Casa Calixto is a perfume house founded in 2026 by Carlos Pérez, the perfumer of the house, with its headquarters in London, England.
The land is the note.
Casa Calixto was born on a Saturday morning in Pinheiros, São Paulo; in the shadow of a colonial church, on the hard grey brutalist concrete of Praça Benedito Calixto, where the city gathers each week to trade, to play, to remember.
Named for the square, and for the painter who gave it his name, Casa Calixto looks differently at the landscape he once rendered. Where he painted indigenous communities as backdrop, we come forward to stand beside it and embrace ethnobotanical perfumery. We learn from communities whose knowledge of this land runs deeper than any archive, whose relationship with scent, root and resin is a living inheritance.
Beyond the tropes.
The cities Carlos loved most were never smooth. They were layered: brutalist towers wrapped in vines, grey plazas alive with the sound and smell of people. The roughness of the architecture made the softness of the natural world feel more vivid, more precious. That contrast is what Casa Calixto tries to capture.
For too long, South America has been filtered through someone else's idea of what it should smell like.
Casa Calixto builds from the ground up. Tonka bean, soft as last light on an open plain. Guaiacwood, smoky and dry, the scent of timber that has stood for centuries. Copaiba balsam, resinous and peppery, a depth that lingers long after everything else has settled.
This is what South America actually smells like. We want you to live inside it.
Eco-brutalism, in a bottle.
Where concrete cracks, green things push through. Where brutalist plazas meet ancient canopy. Where the city built upward without ever letting go of what grew beneath.
This is eco-brutalism. Not a style. A feeling. The sensation of standing in São Paulo, in Caracas, in the cities that made us.
Our fragrances live in that same in-between. Structured, grounded, and alive.
Regenerative luxury.
Sustainability is not a selling point. It is the only way this work makes sense. Casa Calixto was built on a deep respect for the communities and landscapes that inspire every fragrance we make.
Our materials carry the same intention. The concrete of our caps is a quiet nod to the eco-brutalist cities that shaped us, made with low-carbon binders so that even the hard edges of our work tread lightly. Our glass is fully recyclable, but we hope you never recycle it.
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The house moves slowly, but we like to stay in touch. Follow along, write to us, or read the journal, whichever way you prefer.
