Dolly

A soft, marzipan‑sweet kiss of lipstick and powder drifts through a room that feels like a collaged diary: tufted purple suede, a sprinkle of incense smoke, and a whisper of iris‑touched wood.

It leans into the romance of childhood keepsakes grown up, of having a crush, of writing love letters with a cherry on top. The air turns plush and faintly sugared, like traces of lipstick on a vintage teacup, a cozy, intimate glow that lingers in the quiet hours and weekend evenings. People return to this impression for its peculiar warmth—a candy‑coated, almost edible sweetness edged with soft smokiness and a hint of grown‑up glamour that never fully abandons its playfulness.

• Bree Hyland

BARRE is a collection of fine fragrances by visual artist and independent perfumer Bree Hyland, composed in a studio in rural Mi'kma'ki, Nova Scotia, on the seaside edge of Plekteaq. Made in small batches, vegan and cruelty-free, each scent is built as an atmosphere — a place, a mood, a character — designed to draw the wearer back to the tangible.

The collection moves with range and a certain swagger. Hyland's perfumery is emotive and psychological, willing to be cheeky, willing to be dark, and always composed with an artist's eye for what scent can suggest beyond itself.