Before The World Moved Again seeks to capture a human in-between moment: the quiet pause in which you suddenly hear your own pace again. Inspired by a small Balinese scene where devotion and calmness silence the noise of the world, the fragrance carries a meditative clarity and a grounded, almost ritual depth. It is complex yet open, unfolding slowly rather than declaring itself. A scent that steadies without wanting to overwhelm. A still place in motion. Perfumer Chester Gibs composed it as a reminder that meaning rarely lies in grand gestures, but in the attention we give to life’s smallest details. This work is exactly that: a space to breathe, a moment of stillness rendered in scent.

• Opening: Breathing calm air and looking into the soft light
• Heart: Feeling Clarity, drawn into another's quiet grace
• Base: Finding groundedness in the stillness of full presence

Chester Gibbs

Chester approaches scent the way some people approach memory : by following the quiet thread it leaves behind. What began with bottles on a shelf became a way of seeing perfumes as colours, moods, and small shifts in atmosphere.

His work is shaped by a mixed heritage of tropical white flowers and kitchen spices, where incense, myrrh, and cinnamon were part of everyday ritual. Those notes now return in his compositions as a way of honouring where he comes from.

In each fragrance, he insists on leaving a trace of the boy who refused to accept that flowers could be gendered, and of the artist who treats perfume as a tool, not a finish.

For Chester, scent and image are parallel gestures. Both are bridges between the visible and the felt, guided by a simple motto: wherever you go, go with all your heart.

ALCOHOL DENAT., PARFUM, AQUA, TRIMETHYLCYCLOPENTENYL METHYLISOPENTENOL, LIMONENE, ALPHA-ISOMETHYL IONONE, VANILLIN, EUGENOL, COUMARIN, LINALOOL, CANANGA ODORATA OIL/EXTRACT, LINALYL ACETATE, JASMINE OIL/EXTRACT, EUCALYPTUS GLOBULUS OIL, POGOSTEMON CABLIN OIL, PINENE, CINNAMOMUM ZEYLANICUM BARK OIL, CINNAMAL, BENZYL BENZOATE, TERPINEOL, ANETHOLE, GERANYL ACETATE, BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE, TERPINOLENE, CITRAL, CAMPHOR, BENZYL SALICYLATE, GERANIOL, ALPHA-TERPINENE, BENZYL ALCOHOL, ISOEUGENOL, CITRONELLOL, ISOEUGENYL ACETATE, BHT

The perfume is presented in a magnetic card box finished with Italian Favini paper, and housed in a cubic bottle with a weighty ZAMAC cap featuring an embossed New Niche logo. It's a restrained, precise object that supports the fragrance without overshadowing it.