BEHIND EVERY WORLD WE CREATE, THERE ARE TWO OF US.
What holds us together is, above all, love. Then curiosity about the world. Travel. Beautiful objects. Architecture. Good design. And a conviction that everyday life is capable of astonishing you — you only have to find a moment to really look at it.
We have been building JF Pisarczyk 1925 together for years.
Each of us sees the world a little differently. Every world we create is born precisely of those different points of view.
AGNIESZKA
For most of my life I was looking for a way into my own creativity. For a long time I thought I simply did not have any. It was only when I found painting that I understood it had always been there. It just needed the right language.
Today that language is scent. I changed the medium, nothing else. The way I work has stayed the same. It still begins with wonder. Sometimes at the light. Sometimes at the colour of the sky. Sometimes at the worn-smooth stones of a medieval town...
It is that wonder I tell in scent.
PAWEŁ
Paweł is a designer.
History, architecture and design have fascinated him for as long as I can remember.
He likes to know why places look the way they do. He sees things I often walk straight past.
Sometimes we stand side by side and look at exactly the same thing for several minutes.
And then each of us tells it slightly differently. That, I think, is why we work so well together.
Our scents are not born at a drawing table, or from a list of ingredients.
They are born much earlier. In travels. In conversations. In moments of wonder. In the things we are still talking about long after we come home.
That is where the scents and the perfumes come from — all the worlds we create.
"Everything we create grows out of what we have lived, seen and felt. Real experience is where each of our next projects begins."
SMELL
Fragrances are an invitation to embark on a journey in which each note inspires the senses and imagination. Far from the beaten track, it encourages you to follow their projection and discover unexpected harmonies and dissonances.
Scents are a unique way in which we perceive and interpret the world around us. Creating fragrances gives us the opportunity to express ourselves and communicate with our recipients. For us, it is another form of artistic expression like visual arts, music or literature, only in an olfactory form.
TRAVELS
Travel is and has always been a huge inspiration for us. The desire to know what lies beyond the horizon invariably drives us to action. It doesn't matter whether they are the savannahs of Africa, the forests of the Amazon or the islands of the Pacific. It doesn't matter whether they are the streets of a forgotten town in the Carpathians, the untamed chaos of a favela or the underground cathedrals of Cenotes flooded with water. It is important that we discover our world.
We also travel in time, into the past, into the depths of art and knowledge of everything that surrounds us and moves us.
The 19th century philosopher Thoreau stated that nothing gives a sense of meaning and purpose like passion in everyday life.
HERITAGE
When JF Pisarczyk opened his first store in Kielce in 1925, his philosophy was simple: buy the best. This philosophy has stayed with us, close to our heart, to this day, fueling our belief in quality and innovation.
It all started with the Colonial Store, opened nearly 100 years ago in Kielce by young Jan Fryderyk Pisarczyk. In the shop on Śniadeckich Street you could get luxury products from all over the world. The interior smelled of spices and chocolate. There were cans with colorful labels and bottles of French wines on the shelves. In the following years, two more shops and a restaurant were opened. Among the scents there was an unforgettable aroma of teas and Brazilian coffee.
The war came and everything went to hell! And then...
Unfortunately, the times of the Polish People's Republic were not kind. The then authorities took over all the property of the Colonial Depot. Therefore, after 1946, Jan Fryderyk was forced to pursue his commercial talent and love for the highest quality products by working as a cashier in a self-service store...
The smell of orange and cloves disappeared for many years.
10 years after the death of Jan Fryderyk, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Jan's son, Jacek Pisarczyk, tried to resurrect the family business. The implementation of ambitious plans was interrupted by Jacek's premature and unexpected departure. For the next quarter of a century, the memory of unique scents from all over the world mixed with the noble aroma of wood of shop furniture was covered with the dust of history...
Until 2020, when the next generation of the family decided to re-establish the JF Pisarczyk 1925 Kolonial Store with its motto - buy the best and unforgettable fragrance combinations that have accompanied our brand from the very beginning.
