STUDIO TANAÏS is a perfume house and design studio founded by the New York City-based, award-winning author and perfumer, Tanaïs.
Surreal, psychedelic, sultry scentscapes—inspired by Tanais' ancestral and spiritual homes: Bangladesh, New York City, India, Hawaii, Bali, and California.
When you smell a Studio Tanaïs perfume, you understand intimately, instantly, that these olfactory odes are drawn from a deep well, imbued with the ancestral, with a reverence for ritual, lineage, spirituality and history, all while being modern, sexy, and transcendent. These are opulent, original works of art.
Tanaïs is a New York City based author and perfumer. Their book In Sensorium: Notes For My People, won the 2022 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction. This genre-defying book offers a necessary, alternative feminist perspective of South Asian history, colonization, caste and nation-state formation, through the fascinating lens of scent history and sensuality.
Their critically-acclaimed novel Bright Lines, was a Finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award, and The Brooklyn Public Library Prize.
Their forthcoming novel, Stellar Smoke, will be published by Dutton Books on October 20, 2026
A hypnotically original and lush speculative novel from award-winning author Tanaïs about technology, sex, spirituality, family secrets, and the mother–daughter bond across generations—ultimately blurring the boundary between past and present, human and machine.
October 20, 2026 by Dutton Books
Publicity: Carla Bruce, Lavender Public Relations & Nicole Jarvis, Dutton Books
Literary Agent: PJ Mark, Janklow & Nesbit
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Sensual scentscapes inspired by ritual, the ancestral, the cosmic, the femme, and the future.
Designed in New York City.
"For perfumer and author Tanaïs...attars are an olfactory manifestation of their formative cultures and geographies. They grew up in the American South, Midwest, and New York, and a tiny glass vial of these perfumed oils were symbolic of their family life."
"A new generation of LGBTQ+ brand founders and perfumers are rebelling against the hyper-gendered rules of fragrance blending, and instead creating fluid scents that reflect the complexity of human nature."
Studio Tanaïs Full Discovery Set
Experience the evocative olfactory journey of Studio Tanaïs, a stunning 12 scent journey features our ENTIRE perfume collection, handcrafted by Tanaïs in our NYC studio.
Made with rare and hypnotic resins, absolutes and oils from around the world, along with the finest perfumer’s grade raw materials, these mixed media compositions are opulent works of art, for your body and soul.
Scent Sextets ° Discover Your Spirit Scent
Scent travelers, this one's for you, a self-made discovery set, meant to take the wearer on a sacred journey.
Each of these six singular perfumes are designed and handcrafted by Tanaïs in NYC. Using rare and hypnotic resins, absolutes and oils from around the world, along with the finest perfumer’s grade raw materials, these mixed media compositions are works of art, for your body and soul.
IN SENSORIUM: NOTES FOR MY PEOPLE BY TANAÏS, WINNER OF THE 2022 KIRKUS PRIZE FOR NONFICTION
"In overwhelming accordance, we selected In Sensorium by Tanaïs as the winner of the 2022 Kirkus Nonfiction Prize for its daring, inventiveness, vision, and lyrical eloquence. Using the framework of fragrance and scent, the author's work confronts aspects of our society related to women, gender, and people of color. Seductive, vital, and incomparable, this is a reading experience that endures."
KIRKUS PRIZE NONFICTION JUDGES' STATEMENT
ONE OF NPR'S BOOKS WE LOVE OF 2022
"In Sensorium is a potently beautiful testimonial of feeling, touching, and breathing beyond the boundaries of empire." — Imani Perry, author of South to America
"In Sensorium does to the senses, particularly smell, what Toni Cade Bambara did to sound. I have never come close to experiencing a book that reminds us to accept the calcified histories and fluid futures deeply packed in our senses." —Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy and Long Division
"Lyrical, expansive, aching, and alive." — Jenny Zhang, Author of Sour Heart
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