Dreams and Nightmares

Dreams and Nightmares is a unisex eau de parfum by L’Epoque Parfums, launched in 2026 and composed by Elena Valdivieso Ruiz, a perfumer at Robertet. This earthy woody scent brings together pink pepper, cardamom, eucalyptus and bergamot in the top, patchouli, petrichor and wet earth in the heart, and moss and amber woods in the base.

Brand: L'Epoque Parfums
Launch year: 2026
Perfumer: Elena Valdivieso Ruiz
Gender: Unisex
Olfactory family: Woody
Concentration: Eau de Parfum

Published November 1, 2026

Where to buy

Dreams and Nightmares came out in spring 2026 from L’Epoque Parfums, an independent house founded by Rachel Green in Dallas, at the same time as Inner Child. The eau de parfum, at a 20% concentration, sells in a 30 ml bottle at 125 dollars; the house calls it fully unisex.

Desire and Fear

A place can save as well as swallow, says the house, which wants it beautiful and unsettling, calm until it is not. It captures the moment one realizes that desire and fear often arrive together, and that one wants to send neither away.

Most fragrances resolve, it adds; Dreams and Nightmares holds both without taking sides. The house also offers it in duos, with Dopamine Rose in The Haunted Rose Garden and with Serotonin Spritz in Touch Grass.

A Perfumer from Robertet

Elena Valdivieso Ruiz, a perfumer at the fragrance house Robertet, signed Dreams and Nightmares, as she did Inner Child, released at the same time. L’Epoque Parfums presents its creations as vegan and not tested on animals.