Heritage
A house, in its own words
Canéza is a 2025 creation, and its founding story is closely tied to the Kalsekar family's long involvement in Gulf perfumery. The house was established by Anis Abdul Razak Kalsekar, who is also co-owner of the Rasasi Group, one of the most established names in UAE fragrance. The Kalsekar family's connection to Rasasi gives Canéza an unusual starting position: a brand-new label with access to decades of distribution knowledge, supply relationships, and a deep bench of oud and attar traditions that have shaped the regional industry. Because the house is so young, the visible milestones are commercial rather than archival. In its first year, Canéza assembled a catalogue of around ten fragrances covering extraits and EDPs for both men and women. The brand then moved quickly into international retail, appointing an official UK distributor and, on 25 September 2026, staging its India launch event at the Fairmont Mumbai. That speed from founding to multi-market presence is unusual for a debut house and points to the operational infrastructure already in place through the family's existing perfume business. What Canéza does not yet have is a long paper trail. There are no vintage archives, no reformulations, no generational shifts. Its history is, for now, a single chapter being written in real time, with the weight of a well-known Gulf fragrance dynasty behind it. Canéza's stated creative direction is modern perfumery aimed at broad accessibility, an approach shaped by its founder's existing position in the regional market. The brand's own messaging frames the house as a new chapter rather than a traditional atelier, positioning its scents as wearable, current, and designed for everyday use rather than as collector-oriented niche releases. The catalogue reflects that sensibility. Fragrances such as Uomo lean into a clean, spicy masculine register, while Veleno and Hypnotic suggest a taste for darker, more nocturnal compositions. On the softer end, Prisca and Mezmar Women Cafe Vanilla point toward gourmand and feminine territory, and Oud Essence keeps the house connected to the oud traditions central to Gulf perfumery. The range reads as deliberately varied, a strategy aimed at covering multiple audience segments within a single debut. Canéza is also guided, in practical terms, by a family with deep experience in large-scale fragrance distribution. That background tends to shape decisions about ingredient availability, pricing architecture, and which retail channels to enter first. The result is a house that thinks commercially from day one without dressing that thinking up in the usual niche-fragrance language.