Maison Francis Kurkdjian Introduces “Kurky”

Maison Francis Kurkdjian has introduced a new addition to its fragrance line: Kurky. Unlike anything in the brand’s current collection, Kurky is playful, lighthearted, and purposefully offbeat. It's a fragrance designed to catch you off guard—not with complexity, but with charm.

Named after the perfumer’s childhood nickname, Kurky arrives in the Maison’s classic bottle but with a peach-coloured lacquer and a label handwritten in a childlike script. Its packaging, too, has taken a nostalgic turn, inspired by a striped box of Jordan almonds from Francis Kurkdjian’s youth and finished with his own childhood drawings. The scent itself skips the traditional structure of perfume-making and opts instead for immediacy. It opens with a tutti-frutti accord and settles into soft musky and vanilla notes—more reminiscent of candy and clean skin than of florals or woods. It’s disarming in its simplicity.

Kurky isn't trying to follow any established fragrance family. Kurkdjian describes it as a “fruity plush toy,” and that seems apt: it smells edible without being cloying, playful without veering into novelty. It’s perfume stripped of formality—an olfactory reminder that not everything in adulthood needs to be serious.

At its core, Kurky is an exercise in reconnecting with the imagination. For Kurkdjian, fragrance can be a way to experience the world with the same unfiltered curiosity as a child. That ethos is already visible in his past work—he’s also behind the only scented bubbles on the market. Kurky is simply a continuation of that perspective: an invitation to dream, to feel, to remember.