The Story
Why it exists.
The beginning
Voyance means clairvoyance in French, the gift of seeing beyond. Spyros Drosopoulos built this fragrance around that idea: a scent that holds contradictions without resolving them. Masculine and feminine, smoke and cream, shadow and light, the whole composition oscillates rather than settles. The name isn't decorative. It's the point.
The real tension lives in the materials. Tuberose is one of perfumery's most polarizing florals, lush, almost too sweet, heady in the way only white blooms can be. Guaiac wood is its opposite: smoky, austere, mineral. The vetiver is what holds them together, neither floral nor wood, but something earthier, a bridge. Sandalwood and musk don't rescue the composition so much as deepen it, adding a base that lets the tuberose breathe without losing its edge. This isn't tuberose for people who hate tuberose. It's tuberose for people who want it to mean something.
The evolution
Voyance opens on a paradox: fresh mountain air and wood smoke arriving together. The brand calls this initial impression a breath of fresh mountain air, and it lifts for the first ten minutes before the vetiver and guaiac take over. That's when the tuberose emerges, not immediately, but gradually, like something surfacing. For the next two to three hours, the composition lives in that middle ground: creamy floral meets smoky wood, neither dominating. Then the drydown arrives, powdery, warm, the sandalwood and musk settling into skin rather than filling a room. What lingers is intimate, close, the kind of scent someone notices when they're already beside you.
Cultural impact
Voyance occupies a specific corner of niche perfumery: not avant-garde enough to alienate, not safe enough to forget. It sits comfortably in fall and spring, when the temperature hovers between warm and cool and a fragrance can plausibly lean both directions. The gender-fluid positioning isn't a marketing trick, the materials genuinely support it. Tuberose brings the feminine; vetiver and guaiac bring the masculine; the composition holds both. For wearers who want that oscillation without committing to either extreme, Voyance delivers.
The House
BarutiBaruti is a Dutch niche perfume house that builds each scent in a small Rotterdam lab. Founder Spyros Drosopoulos, a former neuroscientist turned self‑taught perfumer, writes every formula himself and blends the mixtures by hand. The brand releases both personal fragrances and ambient scents, aiming for compositions that feel unexpected yet familiar. Baruti’s catalogue includes early releases such as Chai (2015) and Berlin Im Winter (2015) and more recent offerings like Laurakimou! (2024) and Sombras de Sintra (2025). The house positions itself as a laboratory for olfactory ideas rather than a commercial label, and it maintains a modest online presence that highlights the creative process.
The Creator
Spyros DrosopoulosSpyros favors a hands‑on approach, blending natural extracts with synthetics to achieve balance and depth. He builds his compositions layer by layer, letting a base of woods and resins anchor brighter spices or floral bursts.
