~ The house Kannauj · Mumbai
We bottle
air.
SAANS means breath. We started it to make perfume you can feel arrive and leave, the way a good breath does.
Kannauj
A small town on the Ganga that has made perfume for over a thousand years. Roses, vetiver and earth are still distilled here in copper, over wood fire, into sandalwood oil. Our atelier sits in the old perfume bazaar, two doors from the stills.
The still
The deg is a copper pot, the bhapka a receiving vessel cooled in water. Steam carries the scent from one to the other for up to fourteen days. Nothing about it is fast, and nothing about it has been improved on.
The hands
In Mumbai our perfumers take those attars and build them into modern perfume: lighter on the skin, longer in the air, and safe for everyday wear. Each perfume goes through about two hundred trials before it gets a name.
The promise
One bottle design, made to be refilled. Small batches you can trace by number. A sample before every full bottle, because you should never have to guess at a scent.
Four perfumes, one bottle.