Of Scent and Surrealism

Our brand was born from the quiet spaces between sound and image, from the surrealist belief that reality is far stranger, more beautiful, and more fluid than it first appears.

We believe perfume is more than a product. It is an invisible artwork, a sculpture of memory, dream, and intuition. Our first creation, At Land, was born in homage to Maya Deren’s silent film of the same name. In her world, sound is absent, leaving a space we sought to fill with scent. What if the silence of a film could be reimagined through fragrance? What if the missing soundtrack could rise not in soundwaves, but in vapor and oil?

Our inspirations come from films and artworks that leave us breathless or disoriented, those that haunt the edges of consciousness. Surrealist artists often placed familiar objects in unfamiliar settings, distorting reality to reveal deeper truths. In René Magritte’s The Son of Man, a green apple floats in front of a man’s face—not to hide it, but to challenge our desire to see what we expect. That same spirit guided our decision to use an egg as the perfume cap. People often ask us, why an egg? The truth is: there’s no reason. And we like it that way.

But over time, the egg has become our visual and conceptual signature. To us, it suggests origin, rebirth, and the quiet potential of starting over. Like scent, it doesn’t have to explain itself to be felt.

The Great War (L); Man in a Bowler Hat (R), by René Magritte | Wikiart: (L), (R)

Reality, to us, is relative. An egg can be a cap. A cap can be a sculpture. Scent can be silence.