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Kafka On The Shore

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FÀP ESSAYS · AROMATIC RENDERING
02 / 2020

KAFKA ON
THE SHORE

Source — Haruki Murakami
Perfumer — David Chieze
Medium — Literature
Status — Available

»A spirit forest unlocked through a doorway of a stone — books whisper through mystic woods.«

Published in 2002, Kafka on the Shore is one of Murakami's most celebrated metaphysical journeys — a teenage boy fleeing prophecy, an old man who speaks with cats, dreamlike passages where consciousness, identity, and fate blur into magical realism. Libraries hold secrets; forests open into other worlds; a stone unlocks a doorway that should not exist. The fragrance translates this territory — the dust of old books, the haze of woods at dusk, amber warmth holding something strange and unresolved.

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MATERIALS
lavender, old book accord, iris, birch tar, amber, musk, patchouli, cedarwood, oakwood, leather, vanilla

Each bottle carries its own artwork. Request a preference at checkout.
Arrives in its handcrafted box from Hokkaido.

Prefer to begin smaller? → DISCOVERY
The full story lives in the archive. → ARCHIVE

FÀP ESSAYS · AROMATIC RENDERING
02 / 2020

KAFKA ON
THE SHORE

Source — Haruki Murakami
Perfumer — David Chieze
Medium — Literature
Status — Available

»A spirit forest unlocked through a doorway of a stone — books whisper through mystic woods.«

Published in 2002, Kafka on the Shore is one of Murakami's most celebrated metaphysical journeys — a teenage boy fleeing prophecy, an old man who speaks with cats, dreamlike passages where consciousness, identity, and fate blur into magical realism. Libraries hold secrets; forests open into other worlds; a stone unlocks a doorway that should not exist. The fragrance translates this territory — the dust of old books, the haze of woods at dusk, amber warmth holding something strange and unresolved.

ATMOSPHERIC BOOKS · WOODS · AMBER

MATERIALS
lavender, old book accord, iris, birch tar, amber, musk, patchouli, cedarwood, oakwood, leather, vanilla

Each bottle carries its own artwork. Request a preference at checkout.
Arrives in its handcrafted box from Hokkaido.

Prefer to begin smaller? → DISCOVERY
The full story lives in the archive. → ARCHIVE

In 1978, Haruki Murakami was twenty-nine and running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo. One April day, the impulse to write a novel came to him suddenly while watching a baseball game. That first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, won a new writers’ award and was published the following year. More followed, including A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, but it was Norwegian Wood, published in 1987, which turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon. His books became bestsellers, were translated into many languages, including English, and the door was thrown wide open to Murakami’s unique and addictive fictional universe.