Nordic Cedar

Introduced with vibrant and lively notes of cardamom, balanced by earthy tones of patchouli and cedar wood.

The warm and inviting fragrance is further enhanced with soft musk and amber, creating a wild yet cozy aroma.

As the scent lingers, it transports you to the enchanting surroundings of Västerås, Sweden in 1969, with Anette, Maya’s older sister, chatting with the family outside their grandfather’s allotment cabin, overlooking open fields and boreal forests.

• Maya Njie

Maya Njie treats perfume as inherited memory. Self-taught, the practice grew through experimentation — raw materials, essential oils, aroma compounds, and resins worked into compositions that trace a dual Swedish and Gambian heritage. The source material is personal: an archive of family photographs, a Swedish summer house, a grandparent's quiet flat, a wedding remembered in fragments. Each scent reconstructs a place, a person, a moment otherwise left to fade.

The results read as deeply personal yet strangely universal — accords nostalgic in tone, formulations that feel contemporary in execution. Each fragrance is conceived to operate as a souvenir, carrying its original association while taking on new meaning for whoever wears it next. The full range is formulated vegan, extending the same care given to memory to the materials themselves.