A small house,
made slowly.
Maun (मौन) is a Sanskrit word for the kind of silence that’s chosen — not absence, but stillness. We named the house after it because the perfumes we wanted to make were never going to shout.
We started with four fragrances because we only had four worth making. A garden window in the morning. The first hour after waking. The hush after rain. A long weekend by the coast. Each one took a year of steeping, smelling, throwing away, beginning again.
We work out of a small studio in India, with raw materials sourced from across the country — sandalwood from Karnataka, vetiver from Tamil Nadu, jasmine from outside Madurai. Everything is blended by hand, in small batches, with the time it takes.
— Aman, founder
Three things we don’t compromise on.
Hand-poured
Every bottle is filled and labelled by us. No outsourcing, no mass production line.
Sourced in India
Most ingredients come from regions we've visited. We know the people who grow them.
No new launches
If we add a fifth scent, it will take a year. We're in no hurry.