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Faith in salvation, marked with the symbol of the cross.

The first two, Martyr and Altere, were personifications of painful memories, characters that embody certain feelings. This pair is something else entirely: a fictional world of the house's own making, with religion at the centre of it, and through religion two opposing poles, faith in salvation and destruction. References to culture, literature and art give that world depth and make it easier to enter. Every language has its own words for the cross and the circle. The signs themselves are universal.

This is the pole of faith in salvation, an artefact drawing on faith in the Great Schema, the highest grade of Orthodox monastic life. Its cap is covered in religious symbols and an Orthodox prayer. The liquid itself is intensely ecclesiastical and saturated with incense. Hostia is the communion wafer.

Profundum is the work of Dominik and Bartek, an artisan fragrance house from Poland. Each bottle holds their own memories: a childhood of woodland adventures and evening bonfires, the still nights of the Polish countryside, the incense of summer church services. The fragrances are challenging, rebellious and deeply evocative, narratives that reveal rather than conceal, uncompromising and authentic. A diary kept in bottles, one that transcends time.

The first two releases were written as characters, personifications of painful memories. The next two turn instead to a fictional world of the house's own making, with religion at the centre of it and two opposing poles, faith in salvation on one side and destruction on the other, marked with the cross and the circle. References to culture, literature and art give that world its depth and make it easier to enter.