Cafuné

A Portuguese word for fingers in a lover's hair.

The gesture is small and repeated, done by somebody wholly absorbed in it, at a bright bedside. Pure and heartfelt affection, and companionship, which is the classical motif of love.

Mimosa softens everything into powder. Pepper and turmeric leaf sit underneath, warm and a little rough, and turmeric root takes that further down into the earth. Thyme and geranium hold the green side of it, and hay and sandalwood close it dry and near.

Nook Hill is a Shanghai house, founded through the shared perspectives of photography, art history and design. An art laboratory of olfactory, landscape and emotion, taking untamed nature apart with a rational, methodical mindset and breaking away from traditional fragrance structures. For materials it works with century-old names including Robertet and Mane. The name points at hidden hills, and the work goes after the private emotional folds of modern life.

The 10mL arrives as an object as much as a liquid. A small stone opened up and worn on the body, its core magnetic and replaceable. The room diffusers borrow the weight and raw honesty of Brutalist architecture, a curved metal holder and sculptural silver wings. The work is made for anyone who wants the wilderness inside the steel forest of the city, and it treats fragrance, image, text and action as parts of one experiment.