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Aesop invites you to a season of distinctly sensorial celebrations, where your fellow guests include an abundance of new Gift Kits. Discover more: https://lnkd.in/gnfCATJ7

Introducing the Tokyo Sensory Retreat    Our first-ever travel experience, curated by our local teams and friends at Design Anthology, spans the realms of craft, cuisine and architecture. We will see Tokyo through a unique lens—including via experiences that are rarely open to the public, like a private studio visit, a meal prepared in an invitation-only kitchen, or an encounter with a master craftsperson. Much like our stores, this retreat offers the chance to slow the pace, nourish all five senses, and engage in meaningful conversations.    Dedicated to documenting spaces, objects, and ideas that enrich the everyday, our long-standing collaborators at Design Anthology share our commitment to thoughtful design and cultural connection. Together, we invite you to see this metropolis anew—and as few ever do.    Tokyo  6 – 9 November https://lnkd.in/gqMKcXRH

An autumnal illumination. This Harvest festival, we reflect on the spirit of gratitude by collaborating with artist Hwang Sam-yong, whose mother-of-pearl works make use of the “Kkeun-eum-jil” technique, where finely sliced pieces are carefully assembled into intricate shapes. These pieces exhibit varying colours and textures, achieving an artistic depth born from harmony within time and chance—much like the cherished connections we celebrate this season. Discover his work at select stores across South Korea from 15 September.

Whispers in the Walls: Aesop One New Change.     Seen here during London Design Festival, this store highlights the poetics of reuse—with furnishings that would otherwise languish in storage appreciated anew.     Discover more: https://lnkd.in/eh5YFPVS

On 15 September, Aesop One New Change hosted a panel discussion: ‘Designing Stores for Present Times’. Hosted by design writer and curator Roddy Clarke, it was a thought-provoking conversation on the future of retail spaces. Our Global Retail Design Director, Marianne Lardilleux, talked with furniture designer and maker Sebastian Cox about how poetic vision and pragmatic sustainability can shape tomorrow’s stores, drawing from innovative circular design principles and time-honoured low-impact traditions. The event took place as part of London Design Festival and our own Enduring Forms installation, our first exhibit dedicated to sustainable practices in store design. Here, you can discover how we create unique retail spaces that act as odes to the neighbourhoods they inhabit—an approach that has enabled us to embed sustainability in creative ways. The exhibit will be open until 19 September at Aesop One New Change - 18 Cheapside, One New Change, London, EC2V 6AH Discover more: https://lnkd.in/erpSnJsD

Five Rooms at Galeries Lafayette Paris Haussmann    Until 16 October, the Paris department store is home to our latest poly-sensorial installation: a glimpse into the imagined daily life of an Aesop aficionado. Transportive aromas and curious objects abound in nonconformist alcoves built in part from repurposed products and packaging. Bars of soap serve as tiles, cardboard boxes stack like bricks, and pages from the Aesop Book find new purpose as wallpaper. Discover more here: https://lnkd.in/e67z2www

A new chapter unfolds in our aromatic story. New Above Us, Steorra Eau de Parfum is inspired by the sense of awe and possibility felt when looking up at a star-strewn sky. Our long-term collaborator Céline Barel, the nose behind the amber fragrance, notes, ‘Above Us, Steorra is something incandescent—hot and cold at the same time, a complex bouquet of spice—leaving a luminous trail in darkness’. A fable in fragrant form, it prompts the question: ‘shall we trust in the unknown?’ Learn more: https://lnkd.in/ecY3hi7n

From a verdant fascination—some might say ‘obsession’—for a certain essential oil that began almost thirty years ago, our Geranium Leaf Body Care range has grown into a quartet of vivifying formulations —full of evergreen appeal.   Discover more: https://lnkd.in/eBGreY5B

Whispers in the Walls: Aesop Guangzhou Dongshankou. Rooted in a sense of both place and history, a former townhouse exuding neighbourly warmth. Discover more about Aesop store design: https://lnkd.in/e32EChet

Thank you to all who attended this year’s London edition of the Aesop Queer Library, including our thought-provoking guests: Fourteen Poems shared their latest anthology, ‘Eff-able: a spicy anthology of queer crip poetry’, with readings from some of the featured authors. David Roberts discussed his approach to LGBTQIA+ history in his illustrated book ‘We Are Your Children’. Artist and writer Tourmaline and K Bailey Obazee—founder and director of the agency PRIM—discussed the role of queer literature, while an in-house session of PRIM’s book club, OKHA, gathered around Tourmaline’s biography of Marsha P. Johnson, ‘Marsha’.