Heritage
A house, in its own words
Sentir Parfum was founded in 2021 by friends Sami Al Qaissy and an unidentified second founder. A published account of the house describes its early days as bedroom-blending experiments that developed into a full fragrance company. The supplied research does not establish the founders’ surnames, the exact circumstances of the first blends, or a complete list of early products, so those details remain unconfirmed. The brand is associated with Manchester and presents its fragrances as unisex niche scents. Its stated direction is to make fragrance accessible while drawing on perfume culture and personal feeling. The collection grew from those early experiments into a catalogue of more than 90 fragrances, according to the company’s own description, although that figure is not independently corroborated in the supplied material. The 2024 fragrance list places Sentir’s current identity around a broad wardrobe of themed compositions, including mimosa, amber, mandarin and cedar. The name also creates a clear conceptual link between scent and sensation. That emphasis is reflected in the founder story, which connects Sentir with stillness, scent and intention. While the available sources do not document formal perfumery training, independent perfumers, awards, distribution milestones or manufacturing partnerships, they do establish a young house with a traceable origin story, a Manchester setting and a collection that moved quickly from private experimentation to commercial fragrance production. Sentir’s creative philosophy centers on fragrance as something felt personally. The brand’s name, meaning “to feel” in several Romance languages, gives the house a vocabulary of emotion, instinct and sensory memory. Its founder story frames perfume as a route back to stillness, presenting scent as an object for attention and intention rather than simply an accessory. That idea gives the collection its unisex positioning. Rather than defining fragrances as exclusively masculine or feminine, Sentir appears to build compositions around moods, textures and atmospheric ideas that can sit across different identities and occasions. The supplied material does not identify individual perfumers, so the house’s approach cannot be attributed to a documented creator of its compositions. What can be said is that the range includes names such as Mon Soleil, Aplomb and Cèdre Doux, which suggest a focus on atmosphere, composure and natural materials. The company describes its aim as making fine fragrance accessible to everyone, but that phrase functions as a brand statement rather than a verified claim about market reach. The most specific philosophical position comes from the founder narrative itself: scent, stillness and intention are treated as connected practices. In practical terms, Sentir’s philosophy seems to invite wearers to choose fragrance according to how it feels, then return to it as part of a personal ritual.