Six eau de parfums. Six Indonesian materials, traced from their ground to your skin.
The first collection · six eau de parfums in composition
Run · Banda Sea · c. 1623Read the island behind the mapLeaf, root, bud, resin, blossom or heartwood. Each becomes an eau de parfum shaped by place—and by the way it settles on skin.
Dark earth, cocoa and old timber, softened by green leaf.
Nutmeg is the seed. Mace is the scarlet aril wrapped around it. Smell them apart and the same fruit moves in two directions.
Before the tree was carried elsewhere, both materials came from the Banda Islands. That botanical fact drew a trade of extraordinary reach—and a monopoly enforced through conquest, enslavement and removal.
Read why the world came to BandaYou do not need a trained nose—only time and attention. Begin with sensation, return through time, then let skin have the final word.
Take one short smell. Before reaching for rose, smoke or spice, notice the sensation. Four questions are enough to begin.
Do not decide at first spray. Return to the same blotter—or your skin—and notice what moves forward, what softens and what stays close.
What arrives before you can think?
What becomes the centre?
What remains close?
Benjawi is a new name shaped by the passage from lubān jāwī to benzoin. Kemenyan Sumatra follows that route back towards the resin—and outward into fragrance.
lubān jāwī · across languages · benzoin
Kemenyan resin · Tapanuli, North Sumatra
Incense · balsamic warmth · cool lake air
