Scents of Memento

Scents of Memento is a small Kuala Lumpur perfume house founded in 2019 by Koryou Xing, who worked in advertising before he turned to scent. It began with candles and added perfume in 2021, Beauty Insider reported. The name is about bringing memories back: Xing builds each scent around a nostalgic theme, often from his own past, and says every scent needs a design, a story and a background.

Its perfumes are numbered eaux de parfum, from 001 Sublime to 014 Fig It Till You Make It, and the house describes them as fresh-blended by hand. Grazia Malaysia wrote in 2025 that Xing makes them by hand in small runs. The studio also runs a Bespoke Perfume Workshop of an hour and a half: a guide asks about your tastes and the story you want to tell, and you blend your own 50 ml eau de parfum from more than 100 fragrance oils imported from France, for RM188.

In Kuala Lumpur, Scents of Memento has a shop of its own, opened in June 2022 at Rivercity on Jalan Sultan Azlan Shah: Lot No. 468-G-02, ground floor, Block G. It is open Tuesday to Sunday, 11am to 6pm, and closed on Mondays. On its own site most scents are listed at RM180, some also at RM90, and a trio of 10 ml bottles costs RM130. Start with 007 Blue Jeans White Shirt, its best seller and the one Xing suggests to newcomers: washed denim and crisp white cotton, made with aldehydes and soft white flowers.