Útilykt

The air is alive with motion—sea spray carried inland, snow drifting through pale light, grass pressed flat by the wind.

A tang of ozone rises above cold stone and thawing moss, while distant smoke curls from a fisherman’s cottage. Breath fogs, mittens damp, thyme crushed underfoot. Each inhale folds sky, sea, and land into one vast rhythm: the brisk hush before snowfall, the soft green persistence of life beneath it. What remains is clean and elemental—like memory itself, suspended between seasons.

Headwind in every direction
Drifting snow creeping undercoat collars
Snow beads on wooly mittens
Berry colored tongue and head resting on a pillow of moss
Lawnmower in a distant garden
An undressed Christmas tree blowing down the sidewalk in the sea breeze
Frosted windows, weather forecast, and the car heater on full blast. 

• Jónsi Birgisson
• Lilja Birgisdóttir

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.