Discovery Set

Some collections arrive like a doorway thrown open to a room full of strangers who all feel like family.

This is an invitation into the world of a Franco-Sudanese house where ancient recipes meet French craft along the path of the Nile. Five small vessels carry five distinct moods, each drawn from instinct and memory, from whispers to flame and everything resting in between. There is bottled-up longing here, and bold, unapologetic wants. One leans into warm smoke, another into dance, another into far-off travel, another into the soft mystery of myrrh, and one more into something woody and alive. 

5 x 2mL

• Maiada El Khalifa

Tayshaba is a Paris-based niche fragrance house founded by Maiada El Khalifa, the first Franco-Sudanese perfumer. A descendant of Sudanese independence fighters with ancestral roots on Aba Island in the White Nile, Tayshaba was built around a conviction that beauty should be a truth — not a convention. After studying olfactory design in Grasse and Paris, Maiada turned to the ancient perfume traditions of Sudan as raw material, reimagining centuries-old recipes through a singular lens. The brand's name fuses "Taiasha" — a fierce ancestral tribe — with "Aba," the island at the center of the family's history, arriving at the phrase that drives everything: Fierce Beauty.

Each Tayshaba fragrance is a meeting point between Sudanese heritage and French craft — rare ingredients, ancestral secrets, and an insistence on making something that belongs to no one category. The signature scent, Ahmar Danse, reclaims a bridal ritual rooted in the Kingdom of Kush. The collection is fully vegan and built around ethical sourcing and minimal-waste packaging. Visually and philosophically, the brand moves like the Nile itself: crossing cultures, refusing containment, telling you exactly who you are.