Before Sakkat Kathe, there was incense. From the age of 12 to 21, nearly ten years of my growing up went into making agarbatti and selling it, batch after batch, market after market.
If you've ever stood near fresh incense drying, you know the smell. It gets into your clothes and your hair, and somehow into your memory. Years later, one whiff of a temple or a puja room and you're back in that place.
What incense taught me
Making things teaches you patience and consistency: the same quality, every batch. Selling at scale teaches you people: what they reach for, what they remember, what they come back for. Most of all, it taught me that people don't buy a smell. They buy the feeling it brings back.
The rollercoaster, and the way back
After those years, life took me on a rollercoaster: work, different paths, many things tried. But fragrance never really left. Sakkat Kathe is me coming back to my roots.
So I started with the moments I knew best, my own: an evening ride, a look at a jatre, a first hug, a celebration under fireworks. Each became a kathe, and each kathe became a perfume.
Made here
Every Sakkat Kathe perfume is an Eau de Parfum, made in Bengaluru, with a label painted for its story. It's the same care we gave every batch of agarbatti, in a new bottle.