Garage

Warsztat

JMP Artisan Perfumes 2025

Łukasz asks for his leather rag. His voice booms from the oil-smeared pans beneath a Syrenka in the workshop pit. Circular saws cutting through sheet metal spray glistening sparks every now and then. Always the same job, every vacation. You’re hiding in a huge tower. Tires for Krajenka’s tractors, new rubber. The floor shimmers with old gasoline. You’re about to run out of oxygen. It’s escaping you like air from bicycle tubes onto the tar on your fingers. You stare at the rags in your hands. This stuff has come back to life, pulsing like warm skin and smoldering secretly—hand-rolled, damp bark from rain-soaked soils. Łukasz’s voice echoes off the musty walls in the tire storage vaults. Eventually, he’ll find both of us.
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The range of fragrances offered by Polish perfumer Jakub Pietrynka is quite unusual. His handcrafted scents range from almost natural depictions of fir forests (“Fir of the Dark”), reminiscent of early Pinewards, to significantly more synthetic variations of these (“Fir of the Light”), all the way to thoroughly industrial-sounding scents like “Garage.”
The scent of new tires and bicycle inner tubes—already mentioned in the statements below—is ever-present from the very beginning. At first, gasoline still shimmers over the photorealistic rubber, before the scent of metal sawdust, fresh tar, and oil-smeared leather flares up within it. The latter seems to grow increasingly warmer and smokier (birch tar in castoreum) and eventually gives way to synthetic smoky-leathery notes and hints of damp bark (oud) on the one hand, and musty cellar patchouli with aromas of geosmin—the terpenes of the earth after rain—on the other. After several hours the scenery turns into a smoky pine-forest. However, the strikingly authentic scent of leather, lubricating oil, and rubber remains dominant until the very end. A magnificent experiential fragrance for those nostalgic for the workshop.

(With thanks to HasenNase)