About

Poznań

A confectioner's approach to fragrance.

We sell components and a method, not a finished thing in a bottle.

A confectioner's bench with trays of sesame and pistachio brittle cooling on parchment

Named after a brittle

Sohan is a Persian confection: saffron and pistachio set in a flat golden disc, snapped rather than cut. Break a piece and every layer is visible at once.

That is the whole idea. A fragrance built this way is also a cross-section. You put one thing down, then another over it, and what people actually smell is the stack.

Why oil, and not a spray

Alcohol is what makes a perfume flash off in the first ten minutes and what makes it flammable, breakable and expensive to post. Take it out and three things change: the scent sits on skin instead of evaporating off it, the bottle survives a bag, and the whole thing goes through a letterbox for the price of a stamp.

It also means the concentration is doing the work rather than the alcohol. What you smell at the start is roughly what you smell six hours later.

Three scents, deliberately

№ 03 Sesame Skin is the base. № 01 Saffron Pistachio and № 02 Burnt Sugar are what you put on top of it. A fourth gets added when there is a reason for it, not when the calendar says autumn.

One scent is a decision somebody else made for you. Two worn over each other is one you made.

How we intend to behave

  • We name the note, not the feeling. Roasted pistachio and warm milk, not “an unforgettable journey.”
  • We do not do dupes. Nothing here will ever be sold as smelling like somebody else's perfume.
  • No claims beyond perfume. It is a fragrance. It does not treat anything and we will not pretend otherwise.
  • No fake scarcity. No countdown timers, no invented stock counts, no “selling out fast.”
  • Polish and English as equals, not one as a translation of the other.

Made properly

Every formula is safety-assessed and notified before it goes on sale, with a named Responsible Person in the EU and a full ingredient list including declarable fragrance allergens on every unit. That is the cost of doing this properly, and it is the reason a brand can be copied but a formula cannot.

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