Scents that ‘came from a memory of my grandfather’s orange trees’

For Omar Suleyman, perfume begins with a memory. “The fact that I couldn’t fly to Cyprus made me miss it even more,” says the London-based perfumer and founder of Alashiya. During the 2020 lockdown, he created his first fragrance, a jasmine-based scent called Ashera, inspired by his childhood summers on the island. “That’s when I […]