Pekji

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History of the house

Pekji was officially founded in 2018 in Istanbul by Ömer İpekçi, but the story begins earlier. Around 2013 he 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, on memory and identity, which revisits 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.

The founder and the collections

Ömer İpekçi was born in Istanbul (Turkey). Before perfumery he worked as a graphic designer and illustrator, and had sought expression in many mediums since childhood. He says perfume gave him the medium where he could hide the expression underneath the form and function.

The launch collection, Re:Collection (2018), brings together five perfumes on memory and identity. It is now in its second edition, renamed Re:Re:Collection. Reset (2021) brings together four perfumes, Blacklight, Flesh, Yes, Please and Purpl, inspired by common but abstract human experiences.

In November 2026, the Parfumo database lists 12 Pekji perfumes, all credited to Ömer İpekçi. It dates the underground versions of Ruh, Odoon, EauMer, Holy Shit and Cuir6 to 2015, and the limited edition Untitled to 2020.

The web shop ships only within Turkey. For international buyers, the house points to its stockists: Luckyscent in the United States, Stefano Saccani in Italy, The Perfumery Barcelona in Spain, Parfum d’Ambre in Belgium and LKNU in Australia. In Turkey it is sold at Galeries Lafayette Istanbul, among others.

Notable 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.

Olfactory signature

Pekji’s signature lies in dense, tactile, high-projection extraits that Ömer İpekçi conceives as objects of intimate relation rather than social signals. 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, Turkish rose) and contemporary experiments. The collections are built as coherent sets, each carrying a theme: Re:Collection (2018) explores memory and identity, Reset (2021) renewal and introspection in a more abstract language.

An Istanbul house that sculpts dense, conceptual extraits, midway between olfactory art and niche perfumery.

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See also

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Sources

• Pekji: About us page, founding and biography (official site)
• The Sniff: Pekji brand guide, Istanbul
• The Sniff: the Reset line from Pekji
• ÇaFleureBon: Re:Collection and Ömer İpekçi’s biography
• Olfactory Art Keller: Ömer İpekçi biography
• Fragrantica: Pekji house page
• Fragrantica: Pekji, an indie brand from Istanbul (Sergey Borisov, 2018)
• Fragrantica: Untitled, Pekji’s limited edition (Sergey Borisov, 2020)
• Pekji: “Stockists” page (stockists by country), accessed 5 November 2026
• Parfumo: Pekji catalog (12 perfumes and years), accessed 5 November 2026