Neandertal explores fundamental existential questions like, “Where do we
come from?” and “Where are we going?” by attempting to understand the human experience from outside ourselves.
Neandertal is an artistic response to challenging the status quo and humanity’s innately egocentric view of the universe
and our place in it.
As a first step in this exploration, artist and founder Kentaro Yamada created
Neandertal perfume as a way to explore the analogies between the lingering
echoes of our past and that of olfactory resonance. The results are contemporary, highly original, and experimental fragrance structures, free from conventional and traditional perfumery standards.
The unique shape of our bottles are based on a series of flint knapped hand axes from Norfolk in the United Kingdom. Stone tools like these have been used by mankind for over a million years and are one of our oldest and most ubiquitous design objects. Neandertal stoneware bottles are slip cast using these flint knapped hand axes, then fired and vitrified at over 1400 °C in the kiln. Neandertal glass bottles are created using state-of-the-art laser 3D scanning and printing technology.
Each of our 90ml stoneware bottles is uniquely numbered digitally using an NFC chip to ensure its provenance. Scan your bottle using any NFC-enabled smartphone to see more information.