Issue 001 · Autumn 2026
Magazine
Long pieces on the houses, read as you would a thin magazine — slowly, on the page.
Cover · Obvious
Floridita's Night is a Havana bar
Obvious named it after El Floridita, where Hemingway drank. Rum, cigar leaf, tonka. Official notes: cardamom, a double daiquiri accord, myrrh, then vetiver, papyrus and patchouli.
10 min · 2026-08-21
Contents
In this issue
Issue 001 · Autumn 2026
- 01Floridita's Night is a Havana barObvious
- 02Perfumer H in MacauPerfumer H
- 03How Lyn Harris names a perfumePerfumer H
- 04Michael Ruh, and the bottle you keepPerfumer H
- 05Alessandro Gualtieri does not print a pyramidNasomatto
- 06Orto Parisi and the garden in PugliaOrto Parisi
- 07Bienaimé, 1935 to 2021Bienaimé 1935
- 08David Frossard and the clear lineObvious
- 09The same name in the bathPerfumer H
- 10Black Afgano: a search for bliss that does not lastNasomatto
Perfumer H · 12 min
Perfumer H in Macau
Rosemary, white sage, iris root. Harris named it Salt: herbs and mineral left on skin after a day by water. Macau is already by the sea. This is what it smells like, why it belongs here, and how we read it in the shop.
Perfumer H · 16 min
How Lyn Harris names a perfume
Ink, Moss, Salt, Vetiver. Each eau is named for a material as she smells it. The name is the brief. The juice has to answer it.
Perfumer H · 14 min
Michael Ruh, and the bottle you keep
The 50ml on the table is the standard bottle. The 100ml you keep is handblown by Michael Ruh in London, engraved, and made to be refilled for life. They are not the same object.
Nasomatto · 15 min
Alessandro Gualtieri does not print a pyramid
Nasomatto means crazy nose. The notes stay unpublished. The brief is the feeling he wrote down.
Orto Parisi · 16 min
Orto Parisi and the garden in Puglia
Gualtieri dedicated the house to his grandfather Vincenzo Parisi, who fertilised a garden with whatever the body left behind.
Bienaimé 1935 · 14 min
Bienaimé, 1935 to 2021
Robert Bienaimé opened the house as a chemist-perfumer. Cécilia Mergui brought it back without turning it into costume drama.
Obvious · 15 min
David Frossard and the clear line
He studied philosophy, then perfume. Obvious was founded because exclusive had become a joke. Beauty, he writes, does not need a speech.
Perfumer H · 13 min
The same name in the bath
Perfumer H treats lotion, soap and wash as the same landscape as the eau. Not a matching set for the cupboard.
Nasomatto · 14 min
Black Afgano: a search for bliss that does not last
Nasomatto, 2009. An extrait. A burnt oak cap. A search for temporary bliss. He did not print the notes. Seventeen years later it is still the bottle people name first.
Earlier issues
Issue 002 · Winter 2026
Orto Parisi · 14 min
Megamare
The official sentence is about untameable depth. Gualtieri just calls it the sea. In this humidity you find out, in an afternoon, whether the sea is too much.
Scents Library · 12 min
Shop 1029, The Promenade
Galaxy Macau, Cotai. Five niche houses of scent. A perfumer's library. Sun–Thu 10:00–22:00; Fri–Sat and holidays 10:00–00:00.