Ankura

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All about this fragrance

Vibe check

This is a fragrance for close quarters and alert minds: a crisp shirt, warm skin, and the sense of moving through a shaded garden just after rain. Its green brightness reads polished at first, then turns smoky and mossed, giving the wearer a composed but slightly wild presence.

How to wear

Best in mild to cool weather, where its mint, citrus and moss can stay vivid without feeling heavy. One or two sprays are enough for an extrait-style concentration; it has strong presence and a long, smoky drydown, so light application keeps the green opening and oud base in balance.

Who it’s for

For wearers who like aromatic greens with a vintage chypre backbone, earthy depth and a noticeable woody trail. It will appeal to people who enjoy natural-smelling complexity, moss, sage, mint and oud, especially when they want freshness with bite rather than a soft clean scent.

Release year

2023

The nose

Ashek Zubayer is the founder and perfume artist behind Byermia, known for working with high-quality naturals and building fragrances around rare woods, florals and musks. His style leans artisanal and textural, with a fondness for complex compositions that feel vintage in spirit but modern in structure. With Ankura, that approach comes through in the contrast between bright aromatic lift and a darker, smoky woody base. The fragrance shows his interest in natural materials and layered storytelling, using green freshness, moss and oud to suggest growth, earth and movement rather than a simple citrus opening.

Collaborators

Ashek Zubayer appears to have shaped the fragrance both as perfumer and as the creative force behind Byermia, guiding the concept around youth, growth and the image of a sapling. The Epoch Series framing suggests a broader house concept rather than a one-off brief, with Ankura developed as the opening chapter of that narrative.

Byermia’s story

Byermia is an artisanal house built around natural materials, small-batch production and narrative-driven collections. Its fragrances are conceived as crafted stories rather than broad commercial releases, with an emphasis on rare ingredients, complexity and a distinctly handmade feel.

Ankura’s concept

Ankura belongs to Byermia’s Epoch Series, a 2023 collection that maps life through four stages. Here, Ankura represents youth and the idea of a sapling: newness, resilience, confidence and the uncertainty of first growth. The composition translates that theme into a green, earthy arc that moves from citrus and mint into moss, soil and smoky oud, ending in an image of an enchanted forest.

Extra info

Ankura means “sprouting” or “budding” in Sanskrit, and Byermia uses it as the youth chapter in its Epoch Series. The fragrance is also described in some markets as “Ever Young,” and it is still in production.