Why Not A Cologne?
Mark Buxton
Vyrao
Vyrao
Neandertal
Neandertal light is in stark contrast to Neandertal dark, a journey which explores concepts of olfactory dissonance.
Radiant and expansive Neandertal light concentrates on the present and as such, possesses a linear and harmonious structure.
Hinoki oil is expanded with muted green notes creating a horizontal landscape, an olfactory still-life representation of nature.
The binding quality of orris gives Neandertal light rigidity, form and cohesiveness within the structure. This binding quality produces a powerful resulting force, encapsulating time and the space around us.
Leather and ambergris add unparalleled natural beauty and familiarity, displaying both power and magnetism.
A contemporary portrait of the Neandertal mystery, this fragrance captures a suspended snapshot in time.
Each bottle is handmade by the artist Kentaro Yamada.
Each of our 90ml stoneware bottles is uniquely numbered digitally using an NFC chip to ensure its provenance. Scan your bottle using the Neandertal app on iPhone or any NFC-enabled Android device to see more information.
Top notes: Hinoki, Coriander, Galbanum & Violet Leaf
Heart notes: Orris & Metallic accord
Base notes: Ambergris, Patchouli, Leather, Cedar & Musk
Neandertal
Neandertal us™ explores human history through universal olfactory profiles that exist across many cultures.
Neandertal us invites self-reflection: What makes us who we are? What cultural patterns did we create for ourselves over the course of history? Neandertal us is a universal celebration of life; a distillation of our collective journey to what we know now as modern human.
A familiar yet contemporary fragrance, Neandertal us contains spices, greens, and fruits foraged from natural environments used throughout history for ceremonies, remedies, culinary purposes and perfumery. Deeper, smokier tones such as vetiver, sandalwood, oud, and musk create a well-rooted familiarity and sense of security, while a citric and green woody profile creates energy within them.
Neandertal us and them form a visual and conceptual pair that elicit a thought-provoking, olfactory experience, which speaks to our ancestral sense of belonging while addressing the tension created by one of mankind’s oldest and simplest understandings of identity. An ageless notion, in a constant state of flux, that we engage with everyday. It is an issue that carries as much weight today as it has throughout human history.
Top: Bergamot, Orange, Elemi, Pink Pepper, Black Pepper & Eucalyptus.
Heart: Rose, Cardamom, Frankincense & Geranium.
Base: Vetiver, Hyraceum, Labdanum, Myrrh, Cypriol, Cade, Oud, Tree Moss Absolute, Sandalwood Oil, Musk.
Vyrao
Ember’s black wax is created using a blend of mineral, coconut and rapeseed wax. While the rapeseed and mineral waxes are sourced sustainably in Europe, the coconut wax comes from group of small holder farmers in the Philippines.
Our vessels are made of white porcelain ceramic.
Specifications - Porcelain. 170g. 40 hours burn time.
Vyrao
Wonder carries the scent of uplifting Mediterranean lemon, mandarin and orange flower absolute into a blend of intoxicating night-flowering jasmine and vanilla, interlaced with sandalwood and musk. Every Vyrao Candle includes a “V” talisman supercharged by our Quantum Energist, Louise Mita. The Ember Candle has a burn time of 40 hours.
Ember’s black wax is created using a blend of mineral, coconut and rapeseed wax. While the rapeseed and mineral waxes are sourced sustainably in Europe, the coconut wax comes from group of small holder farmers in the Philippines.
Our vessels are made of white porcelain ceramic.
Specifications - Porcelain. 170g. 40 hours burn time.
Vyrao
Ember’s black wax is created using a blend of mineral, coconut and rapeseed wax. While the rapeseed and mineral waxes are sourced sustainably in Europe, the coconut wax comes from group of small holder farmers in the Philippines.
Our vessels are made of white porcelain ceramic.
Specifications - Porcelain. 170g. 40 hours burn time.
Atl. OBLIQUE
Cold wind blows around tender leaves. Rain surprisingly falls from a cloudless sky and nature plays around like a high-spirited child - wild, unruly and full of life. It smells of damp earth, fresh green and herbal fruity blossoming. Winter and spring wrestle with each other, are un- predictable and magical at the same time. In the sky, a fascinating pas- tel painting is drawn on soaked paper. It is April. Just as this moody month is full of surprises, APRIL SKIES Eau de Parfum holds an eclec- tic spectrum of freshly tart notes. Like the spring awakening itself, the fragrance begins with delicately fresh notes of lemon, fruit seeds and a green accord. A first moment that announces the benevolent months. In the heart, a floral woody composition of cedarwood and iris. It smells like a hesitant awakening - as if nature hasn’t quite made up its mind yet. The base with sandalwood and leather-amber notes wrap us in a surprisingly wintery coat again. Change, hope and impermanence go hand in hand in this fragrance and manage to appear quite confidently as a whole. As naturally as April brings all opposites with it.
