Truffle

Off the Kaikoura coast, salt air drifts inland and settles over vines still young enough to feel like a secret. 

This is land in the middle of becoming itself — soil where truffles took root only decades ago, with grapevines following close behind. Dark berries press against grape leaves and brambly wild roses, sweet and untamed. Beneath them runs something earthier: truffle, mineral-rich soil, damp moss, and roots pulled straight from the ground. A swirl of cognac warms it through, while olive, oak, and cork lend a weathered, cellar-cool edge. Sea brine and leathered ambergris settle in last, animalic and gritty in the best way. Over hours it turns sweeter, the berries returning like dark wine swirled slowly in a glass before folding into something soft and skin-warm. It feels like a vineyard caught between wilderness and craft — verdant, decadent, and a little strange.

• Miss Layla

Scent Trunk started in Toronto in 2015 with a straightforward ambition: make bespoke perfumery accessible. What grew from that idea is something less easily categorized — a fragrance platform governed by an olfactive council that maps out an annual creative calendar, drawing on trend forecasts across art, fashion, food, and travel while giving its commissioned perfumers genuine creative latitude. Each release is tied to a seasonal focus ingredient and the places and cultures it comes from, with artists ranging from classically trained perfumers to musicians, painters, and digital creators working in scent for the first time.

Today, Scent Trunk's Original Editions form the core of what the brand puts into the world — fragrances conceived by a global roster of independent noses, spanning continents and career paths, equally at home with the self-taught and the academically trained. Seasonal, collaborative, and editorially driven, Scent Trunk operates as much like a fragrance publisher as a perfume house.