{"id":9180,"date":"2025-09-09T05:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T05:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/9180\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T05:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T05:17:08","slug":"timothy-han-unveils-imprint-fragrances-inspired-by-classic-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/9180\/","title":{"rendered":"Timothy Han Unveils Imprint Fragrances, Inspired by Classic Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tLONDON<\/a> \u2014 What does literature smell like? There are probably as many answers as there are books, and the perfumer Timothy Han<\/a> has a few of his own.<\/p>\n

\n\tHan is making a comeback with a collection of perfumes inspired by the \u201cmood\u201d of books he believes have impacted culture and society over the last 150 years.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe collection is called Imprint, and the fragrances are packaged in boxes resembling paperback books, with original artwork on the cover. The boxes are designed to be collected, kept and displayed, and can be shelved sideways, like books.<\/p>\n

\n\tHan refers to Imprint as a \u201cperfume publishing house,\u201d with stories written in scent \u201cthat unfold on your skin like pages in a novel.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe debut collection features six fragrances named after the book titles: Against Nature, by Joris-Karl Huysmans; She Came to Stay, by Simone de Beauvoir; On the Road, by Jack Kerouac; The Decay of the Angel, by Yukio Mishima; Nadja, by Andr\u00e9 Breton, and Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tImprint\u2019s On the Road fragrance inspired by the Jack Kerouac novel.<\/p>\n

\n\tThey will launch at Dover Street Market<\/a> Paris<\/a> in late October, priced at 164 pounds for a 50-ml. bottle, while the website is set to go live soon for preorders. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tHan, who earlier in his career worked in the design studio with John Galliano, Issey Miyake and Koji Tatsuno, will be a familiar name to many. He had an eponymous line of candles, and later fragrances, which Han shelved during the pandemic. His scents were sold at places including Browns<\/a>, Corso Como, Liberty and Mr Porter.<\/p>\n

\n\tHe also works on bespoke projects, and created the scent for The Peninsula London\u2019s collection of in-room bath products as part of its \u201cBest of British\u201d partnership scheme, as well as for Lady Gaga and high net worth private clients.<\/p>\n

\n\tHan isn\u2019t a trained perfumer \u2014 he studied architecture in London<\/a> \u2014 but he works closely with noses to create scents which can strike people as \u201cunsettling, polarizing and unusual \u2014 and that\u2019s what I like,\u201d he said during an interview.<\/p>\n

\n\tHan is not bound to the traditional array, or hierarchy, of notes, and thinks instead of the mood he wants to conjure.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tImprint\u2019s Against Nature fragrance, inspired by Joris-Karl Huysmans\u2019 book.<\/p>\n

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\n\tWith On the Road, he wanted smells that evoked a trip across America: \u201cburnt rubber, the hot tarmac of New York City in July, midwestern wheat fields, jazz, whisky and the Pacific Coast,\u201d Han said. By contrast, She Came to Stay has a more domestic air, with notes of basil, lemon, vetiver and unexpected jolts of clove and oak moss.<\/p>\n

\n\tHan said he wanted The Decay of the Angel to capture \u201cbirth, death and reincarnation, with the smell of sex, sweat and ash, and intensity of flowers that have been around too long.\u201d It\u2019s actually not as dark as it sounds, and smells more like freshly cut flowers.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn Against Nature, Han played with Huysmans\u2019 obsession with adding an artificial patina to the natural world. It\u2019s his first synthetic scent and has \u201cbright green sapling notes mixed with metal, lacquer and blood.\u201d Heart of Darkness has the more natural scent of \u201cdamp river banks, wet leaves, coal and ivory.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHan plans to build his library of fragrances and create a \u201ccultural platform.\u201d There are plans for a book club, collaborations with writers and artists, and \u201cunusual activations.\u201d He sees the website as part-magazine, part-library and a platform for essays, interviews, recommendations \u201cand reflections on scent and storytelling.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON \u2014 What does literature smell like? There are probably as many answers as there are books, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[288,9614,9615,93,61,60,99,1838,9616],"class_list":{"0":"post-9180","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-browns","10":"tag-dover-street-market","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-london","15":"tag-paris","16":"tag-wwdbeautyinc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}