Voyeur Verde

Bergamot, Mandarin, and Cypress trees intermingle with the blooming aromas of Iris and Ylang Ylang. Fennel, Frankincense, and woods bring a fresh and herbaceous scent with hints of green and resinous undertones.

On a gently sloping hillside in the Spanish town of Pedramala, a faded Mercedes has been abandoned to nature’s elements. Beneath a thick and untamed green veil it rests, nearly invisible to the unobservant eye. Underneath the foliage, Liquorice leather interiors are sheltering from the midday sun. The balmy cypress trees shadowed by the Sierra Bernia mountains.

• 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.