Witch

A late‑afternoon powerwalk through the city becomes a secret ritual, cap and neon phone in hand, heart beating to a trap‑beat only they can hear.

The air tastes faintly like a dark sports drink, cool and fizzy, dragging in crushed apple peel and the damp green of a forest that starts right where the pavement ends. Inside, dark woods loom: resinous bark, smoky herbs, and something bitter and old, like a tincture steeped too long in the dark. Tuberose bleeds in, loud and fleshy, threaded with black frankincense, until the whole thing feels like a pact made in a clearing of outsiders who moved outside the map.

• 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.