The houses

Perfume District is a counter, not a single label. These are the houses we stock, and what each one is actually good at.

Bold African royal scents

Founded in Ghana, MacBancy builds its fragrances around the continent's own materials: rare herbs, spices and botanicals, worked into scents that carry a story. The house is openly trying to build an African fragrance hub, and the range runs from the Spirit of Timbuktu line through to boxed gift collections.

16 fragrances

Golden Trail, Coercive Magnet, Colors of Niani

Marsandi bottles its eau de parfum under a leaping-cheetah mark and works in three lines. Golden Trail runs to three expressions in a squat apothecary flacon with a contrast cap, each boxed with its own desert artwork. Coercive Magnet is marked with two crowned faces meeting and held in a tall rectangular flacon with a black and gold cap. Colors of Niani is sold as boxed sets rather than single bottles.

10 fragrances

Collaboration-led, out of Mars.Retail

Mars Dvsn grew out of Mars.Retail and works by collaboration: an idea becomes a product with another house rather than alone. UnCut Passion, made with Marsandi, is the first release, an extrait de parfum in a tall apothecary flacon.

1 fragrance

MacBancy Perfumes

Marsandi Perfumes

Mars Dvsn