Fragrances by Sahil Tayal · The House

THE
VENUSIAN
ARTS

Human experience, bottled.

Enter the House. See what selects you.

Don't force the compatibility. The right fragrance should feel less like a purchase and more like recognition.

The Venusian Arts?

Perfume has always been more than chemistry. It can be memory, attraction, atmosphere, identity, ritual and suggestion.

The Venusian Arts is my attempt to work with that deeper layer deliberately: take a human tension or experience, give it language, then translate that idea into a fragrance.

The result isn't a collection of fragrances organised only by notes. It's a collection organised by states of being.

The idea gets you curious.
The fragrance has to select you.

That's why none of these fragrances are meant to be forced. A beautiful concept cannot rescue a scent that doesn't belong on your skin.

Smell it. Wear it. Give it time. If something clicks, you'll know. If it doesn't, walk away.

Some people come for perfume. Some come looking for a room that feels familiar.

The House is a collection of ideas made physical. Enter slowly. Find the room that catches you.

A surreal architectural house containing many distinct rooms beneath a central Venus statue, surrounded by a moonlit landscape.
The House One house · many territories

Don't see yourself in a room?

If you want something personal, describe a mood, memory, person, place, personality or feeling and I'll translate the brief into a custom fragrance.

₹1,999 50ml custom perfume

Want your own room? Describe the mood, memory, person or feeling. WhatsApp Sahil directly.

A door for the curious.

Some people arrive looking for perfume. Some arrive looking for something they can't quite name.

Enter 11:11 →

Different rooms.
Same house.

Eight different territories of human experience. One house exploring what happens when an idea gets a smell.

Don't choose a room because you think you should.

Walk through. Read the cue. Notice what catches you. The House isn't here to tell you who you are. It's here to see what you recognise.

01

LIQUID COURAGE™

Action bias

You don't need courage. You need to move. A unisex fragrance built around the moment when thinking has done enough and movement becomes the answer.

02

BOUNDARIES™

Distance · access · self-possession

Close enough to notice. Not close enough to own. A fragrance about knowing where you end and everyone else begins — warmth without automatic access.

03

CONNECTION™

Intimacy · openness

A feminine fragrance from a man's perspective: an exploration of the desire to be understood, to let someone closer, and to risk genuine connection.

04

BAD BITCH ENERGY™

Confidence · audacity

A fragrance built around the state where you stop asking permission to occupy the room. Less performance of confidence; more permission to act like you already have it.

05

WINGMAN™

Belonging · social courage

We've got you covered till you form your own tribe. A unisex fragrance for the awkward middle — when you haven't found your people yet, but you're ready to walk into the room.

06

MAIN CHARACTER ENERGY™

Presence · agency · self-authorship

The moment the monkey stops behaving like an extra in somebody else's story. A fragrance about occupying your own life with enough presence to become the centre of your own narrative.

07

LOLLIPOP™

Sweetness · temptation · trouble

It looks innocent. The monkey knows better. A playful gourmand built around desire disguised as something harmless — candy brightness over creamy, vanillic and softly musky warmth.

08

LOCUS OF CONTROL™

Agency · responsibility · action

Where does the monkey believe the steering wheel is? A fragrance about the difference between waiting for life to happen and recognising the part of the situation where your own action can actually make a difference.

These aren't
characters.
They're cues.

LIQUID COURAGE™ cues movement.
BOUNDARIES™ cues self-possession.
CONNECTION™ cues openness.
BAD BITCH ENERGY™ cues audacity.
WINGMAN™ cues participation.
MAIN CHARACTER ENERGY™ cues presence.
LOLLIPOP™ cues temptation.
LOCUS OF CONTROL™ cues agency.

The fragrance doesn't magically create the state. It gives the wearer a sensory object around which intention can organise itself.

You don't have to buy the idea.

You only have to notice whether something in it feels familiar.

From questions
to bottles.

01 · A fascination with human behaviour

Why do humans do what they do?

My interests have moved through psychology, philosophy, identity, consciousness, work and the gap between what people say they want and what they actually do.

02 · The discovery of perfumery

Abstract questions became physical.

Perfumery gave those questions a physical medium. Materials could be smelled, combined, tested, rejected and reformulated. An idea could become an object.

03 · From mood to meaning

Bottle Your Mood.

Bottle Your Mood began from a simple proposition: describe a mood, memory, place, person or feeling, and translate the brief into fragrance.

04 · The House emerged

The concepts became territories.

Eventually the concepts became bigger than individual custom briefs. The fragrances started becoming named territories — each one a different human experience with its own language and ritual.

05 · The Venusian Arts

A house for the strange territory between us.

The name is an umbrella for this way of working: using scent, symbolism and design to explore how humans experience themselves and each other.

The Venusian Arts is one room in a larger body of work.

Sahil Tayal's work moves across fragrance, consciousness, human behaviour, identity, ideas and experiments in turning abstract questions into things people can experience.

A perfume can be a smell. It can also be a thought you can wear.

That's the territory I'm interested in. If one of these ideas feels like you, explore it. If none of them do, make your own.

The House doesn't need to fit everyone.

It only needs to be unmistakable to the people it fits.

Custom perfume · 50ml · ₹1,999 — tell me what you want it to smell like.
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