Jöklalykt

A glacial wind stirs across Iceland’s highlands, carrying the breath of long-hidden earth.

Meltwater releases the deep, mineral coolness of ancient ice, mingling with the raw edge of wet soil and the faint trace of petrified wood. The air feels both distant and familiar—clean, weightless, and alive with memory. It captures the fragile instant when the frozen ground exhales after centuries of silence, revealing what has slept beneath. Worn on skin or cast into a room, it feels like standing at the edge of a glacier, where time slows and nature remembers itself.

• Jónsi Birgisson

Fischersund is a family-run perfumery and art collective anchored in downtown Reykjavík, where musician, visual artist, and self-taught perfumer Jónsi — lead vocalist of Sigur Rós — joined siblings Lilja, Ingibjörg, and Sigurrós, along with partners Sindri and Kjartan, to build something that resists easy category. Founded in 2017, it operates out of a space that is simultaneously a shop, a gallery, a venue, and an installation — a place designed, in the brand's own words, to let the senses synthesize and harmonize.

At the center of the practice is handcrafted fragrance: perfumes that are hand-blended and hand-poured in Iceland, drawn from oils and herbs sourced from the Icelandic wild, and packaged sustainably. Lead artisan Sigurrós Birgisdóttir oversees production in the Súðarvogur workshop, where each scent is developed in close conversation with the bespoke music and visual work the collective produces. The result is a body of work in which scent, sound, and image arrive together — not as adjacencies, but as a single sensory argument.