Escentric Molecules has spent years making the fragrance world reconsider what a single molecule can do, building a devoted following around lab-born ingredients like Iso E Super, a compound created at IFF in 1973 that spent decades working quietly behind the scenes in perfumery, giving compositions a velvety, enveloping quality that most wearers could sense but never quite name, until Geza Schoen pulled it into the foreground in large concentrations and built the now cult-cl

Girgaum's lanes have always held more than the city gives them credit for, and 47-A Khotachi Wadi, a 19th-century Portuguese-style house tucked into one of Mumbai's most storied heritage pockets, is hosting the Hamari Virasat textile exhibition from April 25 to May 10, 2026, bringing together 75 handmade textile artworks that mark 75 years of the Indian Constitution through the hands of makers who have spent lifetimes understanding what its ideals actually feel like at the le

Ardhi Looms has always been drawn to what happens at the beginning of a rug rather than its end, and the Hands of Ardhi collection makes that orientation explicit, rooting itself in the rhythm of the loom and in the quiet, sustained skill of the artisans whose steady hands guide the weaving long before any finished piece finds its place within a living space. Handwoven carpets carry something that speed and machinery cannot produce, the subtle variations in texture, the quiet

Lotus Arts de Vivre has long understood that the most compelling objects in a room are the ones that carry a life of their own, and its animal stool collection makes that case through woven rattan, hand-stitched cowhide leather, iron reinforcement, and metal detailing in a series of pieces where the stool as a form is simply the starting point for something considerably more layered. The Woven Rattan Elephant Stool is the most immediately tactile of the four, handcrafted in w