Dekito
“Every great perfume should tell a story.”
He came out of IT, fell in during the pandemic, and now runs two houses at once: one where he tells his own stories, and one where he helps other people tell theirs.
The formula came later
Before the two houses there was a man in IT, a pandemic, and one bottle that rearranged what he thought perfume was for.
Dekito did not arrive through a family business or a school. He arrived through one bottle during the pandemic, when everyone was indoors and small obsessions had room to grow. A friend suggested the business side. Curiosity turned into raw materials, formulas, technique, and then a community of people who took the subject as seriously as he had started to. Solivagant came out of that, his own house, where every release is a chapter of his own life. Ecofragrantica came after, a studio in Cileungsi where he develops fragrance for other people and sells the materials to make it. He is thirty minutes from Bogor and about a thousand formulas in.
The playlist he sent, to sit beside the first chapter.
Fragrance has become my way of preserving memories. Every perfume I create begins with a feeling, a place, or a moment that deserves to be remembered. For me, scent is one of the most personal forms of storytelling.
Every perfume I create begins with a feeling, a place, or a moment that deserves to be remembered.
Bright, cologne-clean, a little bitter under the sweetness. It is doing everything it will ever do, right now.
Pantura, one of my creations under Solivagant, is inspired by the long drives along Indonesia’s northern coastal road whenever I travelled back home. The changing landscape, warm breeze, roadside stops, and the feeling of returning became the emotional foundation of the fragrance. Every time I smell it, I remember that journey.
Petrol, hot asphalt, and the coffee you drank standing up because you were already late.
These days I mostly wear my own creations because they reflect what I’m exploring creatively at the moment. I also enjoy warm compositions with boozy, woody, and amber nuances. They feel comforting, confident, and timeless.
Before starting my day, I spend a few minutes smelling raw materials. It’s my daily olfactory training that keeps my nose sharp. After that, I usually study fragrance formulas, blend new trials, and continue developing perfumes for Solivagant and fragrance projects at Ecofragrantica.
Good taste isn’t about owning the rarest perfume or knowing every niche brand. It’s about wearing something that feels right for you. When a fragrance gives you comfort, confidence, and feels authentic to who you are, that’s good taste.
Every great perfume should tell a story. A pleasant scent may be remembered for a moment, but a meaningful fragrance stays with people long after it disappears.
Aroma sebagai objek kenangan.
Solivagant is his own house, and it is named for a word that means a person who wanders alone. Everything in it starts as something that happened to him.
Where he tells his own stories
A shelf that keeps growing, bottles finished by hand, and a series built on the eleven metres of Javanese poetry. He is the only person in it.
In his words: Solivagant is a space where he translates his own memories, journeys and emotions into fragrance. Each perfume begins with a story from his life. Pantura came out of the drive home. Every release, he says, is a chapter of a personal journey captured in a bottle. The Instagram bio says the rest of it in five words: unveiling the essence of solitude.
Rasa di Atas Formula.
Feeling above formula. Kami tidak mengejar tren atau selera pasar. Setiap fragrance SOLIVAGANT adalah sebuah atmosfer, dirakit dari obsesi, intuisi, dan keyakinan bahwa parfum seharusnya mengubah cara kamu membawa diri di sebuah ruangan.
We do not chase trends or the taste of the market. Every Solivagant fragrance is an atmosphere, assembled out of obsession, intuition, and the belief that a perfume should change the way you carry yourself in a room.
The first metre of the Macapat cycle, and the first perfume of a series that intends to walk a whole life. His own caption for it: a picture of the life of a foetus inside the mother.
Solivagant Extended
Everything leaving the studio right now carries this label. There is no main line and no second line under it: Extended is simply what Solivagant is at the moment. The bottles are finished by hand, so no two of them leave identical.
Gold floating in water. The child not yet born, suspended, entirely dependent, with no say in anything. Sung in a metre that is heavy and full of sorrow.
Mostly neutral, with a tenth each of the two local distillates. Clean lift, and a faint sugarcane warmth underneath that a lab alcohol would never give you.
Five moods, not five families
Solivagant does not sort its shelf by note pyramid. It sorts by how you want to feel, which is a quietly radical thing for a perfume shop to do.
Under the first of them, the site simply says: clean citrus, soft musk, and a light texture for everyday wear. No pyramid, no top-heart-base, no lecture.
Wujudkan aroma yang menjadi identitas.
Where he helps other people tell theirs
Solivagant is one man and his own shelf. Ecofragrantica is a room in Cileungsi with four hundred and fifty raw materials, fifty brand partners and a thousand formulas behind it, all of it in its first year. He co-founded it, and it is where most of his week goes.
His own summary is the cleanest one anybody has written: if Solivagant is where I tell my own stories, Ecofragrantica is where I help others tell theirs through scent. The studio’s own line is about opening a closed trade: it exists, they say, to make perfumery more open and more structured, on the belief that every brand deserves access to good materials and a professional development process rather than a factory that will not show its workings.
Perfume classes for beginners, for communities, and for brands that want to understand scent with some direction rather than by guessing. Listed on the site as coming soon.
Choose one, two or three materials above.
Limus Nunggal, Cileungsi, Bogor
I believe perfumery is a lifelong journey of learning. Every material has its own personality, every formula teaches something new, and every perfume is an opportunity to preserve a memory.
He hopes the fragrances he makes become part of someone else’s story, the way other people’s fragrances became part of his. Given that he starts every morning by smelling raw materials before he speaks to anyone, the odds are good.