Padel Balls

A figure with a ball for a head and a racquet in each hand stands on the turf. Wide blue eyes above a zigzag seam, green from crown to foot.

Around him is the smell of a match about to start: rubber first, thick and springy, the way a new one is before it takes a single hit. Citrus cuts through, sharp and clean, more peel than juice. Then the ground answers back, synthetic turf gone faintly plastic. Sportiness rather than sweetness, the ritual repeated before every match.

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.