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A room can be shaped by scent as much as by anything you can see in it, and this collection draws on three very different traditions of doing it.

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Kunjudo has hand-rolled incense on Awaji Island, Japan, since 1893, dyeing each stick with natural pigment rather than synthetic colour - which is why it burns down to a soft grey ash instead of black. Its Sen incense is built around hinoki, Japanese cypress, the scent of temples and traditional bathhouses long before anyone thought to bottle it.

Côté Bougie takes a different route: raffia-wrapped candles and diffusers, hand-crocheted in Morocco over a recycled-glass base, filled with fragrances composed in Grasse and named for the artisans and villages behind them - Tanneur, Raphia, Tamegroute.

C.Atherley works the English side of the same idea - a single flower, geranium, distilled and blended into candles, room sprays and reed diffusers from a greenhouse in Gloucestershire, the whole range named for the founder's grandmother.

Awaji Island cypress, Moroccan raffia, an English geranium garden: none of it manufactured to a formula, all of it slow by design.

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Fratelli Bonvini

Fratelli Bonvini has been a stationery shop and printworks on Via Tagliamento in Milan since 1909, kept just as it was by the typographers who took it over in 2014. Its archive of type, ornament and printing blocks now supplies notebooks, greeting cards and pencils, with covers by Milan illustrators and by Cabaret Typographie, the letterpress collective in residence at the shop. Exclusive to Australia.

Cabaret Typographie prints

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