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.
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.
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.