Neandertal

Neandertal is an artistic response to challenging the status quo and humanity’s innately egocentric view of the universe and our place in it. From the first hominids to walk on earth to our unknown future in the space era, Neandertal explores fundamental existential questions like, “Where do we come from?” and “Where are we going?” by attempting to understand the human experience from outside ourselves. As a first step in this exploration, artist and founder Kentaro Yamada created Neandertal perfume as a way to explore the analogies between the lingering echoes of our past and that of olfactory resonance. The results are contemporary, highly original, and experimental fragrance structures, free from conventional and traditional perfumery standards.

The uniquely shaped bottles are based on a series of flint knapped hand axes from Norfolk in the United Kingdom. Stone tools like these have been used by mankind for over a million years and are one of our oldest and most ubiquitous design objects. The stoneware bottles (handmade by Kentaro Yamada) are slip cast using these flint knapped hand axes, then fired and vitrified at over 1400 °C in the kiln. Each 90ml stoneware bottle is uniquely numbered digitally using an NFC chip to ensure its provenance. Scan your bottle using the Neandertal App on any NFC-enabled Android device to see more information. Glass bottles are created using state-of-the-art laser 3D scanning and printing technology.