A Mistpouffer is an unexplained natural sound, a sonic boom like distant cannon fire that seems to come out of the fog over large lakes or rivers. It has been recorded all over the world throughout history, and is the source of many legends. Despite scientific attempts to understand the sounds, its source has still not been identified. Possible explanations include solar winds resonating in the atmosphere, underground earthquakes or gas bubbles being released from the deep. Others believe it is the work of extraterrestrial or subsurface civilisations.
Rendering this mystical water thunder as a fragrance was as elusive as the sound itself. We spent four years and hundreds of iterations before finding the right balance between being distinctive and inexplainable. The honeyed hay of immortelle dapples sunshine across deep green siblings vetiver and cypriol. It’s foggy but not aquatic, smoky but not heavy. Natural, but in equal parts supernatural.
All about this fragrance
Vibe check
This is a scent for close, thoughtful company in a dim room where the windows are open to damp air and the conversation stays low. It projects an eerie calm: green, smoky and slightly uncanny, like a landscape remembered through fog.
How to wear
Best in cool to mild weather, where its green woods and smoke can stay crisp rather than dense. Apply lightly to let the fig leaf, pine and vetiver unfold in layers; a few sprays are enough, as the scent reads more atmospheric than loud and leaves a dry, misty trail.
Who it’s for
For wearers who like green woods with a conceptual edge: fig leaf, pine, vetiver and cypriol, sharpened by smoke and ozone. It suits people drawn to clean but unusual compositions, natural materials with a strange twist, and fragrances that feel atmospheric rather than decorative.
Release year
2019
The nose
Tomas Hempel. As co-founder of Stora Skuggan, Hempel works in a highly conceptual, in-house mode, building fragrances from ideas, materials and atmosphere rather than following a conventional brief. His style for the brand tends toward strange naturalism: scents that feel rooted in landscape and folklore, yet slightly off-kilter and hard to pin down. Mistpouffer fits that approach closely. Hempel shaped it over several years to evoke an unexplained sonic phenomenon over water, balancing green woods, smoke and a faint mineral-ozonic tension so the result feels atmospheric rather than literal.
Collaborators
Stora Skuggan’s founders shaped the fragrance as a collective creative project, with the house’s multidisciplinary, in-house process guiding the concept, bottle design and final composition. Tomas Hempel developed the formula, while the brand’s co-founders helped define the mythic brief and the visual world around it.
Stora Skuggan’s story
Stora Skuggan treats perfume as a design and storytelling medium, drawing on myth, folklore, natural phenomena and odd cultural fragments rather than conventional luxury codes. The house is known for an experimental, handmade approach, with a strong emphasis on in-house creation, distinctive objects and gender-fluid compositions that feel imaginative but controlled.
Mistpouffer’s concept
Mistpouffer was built around the idea of an unexplained boom heard over foggy lakes and rivers, a phenomenon surrounded by legends across different cultures. Stora Skuggan spent nearly four years and hundreds of trials chasing that elusive balance: something foggy but not aquatic, smoky but not heavy, natural yet slightly supernatural.
Extra info
Mistpouffer takes its name from a real unexplained natural phenomenon, a boom heard over large bodies of water and wrapped in legend. The fragrance launched in 2019 in Stora Skuggan’s handcrafted 30ml bottle with a stoneware orb lid, part of the brand’s sculptural identity.
A Mistpouffer is an unexplained natural sound, a sonic boom like distant cannon fire that seems to come out of the fog over large lakes or rivers. It has been recorded all over the world throughout history, and is the source of many legends. Despite scientific attempts to understand the sounds, its source has still not been identified. Possible explanations include solar winds resonating in the atmosphere, underground earthquakes or gas bubbles being released from the deep. Others believe it is the work of extraterrestrial or subsurface civilisations.
Rendering this mystical water thunder as a fragrance was as elusive as the sound itself. We spent four years and hundreds of iterations before finding the right balance between being distinctive and inexplainable. The honeyed hay of immortelle dapples sunshine across deep green siblings vetiver and cypriol. It’s foggy but not aquatic, smoky but not heavy. Natural, but in equal parts supernatural.
All about this fragrance
Vibe check
This is a scent for close, thoughtful company in a dim room where the windows are open to damp air and the conversation stays low. It projects an eerie calm: green, smoky and slightly uncanny, like a landscape remembered through fog.
How to wear
Best in cool to mild weather, where its green woods and smoke can stay crisp rather than dense. Apply lightly to let the fig leaf, pine and vetiver unfold in layers; a few sprays are enough, as the scent reads more atmospheric than loud and leaves a dry, misty trail.
Who it’s for
For wearers who like green woods with a conceptual edge: fig leaf, pine, vetiver and cypriol, sharpened by smoke and ozone. It suits people drawn to clean but unusual compositions, natural materials with a strange twist, and fragrances that feel atmospheric rather than decorative.
Release year
2019
The nose
Tomas Hempel. As co-founder of Stora Skuggan, Hempel works in a highly conceptual, in-house mode, building fragrances from ideas, materials and atmosphere rather than following a conventional brief. His style for the brand tends toward strange naturalism: scents that feel rooted in landscape and folklore, yet slightly off-kilter and hard to pin down. Mistpouffer fits that approach closely. Hempel shaped it over several years to evoke an unexplained sonic phenomenon over water, balancing green woods, smoke and a faint mineral-ozonic tension so the result feels atmospheric rather than literal.
Collaborators
Stora Skuggan’s founders shaped the fragrance as a collective creative project, with the house’s multidisciplinary, in-house process guiding the concept, bottle design and final composition. Tomas Hempel developed the formula, while the brand’s co-founders helped define the mythic brief and the visual world around it.
Stora Skuggan’s story
Stora Skuggan treats perfume as a design and storytelling medium, drawing on myth, folklore, natural phenomena and odd cultural fragments rather than conventional luxury codes. The house is known for an experimental, handmade approach, with a strong emphasis on in-house creation, distinctive objects and gender-fluid compositions that feel imaginative but controlled.
Mistpouffer’s concept
Mistpouffer was built around the idea of an unexplained boom heard over foggy lakes and rivers, a phenomenon surrounded by legends across different cultures. Stora Skuggan spent nearly four years and hundreds of trials chasing that elusive balance: something foggy but not aquatic, smoky but not heavy, natural yet slightly supernatural.
Extra info
Mistpouffer takes its name from a real unexplained natural phenomenon, a boom heard over large bodies of water and wrapped in legend. The fragrance launched in 2019 in Stora Skuggan’s handcrafted 30ml bottle with a stoneware orb lid, part of the brand’s sculptural identity.