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History
Pekji was officially founded in 2018 in Istanbul by Ömer İpekçi, but the story begins earlier. Around 2013 this trained graphic designer and illustrator, a self-taught perfumer, composed in small batches he shared discreetly, slowly building an underground reputation among enthusiasts. The name Pekji is a phonetic play on his surname, İpekçi.
The brand took shape in 2018 with the collection Re:Collection, five perfumes on memory and identity that revisit familiar genres through the filter of recollection. Several of these compositions, such as Ruh, Odoon and EauMer, already existed in their underground 2015 versions, which explains the two dates sometimes attached to them.
Ömer İpekçi claims a dense, tactile perfumery, which he describes as aggressive, emotional and ambient. All his creations are extraits de parfum, designed first to connect with the wearer. His palette is meant to be inclusive, never excluding a material for its cost, naturalness or rarity, and draws readily on Anatolian olfactory traditions.
In 2021 the house opened a second collection, Reset, around renewal and introspection, with more abstract compositions that deliberately step away from classic genres. Pekji remains an independent, small-batch house, shipped directly from Istanbul and through a network of selective retailers internationally.
A conceptual perfumery in extraits
Pekji stands out for a conceptual approach: each perfume carries a theme, a memory or a psychological state, and the collections are built as coherent sets. Re:Collection (2018) explores memory and identity; Reset (2021) deals with renewal and introspection, in a more abstract language.
Choosing the extrait de parfum for the whole range reflects a search for density and material. Ömer İpekçi embraces compositions with strong presence, where texture matters as much as the note, and where intimate experience comes before social signalling.
This double dimension, conceptual and material-led, anchors Pekji among the most singular emerging Turkish houses, at the crossroads of olfactory art and niche perfumery.
Perfumes
The collection gathers extraits signed by Ömer İpekçi, from the underground 2015 versions to the Re:Collection (2018) and Reset (2021) lines. Here are the most identifiable.
| Year | Perfume | Perfumer | Olfactory family |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Ruh | Ömer İpekçi | Rosy oriental |
| 2015 | Odoon | Ömer İpekçi | Smoky wood |
| 2015 | EauMer | Ömer İpekçi | Aromatic marine |
| 2015 | Holy Shit | Ömer İpekçi | Incense oriental |
| 2018 | Battaniye | Ömer İpekçi | Amber wood |
| 2018 | Zeybek | Ömer İpekçi | Tobacco leather |
| 2020 | Untitled | Ömer İpekçi | Woody oriental |
| 2021 | Flesh | Ömer İpekçi | Skin musk |
Signature
Pekji’s signature lies in dense, tactile, high-projection extraits that Ömer İpekçi conceives as objects of intimate relation rather than social signals. A self-taught perfumer from graphic design, he treats perfume as a material to sculpt, where texture matters as much as the note.
His deliberately inclusive palette blends natural and synthetic materials, Anatolian traditions (woods, resins, oriental roses) and contemporary experiments. The conceptual collections, from Re:Collection to Reset, give the whole a strong narrative coherence.
A graphic designer turned self-taught perfumer who sculpts, in Istanbul, dense and conceptual extraits, midway between olfactory art and niche perfumery.