What it is
A ceramide regenerative night cream.
Formula Dossier
Ceramide Regenerative Night Cream
EVENING · STEP V
The fifth evening step. A ceramide-architecture night cream built around plant-derived phytoceramides — glycosphingolipids and glycolipids — carried in Theobroma Cacao seed butter and Butyrospermum Parkii shea butter. Applied after VEIL, before ETHER. The barrier-replenishment moment of the evening.
Restoring · Nourishing · Fortifying · 99% Natural Origin
NOCTURNE at a Glance
What it is
A ceramide regenerative night cream.
When
Evening Step V.
Why it matters
Restores the lipid barrier overnight.
Texture
Rich butter-cream, warm-cream tone.
Finish
Calm, supple by morning, never greasy.
Use
Press into clean skin after VEIL, before ETHER.
When to choose NOCTURNE
NOCTURNE sits at evening · step v.
Plant-derived ceramides slot where the corneocyte lipids have thinned.
Cocoa and shea butters deliver fatty-acid replenishment through the night.
Applied before ETHER — works while the skin regenerates after midnight.
White-flower and lavender notes settle the nervous system at application.
Richer than GRACE — never greasy, deeply absorbed.
Texture Film Warm butter-cream. Dense, never greasy. Built for the night cycle.
NOCTURNE in four frames
Frame 01On the spoon.
A satin-matte scoop of butter-cream.
Frame 02On the marble.
Glides without resistance.
Frame 03Between the fingers.
Warmed first, then pressed in.
Frame 04On the skin.
Applied as the fifth evening step.
Ingredient Architecture
Each group carries a precise role in the formula. None of them work alone.
Plant-derived phytoceramide architecture.
Cocoa butter — overnight lipid replenishment.
Shea butter — barrier-rich, slow-absorbing.
Sea-buckthorn + elder antioxidant duo.
Peony root — Northern apothecary calm.
Ritual Placement
Evening · Step V
Pressed into clean skin after VEIL, before ETHER (the final seal). Works on the neck and jawline. Avoid the immediate eye area.
Aloe Barbadensis (Aloe) Leaf Juice1, Theobroma Cacao (Cocoa) Seed Butter1, Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil1, Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil1, Dicaprylyl Carbonate, Pentylene Glycol, Polyglyceryl-6 Stearate, Cetearyl Alcohol, Glycerin2, Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Cera, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter1, Olea Europaea (Olive) Oil Unsaponifiables, Sodium PCA, Palmitic Acid, Stearic Acid, Polyglyceryl-6 Behenate, Parfum, Cellulose, Rhus Verniciflua Peel Cera / Rhus Succedanea Fruit Cera, Shorea Robusta Resin, Hippophae Rhamnoides (Sea Buckthorn) Fruit Extract1, Xanthan Gum, Paeonia Lactiflora (Peony) Root Extract, Sambucus Nigra (Elder) Fruit Extract1, Vaccinium Macrocarpon (Cranberry) Seed Oil1, Glycosphingolipids, Glycolipids, Aqua, Sodium Phytate, Ascorbyl Palmitate, Tocopherol, Lactic Acid, Sodium Hyaluronate, Linalool2, Limonene2
1From organic farming · 2From natural essential oils
A Note from the Founder
NOCTURNE is the cream I reserved for the slow nights. It is where the barrier is rebuilt.
— Merlin Dragutinovic, Founder
Order Now · First Circle
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Confirmed. The doors open the thirtieth of May.
I have your address. There will be two letters between now and the launch — a few days before First Circle private access opens, then on the morning the doors do. No urgency in between.
Your only task is to forget about us.
30 May 2026 the doors open.
19 June 2026 the public follows.
The journal is open. Three pieces, written before the products were ready.
Merlin Dragutinovic
Founder · Austria