over the Rhône?

Because the painting holds the same evening the fragrance does — lamplight against dark water, and two figures moving toward a meeting that was always going to happen. We chose it the way a composer chooses a key: not to explain the fragrance, but to continue it.

Is my payment information safe?

Yes — checkout is powered by Stripe. Your card details are entered on Stripe’s secure checkout, not on our site.

How do I reach you?

info@thegrandcollection.shop — or the newsletter below, where collection announcements land first.

Policies

Shipping

Founder’s Release reservations are taken during a defined window, or until an allocation is fully reserved. Orders are poured after the release closes; shipping dates will be announced before reservations open; every batch is rested before it leaves. You’ll receive tracking by email when your order is on its way. Original shipping charges are non-refundable except when an order arrives damaged or in error.

Returns — individual pieces

Unopened individual pieces may be returned within 30 days of delivery for a refund of the purchase price. Write to info@thegrandcollection.shop for a return authorization before sending anything back. Return shipping is the customer’s responsibility unless the item arrived damaged or incorrect.

Returns — Vault 001

Vault 001 may be returned as a complete set, unopened, within 30 days of delivery. Write to info@thegrandcollection.shop for a return authorization before sending anything back; return shipping is the customer’s responsibility unless the item arrived damaged or incorrect.

Cancellations

Reservations may be cancelled for a full refund until the reservation window closes, or until an allocation is fully reserved. After production begins, cancellations are accepted only before fulfillment of your order has started; once your order has shipped, the returns policy above applies instead.

Damaged or incorrect orders

If anything arrives broken or wrong, email a photo within 7 days of delivery and we’ll replace it or refund it — your choice. No need to ship damaged glass back.

Privacy

We collect your email and shipping details only to fulfill orders and, if you opt in, to send collection announcements. Payments are processed by Stripe; card details are entered on Stripe’s systems, not ours. We never sell your information. To unsubscribe or request deletion of your data, use the links in the footer or write to info@thegrandcollection.shop.

Terms of sale

Collection 001 pieces — including Vault 001 — are limited to five per order. Product imagery is illustrative; each hand-made batch may vary slightly. Candles and fragrances are for their intended use only — follow the care instructions included with your order.

Your place is held.

Thank you. A receipt is on its way to your email, and your reservation is part of the Founder’s Release of Collection 001. We’ll write when your order is poured.

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