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— A LIBRARY OF FIFTEEN PERFUMES · MMXVII

Perfume
as a letter
from a place.

Saorsa is a small Indian perfume house. We bottle places, not notes — a monsoon, a temple corridor, a grandmother's almirah, a wedding-morning lawn. Fifteen scents. Three new each year.

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— THE LIBRARY

Fifteen perfumes. Each a place.

No. I
Mansoon
July, Kerala

Mansoon

Wet earth · cardamom · the iron of monsoon.
No. II
Almirah
A grandmother's wardrobe, 1974

Almirah

Sandal · camphor · old silk · neroli.
No. III
Lawn
A Sunday wedding, Lucknow

Lawn

Tuberose · ittar · cigarette smoke at noon.
No. IV
Corridor
A south-Indian temple at 5am

Corridor

Camphor · jasmine · cool stone · ghee.
No. V
Café Bombay
Irani café, January 1992

Café Bombay

Coffee · cardamom · iron table · rain.
No. VI
Library
Asiatic Society reading room

Library

Old paper · leather · tobacco · brass.
— THE ATELIER

Hand-blended in Mussoorie.

Saorsa is run by two perfumers and one apprentice. We blend in small batches — 90 to 240 bottles — and we mature each composition for between 3 and 18 months before release.

We use no synthetic musk, no aldehydes, no allergen-stripped reformulations. The result is a perfume that develops on your skin over six hours and changes for the season you wear it in.

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No. I
Mansoon
— a perfume from Saorsa —

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discovery set.

All fifteen perfumes in 2ml vials. ₹ 3,200. Ships in cotton-wrapped wood. Free across India.

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