Rice Cake

Soft steamed rice and green fig leaf make the opening feel like a freshly cooked pot on the table, calm and a little starchy, with a gentle, leafy sweetness.

As it moves, rice cake and sesame come forward, adding a chewy, slightly nutty comfort that really does echo mochi and tteok more than frosting or bakery sugar. A touch of amber, white musk, and green tea in the base keeps everything soft, milky, and clean-edged rather than heavy, like the air after a family meal when you’re still sitting around talking.

Built around the New Year tradition of 백설 (Baek Sul), it feels like a small ritual of luck and new beginnings you can carry any day of the year.

KST Scent began with Kael Jeong and a conviction that the smallest moments carry the most weight. Growing up in Korea, Jeong learned that a shared laugh or a quiet night of inspiration can hold an entire life inside it, and built a fragrance house to translate those moments into scent. The brand lives inside LV1 Studio, the independent perfumery project Jeong runs alongside perfumer James Nguyen.

Half the lineup reaches backward, into Korean childhood: street-food sweetness, late-night drinking, the smell of a neighborhood in winter. The other half reaches for something louder, the thrill of being seen exactly as you are. Jeong lets the two run together instead of choosing, which is the point. The scents are composed by hand, sometimes tender and sometimes deliberately brash, and each one is tied to a moment that actually happened.