The Cosmology
The Structural Framework Behind Every Formula.
The Taíno organized their universe into three vertically stacked realms and mapped four elemental forces across them. This was not mythology. It was a classification system built from centuries of astronomical observation at sites like Caguana. We use it as the architectural blueprint for every composition in the house.
The Four Strata
The Architecture of Caguana
Four strata drawn from the built environment of the Caguana Ceremonial Center. Sky, court, root, and the resolved object. Each stratum maps directly to a layer of the olfactory architecture.
The Sky
Turey
The celestial realm. Turey governs immediacy, volatility, and first contact. In our formulations, Turey materials are fractionally distilled top notes engineered for maximum impact and rapid evaporation. They strike, announce, and clear the airspace for the composition below. At Caguana, the monoliths track the first visible rise of the Pleiades. Turey is that moment of contact.
The Court
Batey
The ceremonial center. The batey is the stone plaza at the heart of Caguana, bounded by carved monoliths, where areítos, ceremonies, and transformations took place. In our formulations, Batey materials are heart notes processed through molecular encapsulation, creating a prolonged emotional core that holds the physical center of the composition for hours. The active, dynamic ground between sky and root.
The Root
Coaybay
The ancestral foundation. Coaybay is what remains when everything volatile has departed. We deploy macrocyclic musks, heavy resins, and chemically anchored woods to physically bond base materials to the skin. This layer does not project outward. It persists. An immovable foundation that lasts into the next day. The stones at Caguana were pulled from the Tanamá River and carved to face the ancestral realm beneath the earth.
The Resolved Object
Cemí
The fourth dimension: time itself. A cemí in Taíno culture is a physical object engineered to concentrate and hold spiritual force. It does not become a cemí through carving alone. It requires ritual activation and temporal process. In our methodology, Cemí is the mandatory anaerobic maturation: four lunar weeks in dark glass columns where the three spatial strata bond, stabilize, and lock into their final resolved relationship. Without Cemí, you have ingredients. With it, you have architecture.
Turey strikes. Batey transforms. Coaybay endures. Cemí resolves.
The Four Elements
Fire, Water, Earth, Air
Four elemental forces mapped across the four strata of Caguana. Each element governs a distinct family of materials and dictates the engineering approach for its compositions.
Fire
(Anacaona)Thermal Radiation • Sustained Projection • Ceremony • Chemical Bonding
Sustained thermal radiation. Fire compositions use chemical bonding to keep volatile spice molecules active and projecting for hours beyond their natural lifespan. The ceremony at the central batey. Heat that holds its ground.
Fragrances
Anacaona
Water
(Atabey)Molecular Transparency • Mineral Clarity • Depth • Weight
Heavy molecular transparency. Water compositions deploy mineral accords and iris absolutes processed for extreme clarity. The goal is weight without opacity. Depth you can see through. The Tanamá River pulled into a bottle.
Fragrances
Atabey
Earth
(Yucahú)Dense Foundation • Fixative Chemistry • Skin Bonding • Permanence
Dense, immovable foundation. Earth compositions anchor vetiver, oud, and sandalwood through fixative chemistry that physically bonds the molecules to skin substrate. The root system of Caguana. Nothing decorative. Everything structural.
Fragrances
Yucahú
Air
(Juracán)Extreme Volatility • Atmospheric Clearing • Vapor Pressure • Velocity
Extreme volatility. Air compositions are engineered to clear every competing signal from the airspace. Fractionated citruses and synthetic ozone molecules at maximum vapor pressure. The hurricane that arrives not with sound but with scent.
Fragrances
Juracán
The Pantheon
The Spirits Behind the Collection
Each composition is named for a Taíno force. The name is not decorative. It defines the engineering brief.