Nº 01 · Cleanse
Cleansing Milk
Price €34
Oat & calendula
150 ml
Botanical skincare · Est. 2019
Skin, slowed down.
Cold-pressed oils, slow-steeped botanicals and not one ingredient we’d hesitate to say out loud. Three quiet steps that ask for five minutes — and give back the whole day.
4.9 out of 5 from 2,318 unhurried reviews
- 4formulas
- A short shelf, on purpose. Every bottle has to earn its place.
- 40days
- Each botanical steeps for forty days before it ever meets a bottle.
- 40°or cooler
- Oils are cold-pressed below forty degrees, so nothing good is cooked away.
- 400per batch
- Bottles in every batch — each one numbered and dated by hand.
i.Our philosophy
Most skincare is in a hurry. We make ours the way you’d make bread, or wine — with very few ingredients and a great deal of time.
Atelier notes
Oriel began in a farmhouse kitchen: one hand press, a shelf of amber jars and a stubborn belief that a face oil should smell of the field it came from — not of a laboratory.
Seven autumns on, little has changed. We steep every botanical for forty days, press below forty degrees and bottle by hand. No fillers, no synthetic fragrance, no overnight miracles — just a short list of plants and the patience to let them work.
Meet the botanicalsii.Botanicals
Four plants, chosen slowly.
A small, seasonal palette, grown by farmers we know by name and harvested when the plant is ready — not when we are.
Fig. I
Rosehip
Rosa canina
Wild-harvested hips, cold-pressed for their seed oil. Naturally rich in vitamin A to soften fine lines and even tone.
In Face Oil Nº 02
Fig. II
Calendula
Calendula officinalis
Sun-dried petals, steeped forty days in sunflower oil. Calms redness and comforts dry, reactive skin.
In Barrier Balm Nº 03
Fig. III
Sea buckthorn
Hippophae rhamnoides
The amber berry that gives our oil its colour — dense with omega-7 for a quiet, lit-from-within glow.
In Face Oil Nº 02
Fig. IV
Oat
Avena sativa
Finely milled colloidal oat that lifts away the day without stripping, leaving the skin barrier soft and intact.
In Cleansing Milk Nº 01
iii.The ritual
Three steps. Five minutes. Morning and night.
A routine short enough to keep, and gentle enough to keep for good. Each step readies the skin for the next, so a little does a lot.
Step I
1 minute
Cleanse
Massage two pumps of Cleansing Milk into dry skin. Add warm water, feel it turn to milk, then rinse. Clean, never tight.
Cleansing Milk Nº 01 · €34
Step II
2 minutes
Treat
Warm four drops of Face Oil between your palms and press — don’t rub — into damp skin. Breathe in. This is the slow part.
Face Oil Nº 02 · €58
Step III
2 minutes
Seal
Melt a pea of Barrier Balm between your fingertips and smooth it over cheeks and brow to hold everything in until morning.
Barrier Balm Nº 03 · €46
The Ritual Set · Save €16
All three, together.
Cleansing Milk, Face Oil and Barrier Balm in a reusable linen pouch, with a hand-numbered batch card. Enough for three unhurried months.
€122Was €138
iv.The collection
Four formulas. Nothing more.
We’d rather make a few things very well than many things quickly. Every bottle is numbered, dated and pressed within weeks of reaching you.
Nº 02 · Treat
Most loved
Face Oil
Price €58
Rosehip & sea buckthorn
30 ml
Nº 03 · Seal
Barrier Balm
Price €46
Calendula & shea
50 ml
Nº 04 · Anytime
New
Rose Mist
Price €28
Damask rose hydrosol
100 ml
v.In print
The rare face oil that smells of an actual hedgerow. Oriel makes slowness feel like a luxury, not a sacrifice.
From slow mornings everywhere
4.9 / 5
2,318 verified reviews
“My skin finally stopped arguing with me. The oil sinks in within seconds and smells like a walk after rain.”
Saskia V. · Combination skin · Verified buyer “I replaced nine products with three. Mornings feel unhurried now, and that alone is worth it.”
Hélène D. · Dry skin · Verified buyer “The balm is the only thing that got me through a northern winter. I hide it from my partner.”
Jonas R. · Sensitive skin · Verified buyer
vi.Letters
Letters from the atelier.
One unhurried letter a month: what we’re pressing, what’s in season, and first word when a new batch is bottled. Never more. Never noise.