Nosu is a collaboration between creative duo, artist Lucy Webster and self-taught perfumer Jacob Grainger. Each perfume is designed and handmade by us in small batches in our lab in North London, blending the finest natural and synthetic materials. Every fragrance is accompanied by an original artwork, inspired by the textures and themes within the scent. Together, these elements blur the boundaries between the visual and olfactory worlds, offering a sensory experience that invites you to also see and feel the essence of each perfume.
As an independent perfume house, we have the freedom to create without constraints, exploring subjects as specific or abstract as we desire. Our genderless perfumes are centred around high doses of unusual and rare natural materials, complemented by synthetic molecules that enhance and amplify these distinctive notes. Similarly, the artworks draw on diverse techniques and materials, each chosen to reflect and add a more tangible dimension to the scent. For the first three artworks Lucy’s techniques included photography, inkjet printing and chemigrams.
‘Nosu’ is an old English word for ‘nose’ and our bottle lid, made in collaboration with french artist and designer, Clémence Frot*, is inspired by abstract noses to create a tactile shape. The mirrored surface is intended to draw you in, as well as show the impact the wearer also has on the perfume. All of our lids are 3D printed in Europe, before being hand-finished in the UK.
For the sake of transparency and for those of a curious nature, we provide the percentages of naturals and list the natural ingredients used in our perfumes. This can be found on the product pages of each scent. Our perfumes are free from parabens, phthalates, polycyclic musk and artificial colours. We never test our perfumes on animals.
