Most worn
No. 01 · Oriental & Amber
Usiku
from KES 6,500
The Nairobi collection · Sixteen perfumes
Scent, composedslowly, in Nairobi.
Small batches made from Kenyan tea, Lamu jasmine, Baringo honey and rain on red earth. Each one is matured for six weeks before it is bottled.
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Start with what you already love.
Worn by whoever loves it.
We file perfumes the way most people shop for them. Every bottle is still yours to wear however you like.
The house
“We start with a place we know: a hill, a coastline, a doorway in Lamu. Then we try to bottle the minute you remember it.”
Scents Central began in 2019 as a single bench in a Westlands flat. Today we compose, mature and bottle every perfume in our studio on Westlands Road. We work in batches of two hundred bottles, so nothing waits long on a shelf.
Read our storyFrom our customers
Overheard.
“Wore Usiku to a wedding in Karen and three people asked me what it was before the speeches.”
Wanjiru K. · Kilimani “Paid on M-Pesa at lunch and the rider was at my office by four. Kilima is now my everyday.”
Brian O. · Upper Hill “Lamu smells like my grandmother’s house in the old town, only more expensive. I love it.”
Amina S. · Mombasa
Letters from the studio.
About once a month we send new batches, early access to limited runs and the occasional studio evening invitation. That's all.
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