Pigmentarium will launch its ninth fragrance, Aereo, on 20 May 2026. The scent arrives as a response to a world that rarely stops asking for attention. It is built not around being seen, but around being perceived. Still, close to the skin, and deliberately composed.

The idea behind Aereo reaches back to Rudolfine Prague, a period when science, philosophy, and imagination shared the same room. The court of Rudolf II drew thinkers who worked at the edge of what was known. Among them was Michael Sendivogius, who proposed the existence of an invisible substance in the air. He called it Aereo Nitro: something essential to life and yet capable of extinguishing it, a force that both sustains and enables fire. His theory was largely misunderstood at the time. Its significance was confirmed only centuries later with the discovery of oxygen.

Tomáš Ric, founder of Pigmentarium

Pigmentarium takes that moment, suspended between solitude and certainty, as a starting point. The fragrance does not attempt a literal translation. Instead, it captures a state of inner calm and quiet sovereignty, a return to one’s own rhythm without the need for external validation.

Aereo unfolds as a linear composition. There is no traditional opening or dry-down. The scent does not transform so much as come gradually into focus. Cashmeran forms the core: warm, soft, with a subtle mineral depth like sun-warmed earth after rain. Myrrh brings a dry, resinous gravity that anchors the composition in something calm. Pink pepper cuts through with a cool, metallic accent, giving the structure lift. The three notes work together without hierarchy. The fragrance stays close. It does not project outward but inward.

The campaign was shot by Hana Knížová, who has worked with Pigmentarium since the brand’s founding in 2018. This is her seventh campaign for the house, and for Aereo, she photographed inside the Zlín villa of Miroslav Zikmund, the Czech explorer and writer who lived there for nearly seventy years. Check it out below: