Australian botanical brand Aesop has launched Stoic, a new limited edition fragrance developed in collaboration with designer Rick Owens. As of this writing, it appears to be available only with the Aesop + Rick Owens Travel Kit, shown above, and in a matching candle…
One of my most vivid fragrance memories was on a beach in Yakushima, where I found a big piece of driftwood that washed up on the shore. I scratched it with my fingers and I could smell that it was hinoki cypress, which was not from the island itself but travelled through the ocean to reach me. I don't normally believe in signs but it was a beautiful moment that made me feel like I was on the right path.
— Perfumer Barnabé Fillion talks about the inspiration for Aesop Hwyl. Read more in Meet Barnabé Fillion, The Perfumer Behind Aesop's New Othertopias Fragrances at Tatler Asia.
Australian botanical brand Aesop will launch Othertopias, a new trio of unisex fragrances: Erémia, Miraceti and Karst…
[Barnabé] Fillion, a renowned scent designer who has worked with top brands like Aēsop, Paul Smith, and Comme des Garçons, recently collaborated in a multicultural project that has “distilled” some of the plants that grow around the run-down buildings in this underprivileged neighborhood where some of its 18,000 residents come from Asia, Africa and South America. Children from the neighborhood’s Candelaria Educational and Social Association worked on identifying and collecting the plants and sending them by mail to Fillion.
— Jardines en el Aire is a limited edition fragrance for the Tres Barrios-Amate neighborhood, in the Spanish city of Seville. Read more in French perfumer ‘distils’ the scent of one of Seville’s poorest neighborhoods at El País.
Australian botanical brand Aesop will launch Rōzu, a new fragrance that aims to capture the life cycle of the rose. Rōzu was inspired by French architect and designer Charlotte Perriand…