Top: lemon, fresh leaves, carrot seeds, pear seeds
Heart: cedarwood, iris, incense
Base: sandal wood, woody ambery, leather
Specifications - Eau de Parfum. 50ml
Please note: perfumes are only shipped within EU
Atl. OBLIQUE
The body tingles. The eyes, wide open. We enter a dreamlike world of fleeting shadows while mellow sounds caress our senses. MOON SIGH is the fragrance that makes you wander on the rim between illusion and reality, like a sleepless night that entrances you in slowness and drifty restlessness all at the same time. In the Eau de Parfum MOON SIGH, an intense variety of exquisite woods come together to create a captivat- ing fragrance. Bergamot, rosemary, pine and Elemi gum combine for a fresh, spicy top note that touches our senses first, like the bright halo of the rising moon. At the heart, a beguiling coffee note, a promise of morning, while herb-floral notes of geranium and papyrus plant evoke the day as a hazy memory. The base note of vetiver, moss, patchouli and leather bring you back into the mystique of the night. MOON SIGH is a flood of emotions exhaled as a deep sigh into the night sky. Solemn and beautifully melancholic like a full moon night.
Top: bergamot, elemi gum, rosemary, pine
Heart: coffee, geranium, floral, papyrus
Base: vetiver, moss, patchouli, leather
Specifications - Eau de Parfum. 50ml
Please note: perfumes are only shipped within EU
Atl. OBLIQUE
A body of light, pulsing with energy. Auspicious and glowing, it sub- merges everything around it in colourful light. It is both a force and an inspiration, like the sun itself. The LIGHTFALLS Eau de Parfum is dedicated to the phenomenon we call light in all its facets, dousing us in a waterfall of light and colour. The composition of LIGHTFALLS re- sembles a full colour palette that shines in notes from woody and warm to fruity and fresh. The top note is dominated by spicy, fizzy chords of various kinds of pepper and grapefruit. It sparkles like the feeling of shimmering sunlight on the skin. Composed of spicy and aromatic saf- fron and vetiver, the heart note shares some likeness with a ray of light pushing through the clouds. Where it touches the earth, it is reassuring and warming. Sandalwood, the resinous oil of cistus, and a chord of woody ambery come together in the base note to form a woody-dry, sweet balsamic scent. Like a ray of light breaking through a leafy forest. Light and scent fuse into a fragrant body of light that characterises this Eau de Parfum. Compare it to a dancing waterfall of light that com- bines peppery-fresh and woody-warm notes.
Top: timur berry, grapefruit, pink peppercorn
Heart: saffron, vetiver
Base: sandalwood, woody ambery, cistus
Specifications - Eau de Parfum. 50ml
Please note: perfumes are only shipped within EU
Atl. OBLIQUE
BOHEMIAN WOODS blurs the lines between remaining in a place and leaving it behind. It is the scent of spiritual belongings, of expecta- tions and decisions. It comes in the company of hope and with courage in the heart. Where this scent prevails, not only does it leave a hint of the far away and the sweetness of longing, it also combines these two with the profound knowledge of coming change. It pays homage to its roots, while open-heartedly embracing new ways. The prelude of this extrava- gant perfume is made by a chord of red Spanish pepper, South African freesia, the wooden and warm hue of the elemi-gum, rounded off by seductive anis-sweetness that resides in absinthe. In the heart note the scent of longing for somewhere far away meets a rare and exclusive mix of dark resins. Incense epitomises the belief in change, patchouli the free spirit. A tinge of saffron lends the perfume a luxurious poignancy and a trace of the unknown. Iris, one of the most valuable ingredients for perfumes, gives it its floral yet earthy and highly intellectual note, and represents inner richness. – In the base-composition, dark and dry woods, Argentine leather and Oriental musk play the passionate song of fiery adventures. South American vanilla dances to it on a soft and enticing breeze with whispers of wistfulness.
Top: absinthe, elemi-gum, red pepper, freesia
Heart: saffron, incense, iris, patchouli
Base: dry woods, musk, leather, vanilla
Specifications - Eau de Parfum. 50ml
Please note: perfumes are only shipped within EU
Atl. OBLIQUE
Concrete and poetry. Raw beauty. A house as a fragrance. Materia in transition. Exterior become interior. Expanse and freedom open up. »Form follows emotion. Emotion follows senses.« A scent like a bed of clouds that nestles against wide windows. As massive walls touch the damp earth. Rich green meets hard edges. A masterpiece made of glass, steel and concrete that involuntarily blends into the environment. Like a painting, a fantasy, surrounded by radical space. The fragrance picture – wide spaces filled with the sound of green, velvet flowers and cool marble. Architecture meets nature and speaks poetry. A fresh wind of bamboo, bergamot and wild herbs surrounds a room made of bronze surfaces and green natural stone. A room, accentuated and at the same time naturally sublime. In the depths, the composition consists of spicy saffron notes and fine woods that make a stylish statement with a dream of cool materials – an image of freedom and endlessness.
A modern perfume. Elegant, striking and perfectly formed.
Top: bergamot, coriander, camomile, bamboo
Heart: vegetal, saffron, sage, violet leaves
Base: patchouli, agarwood, musk, leather
Specifications - Eau de Parfum. 50ml
Please note: perfumes are only shipped within EU