Discovery Set

Fourteen sprays from Bree Hyland's seaside studio in Nova Scotia, running from motor oil and cut metal to marzipan and lipstick.

Grit is the newest and the roughest: mud, rubber tires and black pepper over frankincense. Witch turns candy apple sticky against wormwood and foraged herbs. The rest range wide: brine and wild roses off the Atlantic, embers with smoke but no flame, pleather and old tobacco out of a 90s chatroom, purple suede gone soft with iris, saffron gilded with glossy magazine and coins. Hyland is a visual artist who blends in small batches in Plekteaq, Scots Bay.

14 x 2mL

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.