TepAlanfas Co. — Tripoli, Libya. Est. 2005.

A houseof perfumes,kept patient.

بيتُ عطرٍ، صبر الزمان شاهده.

From a single perfumer's room in Tripoli to more than forty branches across Libya — west to east, north to south. The company is now opening branches beyond the country's borders.

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Four houses, one hand

Fresheners. Incense.Fragrance. Lotion.

Four benches in the same atelier. Each blended in its own register, each finished in the same hand.

معطّرات. بخور. عطر. كريم.

01 — fresheners

Fresheners

معطرات الجو

The long shelf of the home. Sea breeze, white florals, black oud — the air a guest walks through before they meet the host.

Wood, resin, and the patience to age them. Lit slowly. Worn by the room before the cloth.

Orientals built around dehn al-oud, rose, and musk. The signature is in the breath after, not the spray.

Finished beside the perfume bench. The cream that closes the scent on the skin.

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Chapter II — Heritage

The beginning of the rain is a drop.

أوّل الغيث قطرة.

From Tripoli, with patience. Two men — Muhammad Faraj Al-Ajtal and Abdullah Suleiman Ahmed — opened one perfumer's room in 2005. They mixed by hand. They signed nothing they had not smelled.

The company was registered four years later, in 2009. By then the room had already become a habit, and the habit had already become a house.

Forty-one doors followed. West to east. North to south. Tripoli to Benghazi, Sabratah to Misurata. Each door keeps the same bench. Each bench keeps the same hand.

من طرابلس، بصبر. افتتح الشريكان — محمد فرج الأجطل وعبدالله سليمان أحمد — محلاً صغيراً للعطر سنة 2005. خلطا باليد. ولم يُمضيا اسمَهما على عطرٍ لم يشمّاه.

سُجّلت الشركة رسمياً بعد أربع سنوات، في 2009. وكانت الغرفةُ قد صارت عادةً، وكانت العادةُ قد صارت بيتاً.

تَبِعَها واحدٌ وأربعون باباً. من الغرب إلى الشرق. ومن الشمال إلى الجنوب. من طرابلس إلى بنغازي، ومن صبراتة إلى مصراتة. كلُّ بابٍ يحفظ الطاولةَ ذاتها. وكلُّ طاولةٍ تحفظ اليدَ ذاتها.

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