The evening edit · Usiku eau de parfum
The nighthas a scent.
Smoked vanilla, dark oud and black pepper. It is composed in Nairobi for the hours after eight.
Scents Central · Nairobi
Wemakeperfumeforthehoursaftereight:forrooftopdinnersinWestlands,longdrivesdownNgongRoad,andthelastsongbeforethelightscomeup.
Most worn in Nairobi
The ones peopleask about.
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Six families, one wardrobe.
Every perfume belongs to a family. Start with the one that feels like you, and wear its opposite on the nights you want to surprise yourself.
Rose with a thread of oud
For her
Made to be borrowed
Shared
Leather, tobacco, a lit match
For him
The house
Composed in Nairobi,worn everywhere.
Every Scents Central perfume starts as a memory of this country: rain on red murram, the tea estates at dawn, the smoke of a Lamu doorway. We blend in small batches at our Westlands studio, and we macerate each one for six weeks before it reaches you.
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What customers say
Wore Usiku to a wedding in Karen and three people asked me what it was before the speeches.
Paid on M-Pesa at lunch and the rider was at my office by four. Kilima is now my everyday.
Lamu smells like my grandmother’s house in the old town, only more expensive. I love it.
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You get new releases, private studio evenings in Westlands and the occasional sample, about once a month.