APFR

"Enjoying fragrance in your life" APOTHEKE FRAGRANCE is a fragrance brand that does all the processes from mixing, production, and packaging of products by hand at its own factory in Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture. The brand name APOTHEKE means "a place to mix fragrances and herbs" or "a dispensing pharmacy" in German. Like a pharmacy, we propose "how to enjoy fragrance as a part of your life" from a position rooted in the customer's life. About 10 years ago, when the brand was launched, founder Keita Sugasawa encountered many perfume oil and incense wood shops in the countries he traveled to, and was strongly inspired and impressed by them, which are rarely seen in Japan. After working at a fragrance company to learn about fragrance from scratch, in 2011 he set up an atelier in his hometown of Chiba Prefecture and started a handmade room fragrance brand. "All handmade" We prefer simple quality and analog texture born from effort, and do not aim for mass production using machines or outsourcing. For this reason, they value not only mixing and producing the fragrances, but also hand-making everything from stamping the labels to packaging the products. Through trial and error, they have created over 100 different scents. And the product lineup, which started with candles, now includes a wide range of products, including room sprays and incense.