The Body Tale After Salon

Fresh from the blow-dry.

After Salon starts at the moment you walk out of the chair: soft shampoo bubbles, a trace of floral in the air, warm clean skin after a gentle blow-dry. Fresh, cozy, a little flirty, a hair-spa mood held in the bottle.

Bergamot and aldehydes open it bright and lathered. Jasmine and sweet pea carry a light floral heart. White musk and sandalwood settle underneath, warm and close to the skin.

The Body Tale makes fragrances in Indonesia out of familiar things. Roasted green tea made with milk. Chamomile with a slightly bitter almond. Sparkling lychee syrup. The walk out of a salon after a gentle blow-dry, and the moment after a bath when skin is soft and clean.

Tea and milk come back again and again: roasted, steeped with chamomile, or pressed from soybeans. So do the small rituals of looking after oneself, shampoo bubbles and something milky smoothed onto skin. Home is in it too, a childhood kitchen and a cup shared across generations, and so is Bunga Raya, the red hibiscus that is Malaysia's national flower. Every release is an extrait.