Our story

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.

The making

We started small — with the perfumes we’d only make if we believed in every drop. Oud and rose at dusk. Warm amber on a winter evening. Incense in a temple at first light. Coffee, cocoa, the dream you don’t want to wake from. Each one took its own slow 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

How we work

Three things we don’t compromise on.

01

Hand-poured

Every bottle is filled and labelled by us. No outsourcing, no mass production line.

02

Sourced in India

Most ingredients come from regions we've visited. We know the people who grow them.

03

No new launches

If we add a fifth scent, it will take a year. We're in no hurry.