On lineage, intention, and the names inside every number
I was always watching.
Long before I understood what I was building, I was paying attention. To the women who shaped me. To the dates that marked their lives. To the quiet ways people leave their fingerprints on everything you become.
When I began composing the fragrances that would anchor The Gathering Table Luxury Edit™, I made a decision. It felt less like a creative choice. It felt more like a moral one.
Nothing would be random.
Not the names. Not the numbers. Not a single detail of what I placed into the world under my initials. Every fragrance in this collection carries a number that encodes a life. A birth date. A birth month. A person whose presence — or whose absence — shaped the woman who built this brand.
This is that story.
Sunlight & Sorbet Collection — Spring & Summer 2026
MBW No. Three — Conservatory Floral
White Florals, Green Dew & Gardenia
Three is the month of March, and March belongs to my mother, Liz, who was born in it. She taught me everything I know about a room long before I had language for what I was learning. She would not have called it hospitality. It was simply the way she moved through the world — making people feel welcomed, seen, and gently at ease. Now, I call it everything. No. 3 — serene, luminous, quietly present — was composed in her honor.
MBW No. 29 — The Afternoon Repose
Peach Nectar
Twenty-nine is her date. March 29.
A single, sun-warmed peach note — unhurried, soft, and entirely itself. The kind of afternoon a woman like her earned. No. 29 was created because some dates deserve to be carried forward. They live on not only in memory or on a calendar. They exist in scent. It’s in the fleeting, beautiful moment that makes someone pause and simply breathe.
MBW Liz — Room Spray
Peach Nectar
The room and linen spray that bears it was created in the spirit of No. 29. The best hospitality mirrors Liz’s actions. It makes someone feel that the moment was arranged just for them. Her name is on the bottle. She has been gone for thirty-nine years. And yet, she is present in every room this spray enters.
Inaugural Collection — Fall & Winter 2025
MBW No. Five — Velvet Hour
Magnolia, Sandalwood & Soft Amber
Five is the month of May. My birth month.
No. Five is warm, velvety, and softly luminous — a luxuriously romantic floral. It carries the quiet confidence of a woman who has learned herself over time and knows what she is building.
This fragrance is mine. An ode to legacy, elegance, and the work of becoming.
MBW No. 20 — Quiet Elegance
American Beauty Roses, Hyacinth & White Lilies
Twenty is the date. My birth date.
The composition is luminous and floral, layered with American Beauty roses, hyacinth, and white lilies. It is inspired by spaces where every detail whispers grace. No. 20 is the fragrance of rooms that feel like an embrace. Of tables set with care. Of a life built on the belief that beauty is never accidental.
MBW Adrienne
The Inaugural Spray
Adrienne is my baptismal name — the name given to me before the world knew me as Monique.
The inaugural spray of this collection bears that name as a quiet acknowledgment of origins. It honors the self that existed before the founder, before the strategist, before the brand. Every collection begins somewhere.
This one begins with a name only the people who knew me first would recognize.
This is what the MBW collection is at its core. Not a product line. A constellation of people whose lives first taught me how to gather with grace.
Every number earned its place. Every name was chosen with the same care I would give to setting a table for someone I love.
Nothing here is random. Nothing here is accidental.
The Gathering Table Luxury Edit™ Spring 2026 Collection
