Olfactive Melbourne
Olfactive Melbourne are a husband and wife team passionate about perfume and on a journey to better understand the art of perfumery. Join us for an immersive podcast series exploring artisinal perfumery. We explore the world of fragrance with the founders, perfumers and creatives of perfumery. Each episode is an educational masterclass uncovering the craft, creativity and passion behind unique fragrances.
Olfactive Melbourne
#023 KOLIDO A Conversation with Kimberley Ngo
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In this episode of Olfactive Melbourne, we sit down with Kimberley Ngo—the perfumer behind KOLIDO, an independent Australian fragrance house where scent is approached as both process and expression.
Based in the Yarra Valley on Wurundjeri Country, KOLIDO is built on a hands-on, iterative approach to perfumery, where each fragrance is developed, worn, and refined entirely in-house. Rather than following traditional structures, the house focuses on accords and composition to translate ideas into scent.
Guided by Kimberley’s perspective as both collector and creator, each fragrance is developed from a central concept and resolved through experimentation, resulting in compositions that feel textural, deliberate, and quietly distinctive.
In this note-by-note masterclass, we explore Bareback—a bold and textural composition that opens with a striking interplay of leather and aromatic facets, creating an immediate sense of rawness and tension. As the fragrance develops, the heart reveals deeper tonal shifts, where animalic nuances, soft woods, and subtle warmth begin to emerge, adding dimension and complexity. It settles into a rich and lingering base of worn leather, musks, and resinous undertones, leaving a trail that feels both intimate and unapologetically visceral.
Watch or listen now as we explore a fragrance house where process is everything, storytelling replaces structure, and each perfume is carefully constructed to be experienced as a complete and evolving composition.
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