SERIES ONE — ARRIVING
THE ILLUSION THAT LEAVES A MARK.
NO CONCESSIONS.
GENSŌ — 幻想
There is an hour with no name. The moon has not quite left, and the sun has not quite arrived. Whatever you notice in it you can never prove afterward: a shape at the window, a colour the sky is not supposed to make, the sense of being watched by something patient. GENSŌ was made for that hour. We were not trying to describe it. We were trying to keep it.
On the face of the bottle, a crescent moon and a sun share a single frame. Between them run gold botanical lines, drawn by hand rather than printed to look that way. Night and day, kept on the same piece of glass, held together the way they are held together by the people who are awake at the border of both. The bottle does not settle the argument. It carries both at once.
Two hundred will exist, and no more. Each one is engraved with its own number, because ink can be talked out of the truth and a cut in glass cannot. When the two-hundredth leaves our hands the edition closes for good, and the drawings retire with it. What is left is the thing we wanted left behind: an illusion that leaves a mark.
0 units · engraved · never repeated
THE OBJECT — IN DETAIL
THE SCENT
Opens.
Cold and a little electric, like the air just before rain reaches the ground.
Deepens.
Then warmth comes up from underneath, the way a stone holds heat long after the sun has gone. Below that, leather. Not the cheap kind, but something that feels like it was always down there holding the rest up.
Stays.
It settles into amber and earth, with a sweetness kept well below the surface. None of it asks for attention. It just stays.
Holds.
Eight hours on skin, longer on a collar or a scarf. It walks into a room a step ahead of you and is still there once you have gone. One spray does it. In this country's heat it opens up rather than giving out, so wear it on the hottest days, not in spite of them.
100ml · Extrait de Parfum · Hand-assembled Crafted in Pakistan 200 units · Series One
RESERVE — SERIES ONE
Take your number.
TAKUMI — GENSŌ
001/200 · 100ml · Extrait de Parfum
Rs. 14,999PKR
166 of 200 remain.
One reservation per holder. GENSŌ is numbered, so the one you get is yours alone.
- Secure checkout
- Delivery within 14 days after the pre-order window closes.
- Individually numbered, hand-assembled
QUESTIONS
TAKUMI GENSŌ is Series One from TAKUMI, a Pakistani fragrance house. It is an extrait de parfum, 100ml, made in a run of 200 individually numbered bottles. It is the second thing we have released, and it carries on from Series Zero rather than repeating it. The idea behind it is the hour between night and day, the one nobody has a good name for.
GENSŌ is dark and warm, with real structure to it. It opens cold and mineral, like the air right before rain. After a while warmth rises through it, the way a stone gives off heat once the sun has gone, and a leather note comes up underneath. It dries down to amber and earth with a faint sweetness buried low. The short version people tend to use is a garden at the hour that has no name.
GENSŌ gets stronger in heat instead of fading. Plenty of fragrances thin out or turn sour once it is past forty degrees; this one was built to open up in exactly that kind of warmth. A Lahore afternoon or a humid Karachi evening pushes it rather than killing it. Expect around eight hours on skin and longer on fabric. The heat is part of how it works, not something to hide from.
GENSŌ is 100ml of extrait de parfum, which is the most concentrated format there is. On most skin it runs about eight hours, and longer than that on clothing. That is well past what you would get from an eau de parfum or an eau de toilette.
One spray, on the pulse points. Your skin does the rest of the work, since the scent is built to bloom off body heat. Do not reapply through the day, and do not rub your wrists together. Let it develop on its own.
GENSŌ costs Rs. 14,999 (PKR), and delivery anywhere in Pakistan is free.
There are 200 bottles in total, and each one is engraved with its own number, 001 through 200. During the pre-order you are assigned your number once payment clears, and no two people get the same one. Once all 200 are spoken for, GENSŌ is closed. There is no second run.
Yes. It was made to be worn by anyone, and we do not split it by gender in the formula or the marketing.
Because each bottle is numbered to you, we do not take returns on numbered orders. If yours turns up damaged or not as it should be, write to us directly and we will sort it out.
Delivery is free everywhere in Pakistan. While the pre-order is open, reservations are paid online through PayFast only, which is what lets us tie a specific number to you. Once the pre-order closes, Cash on Delivery opens up for normal orders.
Pre-orders ship within 14 days of the window closing. After that, standard orders arrive in about five to seven days.
If you hold a Series Zero bottle, you hear about GENSŌ number selection before anyone else. Refills for Series Zero are still handled separately on the Refill page. Past the early heads-up the two editions run independently, so owning one neither blocks nor requires the other.
Yes. TAKUMI is a fragrance house based in Pakistan, working from a Japanese idea of craft, and everything we make comes out in small numbered editions.
You can reach us by email at voice@takumi.limited, on WhatsApp at +92 300 5TAKUMI (825864), or on Instagram at @takumi.limited.