The house
Most perfume is composed for a temperate climate and then sold everywhere. We started the other way round.
Made for this climate
A composition built for a European autumn behaves differently at thirty-three degrees and eighty percent humidity. Heat lifts the top notes off your skin faster than they were meant to go. Humidity holds them close instead of letting them project. A perfume that reads as elegant in Paris can read as heavy in a lift in Bangsar, and one that lasts eight hours in London can be gone by lunch here.
So we compose here, and we test here — on skin, in the afternoon, in the car park rather than in the studio. The result is not a tropical version of something else. It is what these materials do in this air.
What we work with
A good deal of what the perfume world prizes grows in this region. Gaharu — agarwood — comes from Southeast Asia. So do nutmeg and mace, from Penang. Ylang-ylang, kenanga, melati, cempaka, sirih: these are not exotic imports to us, they are what the neighbourhood smells like in the evening.
We use them without dressing them up as something European. A jasmine here is melati and smells like melati — heavier, more indolic, more like the flower actually is after dark than the tidy abstraction the term "jasmine" usually signals.
Honestly labelled
- Full INCI on every product, with declarable fragrance allergens listed rather than buried under "parfum".
- Concentration stated as a percentage range, not implied by a name.
- Halal certification claimed only on the alcohol-free oils, where the position is unambiguous. We do not put a badge on a bottle of alcohol denat.
- Reviews published as written, criticism included. A page of five-star reviews is a page nobody believes.
- Longevity reported by the people wearing it, as a range, because it genuinely varies by skin and by day.
Sizes you will finish
Perfume degrades. Heat and light degrade it faster, and we live in heat and light. A hundred millilitres of something you wear twice a month is not generosity, it is waste dressed as value — most of it will turn before you reach the bottom.
So our standard bottle is smaller than the industry standard, we sell refills for the compositions that suit them, and we would rather you came back for a second thirty millilitres than resented the first hundred.
Buying unsniffed
Nobody should spend three hundred ringgit on a scent they have not worn. Every composition is available as a vial in a discovery set, the sets are priced so that trying costs almost nothing, and the price comes back against a full bottle when you choose one.
Wear each one on a separate day, on skin rather than paper, and give it until the evening. The first ten minutes of a perfume are the least representative part of it.
Where to find us
- Trading name
- Adiwangi
- Registered name
- Adiwangi Retail Sdn. Bhd.
- Registration number
- 202601000000 (1500000-X)
- hello@adiwangi.com
- Telephone
- +60 3 2000 0000
- Hours
- Monday to Friday, 9am – 6pm MYT
- Address
- Level 8, Menara Kemuning, Jalan Maarof, Bangsar, 59100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia