Seven places, each with its own scent and its own geometry.
A collection is a place with a scent palette, not a single fragrance: the soap takes the brightness, the candle the depth, the diffuser the part you can live with all day — and the pattern comes from the same place as the scent. Marrakesh, Arabia and the Aegean open the range; four more follow.
Morocco
Marrakesh
The hot spiced street, and the cool green courtyard behind it.
The medina at dusk. The spice souk is closing, mint tea is being poured from height on a rooftop, and the cedar doors of the riads are shut against the heat. Push one open and you are somewhere else entirely: a courtyard with orange trees, water moving in a channel, shade.
- Scent
- Orange blossom, mint, cedar — and the spiced street
- Pattern
- Zellige tilework
- Palette
- Saffron & Cobalt
The Arabian Peninsula
Arabia
Bakhoor smoke, desert night, cardamom coffee. Resin above everything.
Bakhoor smoke curling out of a brass mabkhara, passed around the room so it catches in clothes and hair. Desert night outside; dates and cardamom coffee within. This is the deepest, darkest collection in the range, and it is meant to feel that way.
- Scent
- Oud, frankincense, amber — resin above everything
- Pattern
- Girih strapwork
- Palette
- Oxblood & Brass
The Spice Islands
Zanzibar
Cloves drying in the sun, brass-studded doors, ocean humidity.
Cloves drying on woven mats in the sun. The carved doors of Stone Town with their brass studs. Indian Ocean humidity, and the smell of the clove groves reaching you from offshore. Spice-led like Marrakesh, but sweeter, warmer, more tropical — nutmeg and clove, never coconut and pineapple.
- Scent
- Clove, lime, ginger — the spice islands
- Pattern
- Carved doors of Stone Town
- Palette
- Burnt orange & Deep teal
Copy and scents for Zanzibar are still being finalised with the supplier.
Iran
Persia
The walled garden that gave us the word paradise.
The walled garden — the pairidaēza that gave us the word paradise. Rosewater and saffron, cypress trees, water channels, carpets woven with the garden as their subject.
- Scent
- Rose, saffron, sandalwood — the walled garden
- Pattern
- The boteh — the motif that became paisley
- Palette
- Deep rose & Indigo
Copy and scents for Persia are still being finalised with the supplier.
Northern India
Rajasthan
Block-printed cloth drying in the sun, marigold and chai.
Block printing yards with cloth drying in the sun. Marigold garlands, sandalwood, chai boiling at the roadside in a clay cup. The most colour-saturated of the seven collections.
- Scent
- Cardamom, jasmine, sandalwood — the printing yard
- Pattern
- Hand-block printing
- Palette
- Marigold & Fuchsia
Copy and scents for Rajasthan are still being finalised with the supplier.
The Greek islands
Aegean
Olive groves and whitewash. Salt drying on skin.
Olive groves and whitewash. Salt drying on skin, fig trees, cypress standing against a hard blue sky, marble underfoot. The Aegean is the restrained collection, and it is here partly as counterweight: five shelves of warm resin would turn the whole range amber, and this one never will.
- Scent
- Olive, bergamot, fig, sea salt
- Pattern
- The Greek key
- Palette
- Emerald & White
Japan
Kyoto
The hinoki bathhouse. A moss garden in rain. Restraint.
The hinoki bathhouse. Temple incense. A moss garden in the rain. Kyoto is the quietest collection and it has to stay that way — over-decorating it would flatten the contrast that makes the other six work.
- Scent
- Yuzu, green tea, hinoki — the bathhouse
- Pattern
- Seigaiha wave pattern
- Palette
- Moss & Ink
Copy and scents for Kyoto are still being finalised with the supplier.