HOUSE OF BARIAN
I
Ex Lapide
From stone
- Ingredients
- Shilajit, smoked vetiver, saffron, labdanum
- Character
- Mineral, smoky, leathery. The house signature.
- Sigil
- The Resin Star
The First Rites
The launch collection
Five compositions, each built around a rare ingredient and marked with one of the house sigils. Every scent comes as Ritual Smoke, attar and extrait.
II
Aurum Floris
The gold of the flower
- Ingredients
- Saffron, Taif rose, cultivated oud
- Character
- Golden, rich, regal
- Sigil
- The Saffron Crown
III
Nocte
By night
- Ingredients
- Hyraceum, jasmine sambac, Siam benzoin
- Character
- Night flowers, warm skin, animalic depth
- Sigil
- The Moth
IV
Ardens
Burning, yet gentle
- Ingredients
- Hojari frankincense, mitti attar, Atlas cedar
- Character
- Rain on hot earth, bright smoke
- Sigil
- The Ember
V
Arcana
Secrets kept
- Ingredients
- Beach-cast ambergris, orris butter, Chios mastic
- Character
- Salt, powder, resin. Quiet and costly.
- Sigil
- The Key
Launching in London. Join the first list to be invited to try them at the Smoke Salon.
The ingredients
A palette that starts where others stop
Most fragrances are built from the same few hundred materials. Barian works with rare naturals, sourced with care.
| Ingredient | Origin | Scent | How we source it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shilajit | Himalaya, Altai | Mineral, smoky, leathery | Named collectors; every batch tested |
| Oud | Southeast Asia | Deep, sweet, balsamic wood | Plantation-grown agarwood only, with CITES documents |
| Hyraceum | Southern Africa | Animalic, leathery, musky | Petrified deposits collected from caves; no harm to the animal |
| Mitti attar | Kannauj, India | Rain on baked earth | Bought directly from traditional copper-still distillers |
| Hojari frankincense | Dhofar, Oman | Bright, lemony resin | Sustainable-tapping partners |
| Ambergris | Atlantic shores | Salty, sweet, radiant | Beach-cast only, washed ashore naturally |
| Taif rose | Taif, Saudi Arabia | Spiced, intense rose | Single-origin, harvest-dated |
| Chios mastic | Chios, Greece | Green, pine-like resin | Protected designation of origin |
Every formula is assessed against IFRA standards before launch.