ORDER ISSUES & RETURNS
We are a very small & sweet team. As an independent beauty and fragrance business, we unfortunately cannot accept returns on used lipsticks, fragrances or candles at this time.
IF YOU HAVE ANY ISSUES WITH YOUR ORDER, PLEASE EMAIL OUR BEAUTY & STUDIO DIRECTOR TALYSHA MONÉE
All orders ship via USPS FIRST CLASS, USPS PRIORITY, UPS GROUND OR DHL.
Free shipping for orders $75+ includes U.S. Orders ONLY.
We are not responsible for items lost in transit, but will try to help!
Please note: we are a duo of artists who are committed to bringing beauty and joy, and we don't tolerate rudeness. We reserve the right to ban mean-spirited customers from our shop. We do this out of love, and our customers are the reason we do it all!
XO,
TANAÏS, FOUNDER
TALYSHA MONÉE, BEAUTY & STUDIO DIRECTOR
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 through the lens of scent and sensuality. Holding complex, discordant histories is central to their artistic practice. Adornment is a sensuous act of resistance. Liberation is the ultimate goal.
Everything Tanaïs creates is laced with a desire that all beings feel their innate beauty.
They are the author of the critically-acclaimed novel Bright Lines, Finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award, and The Brooklyn Public Library Prize. and their forthcoming feminist futurist novel, Stellar Smoke will be published by Dutton Books in 2025.
As a self-taught perfumer, they work with a library of hundreds of rare botanicals, attars, and fine perfumer's raw materials.
Tanaïs' perfumes are opulent, original works of art.
Photograph by Abigail Tulenko
Their inspirations are rooted in their Bangladeshi heritage, the wild beauty of their home, New York City, and their spiritual homes, India, Hawaii, Bali, Mexico, Morocco, the Mojave Desert, Jamaica, psychedelia, sensuous resistance, the non-duality of masc-femme, Afro-futurism, Black liberation and feminist thought, Bollywood disco, Rekha, their Bengali foremothers, The Buddha, Sufism, queer ecstasy, trans divinity, fluidity, textiles, beads, narcotic flowers, celestial bodies, Venus and the Moon, meditations by bodies of water, walking in the woods, where places where the ancient and future become one, dance, film, music on vinyl, nature, the cosmos and the Divine, as imagined by syncretic South Asian olfactory and spiritual traditions for eons.
"Tanaïs, the name I have given myself, is a portmanteau of the first two letters of my three names, Tanwi Nandini Islam. There is no splitting me apart. This renaming liberates me from patrilineage, gender and religion in a single utterance. Tanaïs holds my Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist lineages in a single breath."
TANAÏS AND TALYSHA MONEÉ MET ON AN ARTIST'S PHOTO PROJECT, AS MAKEUP ARTIST AND MODEL. WE ARE A QUEER, BLACK AND SOUTH ASIAN DREAM DUO DEVOTED TO ACTS OF RITUAL, BEAUTY & ENDLESS CREATIVITY.
MEET OUR BEAUTY & STUDIO DIRECTOR
Raised in San Antonio, TX, Talysha Moneé moved to NYC in 2010 and graduated from Makeup Designery Soho, starting their first film in the summer of 2011.
Talysha has worked on over fifty independent films since then, showcasing a range of skills in beauty and SFX makeup. Inspired by punk aesthetics, taxidermy, and going into nature to find the beginnings of makeup, like pigments, berries, dirts and clays. Their beauty practice honors the delicate interplay between human anatomy, sensuality, and cycles of life and death.
INTERESTED IN CARRYING TANAÏS PERFUMES OR BEAUTY IN YOUR SHOP? EMAIL US! hello@studiotanais.com
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