Imprint is a perfume publishing house, based in East London and founded by the award-winning perfumer Timothy Han. It makes fragrance inspired by iconic works of literature — the subversive, culture-shaping kind.

The premise is literal, not decorative. Each edition begins with a single novel and is built outward from it: the scent first, then the artwork and finally the events that support it. On the Road becomes tar, whisky, cedar and smoke — Kerouac's road as the compulsion for freedom rather than romance. Six titles open the collection: She Came to Stay (de Beauvoir), On the Road (Kerouac), The Decay of the Angel (Mishima), Against Nature (Huysmans), Heart of Darkness (Conrad) and Mad Love (Breton). All of them defined an era.

Han is known, above all, for fragrances that smell like nothing else — singular olfactory signatures, built without classical training and defined by contrast and contradiction. Made to be loved or hated, never ignored. He began his career in fashion, as an assistant to John Galliano, before turning to scent; The Sunday Times Style once described him as "a bit of a cool magnet." His private commissions have included The Peninsula, Lady Gaga and European royalty.
Imprint is Timothy Han / Edition remade — the same instinct that put his fragrances into Liberty, Browns, 10 Corso Como, DSM LA, Voo Store and Barneys New York, now given a sharper, more defined character. A house that treats scent as a form of writing.
Its position is straightforward. Perfume should provoke thought as well as feeling. The compositions are built on contradiction, tension and curiosity, and they are not made to please everyone — only to reach the people who feel something. Complexity over perfection. Substance over surface.
Alongside the fragrances, Imprint is running "The Reading Series" — a book club that takes place in key cities and celebrates the works that inspire the scents.

Imprint is made for the independently minded: people who love stories and value depth and consideration over noise — creatives and freethinkers moved by conviction rather than marketing. The scents are not for everyone, and were never meant to be.