The house
Byredo was founded in 2006 in Stockholm (Sweden) by Ben Gorham, a former basketball player of mixed Indian-Canadian heritage. The house's founding concept was built around personal memory and cultural hybridity: compositions drawing on Gorham's own biographical experiences and on the sensory landscape of places and people that marked his trajectory. The name derives from an old English dialect term meaning "by re-do," suggesting repetition and reminiscence.
The house works primarily with Jerome Epinette as in-house perfumer, who has signed the majority of the Byredo catalogue. The creative direction remains closely tied to Gorham's personal brief, which tends toward highly abstract, minimalist constructions with unusual accords that avoid obvious floral or oriental conventions. Byredo was acquired by Puig in 2022.
On Osmetheca, Byredo is represented by four fragrances: Gypsy Water (2008), Bal d'Afrique (2009), Mojave Ghost (2014) and Vanilla Antique (released as part of the Night Veils collection, 2022). All four are signed by Jerome Epinette and document the range of Byredo's olfactive directions from transparent woodsy constructions to dense vanilla-centered compositions.
Perfumes on Osmetheca
The following Byredo fragrances are documented with full profiles on Osmetheca. Each entry includes launch year, perfumer attribution and olfactive family.
| Year | Perfume | Perfumer | Olfactive family |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Gypsy Water | Jerome Epinette | Woody fresh pine incense |
| 2009 | Bal d'Afrique | Jerome Epinette | Floral woody African marigold |
| 2014 | Mojave Ghost | Jerome Epinette | Woody musky desert floral |
| 2022 | Vanilla Antique | Jerome Epinette | Warm vanilla woody amber |
Sources
Vanilla Antique corresponds to the Night Veils collection release of 2022.