Kyoto

Dawn settles over a temple garden, and the world seems to hold its breath.

Steam rises from a hinoki bath, warm and resinous, curling into the cool morning air. Nearby, incense smoke drifts through cedarwood, soft and sacred. A flicker of pink pepper and red berries brightens the first moments before folding into green sage, cypress, and the calm of Japanese woods. As the morning deepens, palo santo and vetiver settle into earth and smoke. Herbal, woody, and meditative, it moves at the pace of ritual: slow, deliberate, unhurried. Here, time loosens its grip, and stillness begins to feel like its own kind of luxury.

Rock Caps are cut from natural Spanish stone. Because each stone is one of a kind, veining, color, and shape will vary from the image shown and from bottle to bottle.

• Frank Voelkl

Vacanza is the work of Jonathan Keren, who spent roughly fifteen years in the American beauty industry before relocating to Amsterdam to build a perfume house of his own. His premise was almost travel-agency simple: a fragrance should be able to stand in for a departure. Partnering with the acclaimed perfumer Frank Voelkl, Keren shaped a debut trio that treats a sunlit coast, a quiet temple garden, and a snowbound chalet less as places to describe than as moods to slip into.

Their signature is literal: every bottle is topped with a cap cut from Spanish stone, no two alike, that turns into a small diffuser once misted, letting the scent settle into a room. Cruelty-free and made in Spain, the fragrances are built to be worn alone or layered at will.