Cap Ferrat

The Riviera holds its breath at midday, all salt and citrus and stone gone warm in the sun.

Along the coast, orange rind and grapefruit catch the light and turn it bright, while fig and a soft touch of coconut warm the edges. Pine needles carry the green of the hillside down toward the water, and jasmine and ylang ylang bloom somewhere close by, lush and unhurried. Underneath, amber, patchouli, and musk settle in like the last golden hour before dusk. It feels like ease itself: a long lunch that drifts into evening, bare feet on cool tile, the sea flickering just beyond the terrace. Sensual and calm at once, it holds onto the warmth of the day and refuses to let it end.

Rock Caps are cut from natural Spanish stone. Because each stone is one of a kind, veining, color, and shape will vary from the image shown and from bottle to bottle.

• Frank Voelkl

Vacanza is the work of Jonathan Keren, who spent roughly fifteen years in the American beauty industry before relocating to Amsterdam to build a perfume house of his own. His premise was almost travel-agency simple: a fragrance should be able to stand in for a departure. Partnering with the acclaimed perfumer Frank Voelkl, Keren shaped a debut trio that treats a sunlit coast, a quiet temple garden, and a snowbound chalet less as places to describe than as moods to slip into.

Their signature is literal: every bottle is topped with a cap cut from Spanish stone, no two alike, that turns into a small diffuser once misted, letting the scent settle into a room. Cruelty-free and made in Spain, the fragrances are built to be worn alone or layered at will.