Issue 01 · August 2026
Magazine
Long pieces on the five houses. Read them as you would a magazine — slowly, on the page.
Cover · Scents Library
Macau is already wearing something
Salt in the air, monsoon on the skin, air-conditioning at the door. You don’t test a juice here the way you test it in London.
16 min · 2026-08-20
Contents
In this issue
- 01Macau is already wearing somethingScents Library
- 02How Lyn Harris names a perfumePerfumer H
- 03Michael Ruh and the bottle you keepPerfumer H
- 04Alessandro Gualtieri does not print a pyramidNasomatto
- 05Orto Parisi and the garden in PugliaOrto Parisi
- 06Bienaimé, 1935 to 2021Bienaimé 1935
- 07David Frossard and the clear lineObvious
- 08The same name in the bathPerfumer H
- 09Black Afgano, 2009Nasomatto
- 10MegamareOrto Parisi
- 11Shop 1029, The PromenadeScents Library
Perfumer H · 16 min
How Lyn Harris names a perfume
Ink, Moss, Salt, Vetiver. The name is the brief. The juice has to answer it.
Perfumer H · 14 min
Michael Ruh and the bottle you keep
Each 100ml handblown flacon is made to order in London, engraved, and meant to be refilled for life.
Nasomatto · 15 min
Alessandro Gualtieri does not print a pyramid
Nasomatto means crazy nose. The notes stay in the bottle. 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.
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, 2009
Gualtieri wrote that the juice was a search for the smell of the best hashish, and for a bliss that does not last.
Orto Parisi · 14 min
Megamare
The official sentence is about untameable depth. Gualtieri just calls it the sea. Other people call it the loudest marine in perfume.
Scents Library · 12 min
Shop 1029, The Promenade
Galaxy Macau, Cotai. Five houses on one table. Weekdays and weekend, 10:00 to 22:30.