For brands & makers

We pair stories with things worth keeping.

House of DeuxPies is a cultural house of scent. Our reading room holds long-form stories on fragrance history, botanical culture and olfactory memory. Each story is an opportunity for a pairing.

What a pairing is

One object, ingredient or fragrance — in editorial context alongside a story.

The story gives the object meaning. The object gives the story a physical form. Each edition is announced to our subscribers and sold through the site.

A story about the medieval pomander, paired with an antique specimen.

A story about vanilla from Réunion, paired with a vanilla study from a raw material house.

A story about tobacco and ritual, paired with a botanical candle.

A story about a medicinal herb, paired with a grower's tea.

Who reads us

Our readers come for depth. They are not browsing — they are reading. When they encounter a pairing, they find it through a story they already care about.

We are also building a living archive of human scent memory through our research programme — one conversation at a time.

We are looking for

Fragrance houses

Whose work intersects with a specific story in the archive.

Raw material producers

Distillers, growers, foragers — whose ingredients we already write about.

Antique dealers

Whose pieces have a story the archive already holds.

Object & material makers

Whose work touches scent, ritual, botany or material culture — candles, ceramics, tools, kits, textiles.

To discuss a pairing

The right pairing has a reason to exist. It is not a sponsorship. It is a collaboration with a story at its centre.

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