Open Water
India’s own answer to sea air — kewda, the screwpine flower distilled on the Odisha coast, cool and green and faintly sweet over clean vetiver. Water you can wear.
₹6,500
Also available: 30ml — ₹4,500
The signature
The Performance
A real flower, not a marine accord. Kewra attar, steam-distilled from screwpine on the Ganjam coast, over vetiver and cardamom that hold it through Indian heat, where most fresh scents collapse. IFRA-compliant · batch GC/MS-verified.
What these measures mean
Full ingredient list
Alcohol Denat., Parfum (Fragrance), Aqua (Water), Limonene, Linalool, Citral, Geraniol.
The allergens named occur naturally within the essential oils — we declare them in full rather than hide behind “parfum.” IFRA-compliant and batch GC/MS-verified; the profile shifts a little with each harvest. More on how a scent is built →
Refill & save. Send back your empty ARKEN bottle and refill it for ₹5,200 — ₹1,300 less, and one fewer bottle made.
Posted anywhere in India. We credit the ₹250 back toward your full bottle.
Be sure before you buy — order a 2 ml sample first. Sealed bottles are returnable within 30 days.
Layers beautifully with First Sun. The pairing guide →
Fresh scents usually vanish in an hour. We anchored kewda’s cool, green sweetness on real vetiver and cedar, with a breath of white musk, so the watery opening holds through an afternoon — fresh, but built to stay.
Kewda — screwpine — grows along the Odisha coast, and Ganjam is its heartland; the flowers are steam-distilled into kewra attar within hours of picking. It is India’s own “water” note, used for centuries — a real flower where most fresh fragrances reach for a synthetic marine accord.
Wear it when you want to feel clean and composed — a summer morning in linen, a long day in the heat. It reads quiet and expensive up close: the kind of fresh people lean in to place, not dismiss.
The arc
How it moves on skin.
Kewda and bergamot — cool, green and faintly sweet, like air off water.
The screwpine flower opens and cardamom warms it — crisp, with a soft floral body.
Vetiver, cedar and a clean musk — a green, watery skin-scent that holds close.
The specimen
Kewda
The raw material of Open Water, pressed and laid out like a herbarium plate — kewda, the screwpine flower of the Odisha coast, before it becomes a fragrance.
Into the material archive →
The first wearers
What they say.
Honest notes from early-access wearers, before public launch — 4.5 average so far. Add yours.
Clean and green, properly watery — and you can tell it’s a real flower, not a synthetic.
My office go-to. Bright in the morning, never loud.
The rest of the collection
Free shipping
Across India on every order, no minimum.
Try it first
Order a 2ml sample before the bottle. Unopened bottles are returnable within 30 days.
A 2ml sample, always
Tucked into every order — your next discovery, already chosen.
Gift, beautifully
A handwritten card and cap engraving at checkout.
Refill & return
Send the empty bottle back, refill for less, make one fewer.