Mars Oud

Two of the strangest ingredients on Earth, folded into one another. One is oud. The other is real meteorite tincture, drawn from NWA 12564 — a rock that traveled here from Mars.

Sulphur runs through both. The house draws its character as a small grey saucer, red flame trailing behind, a messenger for material that arrived from somewhere else entirely. The result could only be otherworldly: the universe, brought down to something wearable. And for all the strangeness in the glass, this is framed as a way out of chaos rather than further into it.

An invitation to disconnect, and to settle into serenity.

A note on labelling: this fragrance is formulated at extrait de parfum strength. The bottle and box read eau de parfum, as the packaging was produced before the current formulation.

• Antonio Lasheras

Pills started where the training should have been. Antonio Lasheras spent years inside olfactory marketing making scents for other companies, and the shortages never let up. Instruction barely existed. Classic and modern formulas were hard to study, the raw materials harder still to get hold of, so the learning happened alone. Mallo, a house of handmade limited compositions, came out of that. Pills was built with Teresa Klus as a lab where creators develop ideas without being told no.

Every Pills fragrance carries a color, since the house gives each emotion a hue. Green belongs to what's untamed and free. Blue holds freshness and depth at once. Collections arrive with their own illustrations and invented characters, worked out with graphic design studios. The perfumes aren't built to be liked by everyone. They're built to provoke, and that suits the people they're made for.