Perfume house, Mumbai

Nefer

A heavy flacon in Egyptian-blue faience glaze with a gold cap, standing on raw lapis lazuli in hard afternoon sun

Three eaux de parfum made from what grew along the Nile, in flacons glazed like temple faience.

No. 01 · Khepri

Top
Blue lotus, bergamot
Heart
Myrrh, orris butter
Base
Atlas cedar, ambrette

Three scents,each in its own stone.

  1. Khepri flacon in lapis-blue glaze on a slab of raw lapis lazuli, hard sun on a white wall
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    Khepri

    Lapis glaze

    First light over the river. Blue lotus opening on cool stone, with myrrh underneath.

    Top
    Blue lotus, bergamot
    Heart
    Myrrh, orris butter
    Base
    Atlas cedar, ambrette
    ₹ 9,80050 ml eau de parfum
  2. Isis flacon in turquoise faience glaze on a grey-green granite block
    02

    Isis

    Faience glaze

    Green and watery. Papyrus stems, crushed lotus leaf and a clean musk that stays close.

    Top
    Papyrus, galbanum
    Heart
    Lotus leaf, neroli
    Base
    White musk, vetiver
    ₹ 9,80050 ml eau de parfum
  3. Ra flacon in translucent carnelian glass on white alabaster, red light in its shadow
    03

    Ra

    Carnelian glass

    Noon at Karnak. Saffron and frankincense over sun-hot stone, warm until the next morning.

    Top
    Saffron, pink pepper
    Heart
    Frankincense, Taif rose
    Base
    Labdanum, oud accord
    ₹ 12,60050 ml eau de parfum

Not sure yet? The discovery set holds all three in 2 ml vials for ₹ 1,450, and the full amount comes off your first flacon.

One flacon,
three glazes.

Khepri · lapisIsis · faience

Each bottle is thrown and glazed in Khurja, then fired twice. No two glazes settle the same way.

Lotus, myrrh, saffron.Bought from the people who grow them.

A blue water lily lying on wet blue slate
Blue lotusAbsolute from Nymphaea caerulea, grown in ponds near Luxor
Tears of red-amber myrrh resin on lapis stone
MyrrhResin tapped by hand in Somaliland, distilled in Grasse
Dried saffron threads on white alabaster and a blue glazed tile
SaffronThreads from Pampore, Kashmir, tinctured for six weeks
ScentTopHeartBaseLasts
KhepriBlue lotus, bergamotMyrrh, orris butterAtlas cedar, ambrette7 to 9 hours
IsisPapyrus, galbanumLotus leaf, neroliWhite musk, vetiver7 to 9 hours
RaSaffron, pink pepperFrankincense, Taif roseLabdanum, oud accord10 to 12 hours
A figure in a lapis-blue robe walking toward white chalk rocks in Egypt's White Desert

Made forhard light.

Nefer means beautiful in the old language. The house was started in 2019 by a perfumer who grew up between Bombay and Alexandria.

Wear iton warm skin.

  1. WarmApply after a bath, while the skin is still warm. Wrists, throat, the inside of the elbow.
  2. PressTwo sprays, then press. Rubbing breaks the lotus top note before it has opened.
  3. WaitGive it ten minutes. The resin comes through once the citrus has gone.

Bring the flacon back when it is empty. We refill it at the atelier for ₹ 6,200 and re-polish the cap.

Hands lifting the gold cap off a blue faience flacon over a lapis-blue tray of lotus petals

Smell it beforeyou buy it.

MumbaiNefer Atelier14 Rampart Row, Kala GhodaTue to Sun, 11 am to 8 pm. Refills here.
New DelhiDhoop & DaughtersKalka Das Marg, MehrauliFull collection and discovery sets.
BengaluruRaintree ApothecaryLavelle RoadKhepri and Isis.
CairoMaison Hathor26th of July St, ZamalekFull collection.
OnlineShips across IndiaThree to five days, insured.Free over ₹ 5,000. Samples with every order.

New batches and atelier evenings in Mumbai. Nothing else.

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