Four Eau de Toilette sprays, four fragrance chapters in the story of Scandinavia.
Each chapter, locally known as ‘kapitel’, echoes the chronology of our own twenty year journey across Scandinavia by reinterpreting four adventures precious to life in the north.
Kapitel 1: Boreal calm
Understanding Scandinavia starts with the forests. That’s why the fragrance theme for the first chapter in our Eau de Toilette collection selects itself.
Inspired by our first fragrance, SKOG, ‘Boreal calm’ evokes timbered halls of towering sentinels and the sheltered stillness found beneath endless canopies of deepest green.
50ml, 30ml
Ref: Evergreen fir
Kapitel 4: Island solitude
‘Island solitude’ harks back to our early days of exploring glittering Scandinavian waterways under sail, of archipelagos akin to giant’s stepping stones, navigating with no fixed destination, and encountering rocky shadows to escape upon.
A memoir of gliding through the shallows, bow gently coming to rest on the pebbly shore, the slippery touch of damp rock moss underfoot, and the fragrant green embrace of gnarled crabapple and dog rose.
50ml, 30ml
Ref: Marine floral
Kapitel 12: Freedom to roam
‘Freedom to roam’ reflects an ancient Scandinavian law and an open invitation to explore all corners of the mighty peninsula provided only footsteps are left behind.
It’s a chronicle of journeys into the highlands and wildernesses along the remote northerly borders, foraging for herbs and berries, and hiking heather-lined trails above the tree line with only the stars for company.
50ml, 30ml
Ref: Green aromatic
Kapitel 17: Remote refrain
‘Remote refrain’ is our latest chapter, inspired by a return trip to Hardangerfjord during spring blossom last year, and of following the orchard-lined fruit trail that meanders from brackish shore to forest edge and back again.
Written as a sonnet to fresh pear, its delicate white flowers and the subtle honey scent of their pollen, carefully wrapped inside the sensory amphitheatre of fjordland and accented by the watery reverb of its surrounding falls.
50ml, 30ml
Ref: Remote refrain
Our Kapitel 4 film features an extract from the book ‘Enten-Eller’ by Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher and author (1813-1855). Full original version below:
Skulle jeg ønske mig noget,
da ville jeg ikke ønske mig rigdom eller magt,
men mulighedernes lidenskab.
Det øje som overalt,
evigt ungt,
evigt brændende ser muligheder.
Nydelsen skuffer,
Muligheden ikke.
Our Kapitel 12 film features an extract from the Swedish poem ‘Låt fjällvinden smeka kinden’ by Paulus Utsi, Sami poet (1918-1975). Full original version below:
Låt fjällvinden smeka kinden
Låt regn skölja ansiktet
Låt fjällvind blåsa hjärtat rent
Kom och se Lekfulla ljuset
Och lysande Himmelsstöttan
Kom, lek med fjällvind
Var inte rädd. Ge dig iväg långt
Var inte rädd. Vind visar väg!
Låt fjällvinden smeka kinden
Kom!
Our Kapitel 17 film features an extract from the poem ‘Det er den draumen’ by Olav H. Hauge, Norwegian horticulturalist and poet (1908-1994). Full original version below:
Det er den draumen me ber på
at noko vedunderleg skal skje,
at det må skje —
at tidi skal opna seg
at hjarta skal opna seg
at dører skal opna seg
at berget skal opna seg
at kjeldor skal springa —
at draumen skal opna seg,
at me ei morgonstund skal glida
inn på ein våg me ikkje har visst um.
The Olav H. Hauge Centre sits on the shores of Hardangerfjord at Ulvik.