No. 101

A Reykjavik summer hums beneath pale daylight, where long grass brushes weathered fences and the air tastes of green herbs and distant laughter.

Chervil pushes through cracked pavement beside black currants ripening in the cool air. The garden is alive with motion—caraway and lily drift through the stillness, the memory of wood and musk softening as light fades. It’s a portrait of a fleeting season, luminous yet raw, where warmth and frost meet on the same breath. Everything stands suspended between growth and stillness, as if time itself has paused to inhale.

Weathered garden chairs stacked
against the wall. A flower pot filled with rain and cigarette butts sits on the uprooted  pavement now 
swallowed by chervil. Echoes of a nearby party.
Fingers digging up sorrel and dandelions.
Freshly fallen snow on a forgotten trampoline. Black currants fall from bare branches, one by one.

Fischersund is a family-run perfumery and art collective anchored in downtown Reykjavík, where musician, visual artist, and self-taught perfumer Jónsi — lead vocalist of Sigur Rós — joined siblings Lilja, Ingibjörg, and Sigurrós, along with partners Sindri and Kjartan, to build something that resists easy category. Founded in 2017, it operates out of a space that is simultaneously a shop, a gallery, a venue, and an installation — a place designed, in the brand's own words, to let the senses synthesize and harmonize.

At the center of the practice is handcrafted fragrance: perfumes that are hand-blended and hand-poured in Iceland, drawn from oils and herbs sourced from the Icelandic wild, and packaged sustainably. Lead artisan Sigurrós Birgisdóttir oversees production in the Súðarvogur workshop, where each scent is developed in close conversation with the bespoke music and visual work the collective produces. The result is a body of work in which scent, sound, and image arrive together — not as adjacencies, but as a single sensory argument.