Mazaj was created by two co-founders whose mixed cultural backgrounds shape the way they see and scent the world. Having first met through competitive swimming, they realized they weren’t interested in the postcard view of a place, but in the ordinary hours locals move through and whether that could be bottled as a fragrance.

Mazaj exists to translate the real, everyday life of a city into scent. Each fragrance is built as a city portrait drawn from routines and spaces: streets, apartments, transit, cafés, night walks, rather than monuments or clichés. The aim is for what you smell to feel like the city’s inner climate, the part people actually live in.