Find Your ORB

May 04, 2026

Straight out of Melbourne and onto your skin, no one quite does fragrance like ORB Oils. ORB cares for you, which is why their products are natural and long-lasting. ORB also cares about the Earth, which is why their products are vegan and their packaging is 100% sustainable. They've gone plastic-free by using recycled, recyclable, and even compostable shipping materials. Not only do their products set the stage for sustainability, but their genderless fragrances shatter social norms. They've got something for everyone, made with the consideration for everything.

Meet: Lenny (bold, spicy, rebellious), Harper (smooth, soft, effortlessly cool), River (crisp, fresh, clean-cut), and Bobby (warm, earthy, grounding). With notes spanning from lemon and amber, vanilla and orchid, to cedar and sandalwood, ORB keeps sexy fresh. Their fragrance oils are multifunctional as roller keychains, so you can keep smelling good on the run. Their body oils, available in AM and PM versions, keep you moisturized and achieve that oiled-up, sex appeal look.

Photos Courtesy of Liv Solomon

Beauty

No Bullshit by IIUVO

January 02, 2018

IIUVO is the sensory concept by ex-Comme des Garcons creative Tomi Ahmed, and musician Leo Gibbon. The duo began their London-based fragrance house in 2015, first focusing on three “core” candles, adding a fourth in 2016, which was a collaboration with artist Stefan Bruggermann called “Bullshit”. It was this one candle, and its clever title, that had us hooked on IIUVO.

By the time office finally got together with the two founders, while on a trip to NYC, they had added more scents, which were being stocked at boutiques internationally— and now, were not only found in candle form, but in their three unisex perfumes as well. Based out of their fashion and musical backgrounds, the IIUVO brand interprets the beauty industry with an artistic, off-beat perspective— avant-garde enough to give a little something to everyone, even those who might call most beauty products “bullshit”.

Interview by Anna Zanes
Photos by Christian Larsen for office

How do you explain your theory that perfume has an emotional aspect?

LG I think that 'scent' or 'smell' in general is the thing that has a strong emotional aspect. From smelling a perfume or scent very briefly, it has the power to transport you to a memory that only you know. Whether it's an ex-partner, a holiday, a family member, a place you used to live, or otherwise— it sparks up something that is very personal and different to the next person.

Do you connect your candles to certain memories, or are you trying to create new associations in the sensory experience of your brand?

LG It's a combination of both— for us, it's important to touch on every aspect of our lives. Past memories, current fascinations, future aspirations, and ideas. For example, 'Emmie' is a candle based from my time in my Nans garden growing up, whereas 'woodgrain' was created based on a musical concept.

What is the connection between other art forms and perfume, or beauty products?

LG Creating each scent, we build a 360 narrative. First, a ten track playlist, along with art references, film references, fashion references, and photography. The connection is how each facet fits in to add to the whole experience.

Do you have the playlists for your perfumes and candles?

LG We have a different playlist for every scent made, both candles and perfume. We will be releasing them throughout website in good time.

Do you remember your first memory attached to smell?

TA My first memory attached to smell was my mum, cooking, especially the smell of plantain as we lived in a slightly confined space so smell could permeate through the flat very quick.

Do you hate any smells?

LG Sambucca

TA Oud

Do you consider your brand a beauty line?

TA I wouldn’t call what we do a beauty brand, as I guess the notion of beauty is so subjective and has a sort of glass ceiling. I would just call it a brand that communicates with fragrance, at this moment. But things will naturally evolve over time whether that is with fragrance or other products.

Your concept is pretty intimate. Would you collaborate on anything for the brand? Who would your ideal collaborator be?

TA We are open to collaborations and would love to do something with Es Devlin or Paolo Sorrentino as these are individuals we hold in high regard and love their body of work.

LG Hendrix

Beauty

Sylvie Fleury: Making it Up

Everyone is an artist when it comes to molding the self. It’s been said that all women are artists, and Fleury’s serene color fields are iconic testaments to this. Glowing, elementary pigments recall Mondrian or Rothko, the artist’s palette-as-toolkit, and, of course, the temporary, wipe-away quality of makeup and that age old still-life maxim, omnia vanitas, translation: all is vanity.

See the full exhibition, Eye Shadows, on view at Salon 94 until December 22nd.

Beauty

Last Night with Clarisonic

October 26, 2017

As someone with sub-par skin, the concept of attending an event full of lifestyle influencers under blacklights is intimidating. Even if there will be La Croix and mini burgers. But we had to check out what Clarisonic halloween could entail— it was all too intriguing.

We entered the intimate, sleek black space, snuck onto a small L.E.S. street, and immediately the experience began. The room was full of glowing, familiar faces. Familiar, given that these girls have style that gets seen all around the city, and have each found a wide following for their beauty/social/style-inspired Instagram account.

The concept of the night took on the upcoming holiday— for Halloween, Clarisonic created a blacklight makeup station, where each attendant could ask for a neon design to be applied on their skin— illuminating under the lights, to be captured by a photobooth set-up installed behind them in the space.

Interview by Anna Zanes
Photos by Mitchell Connell

They had also set up sinks, where the girls were able to see for themselves if the device could actually satisfy their skin.

The selfies began, the images simultaneously being sent off, to be printed on a t-shirt each event-goer could take home at the end of the evening— something that only seemed appropriate for this almost annoyingly attractive group. To say the least, the immersive layout offered a unique, and interesting night out. As we waited for the full makeup experience— each girl would be pulled from the main area to get their makeup done— we mingled around the blindingly white tables, eating, sipping— some, already done-up, sparkling. Curious, and honestly skeptical about the whole beauty product game, as we chatted over crudite, I asked around about the bright Clarisonic brushes before us.

Here is what I learned and noticed— the device brushes are very, very soft. “Very soft”, was probably the first statement from every influencer and event-attendee I met— from the designer twins Coco & Breezy (remember those third eye glasses), to the Suarez sisters. Even the DJ, @elledeenyc, removed her signature heavy, black, silk hood to press the bristles against her cheek. I also learned that apparently Dr. Robb, the Clarisonic founder, is not a fake doctor like Dr. Oz.

Not only is he a brilliant scientist who studied infectious diseases, but makes for a pretty wild party host. He is an actual academic, eloquent and impressive— and because he had sparkling Blacklight stars painted on his face, speaking to this scientist didn’t feel intimidating. Overall, it was a new type of night— and we had lots of fun. Skincare doesn’t seem so scary, now.