About HOUSE OF ZIGGIMAY
Sigurd Rossel is the perfumer behind House of Ziggimay. A long standing interest in fragrance turned into the work itself, and he trained at the Grasse Institute of Perfumery to learn how to do it properly rather than by guesswork. The first bottles went on sale in 2024.
The reference points are Nordic: the landscape, the old stories, and a general preference for saying less. That is where the names come from, and it is part of why these fragrances tend to sit closer to the skin than the category usually allows.
Composed and bottled in Denmark, in batches small enough that every one gets checked before it goes out.
Sigurd works mostly with wood and oud, with florals threaded through them.
Nothing here is made for men or for women. A fragrance either suits you or it does not, and that has very little to do with which shelf a shop would put it on.
Floral tea notes turn up often. They lift a composition without making it sweet, which is a hard balance to get and worth the trouble.
He prefers linear compositions: scents that hold their shape rather than turning into something else an hour in. You should still recognise what you put on this morning.
They also have to be wearable at work. A fragrance that forces itself on a room is a failure, however good it smells up close.
The ash wood cap takes its reference from Yggdrasil, the world tree in Norse myth. Ash is hard, it lasts, and the grain runs differently through every cap, so no two are quite the same.
The bottle is white crystal glass, hand polished so the clarity holds. It has some weight to it, which is deliberate.
Sourcing the wood and the glass took longer than anything else in the process. The fine mist atomiser gives an even spray, so you can put on a little without soaking the skin.