Perfume & Fragrance
Global Luxury. African Soul.
An extrait de parfum house built on West African raw materials and European perfumery.
Zipper Vibe Parfum is the olfactive signature of the house: vetiver, frankincense, shea and gold amber composed in Grasse, bottled in faceted crystal and capped with the gold diamond Z. Every carton is lined with a heritage cloth print, and every bottle is refillable at the atelier.
Fashion is temporary. Identity is forever.
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20–25% perfume oil for depth and a full-day trail without heaviness.
Vetiver, frankincense, shea butter and karite sourced from partner cooperatives.
Faceted bottles are refilled and re-sealed in the atelier — the crystal is kept for life.
Each carton is lined with Bogolan mudcloth, Bazin Riche or Congolese pagne print.
Views
Colourway
Bogolan mudcloth and Baoule pagne printed across the carton lining and the cloth mist collar.
Seven views · 3D sweep
1 / 2 · Z-VIBE Parfum — Wear the vibe. Leave a trace.
Interactive 360 viewer. Left and right arrows rotate 15 degrees, hold Shift for 45, Page Up and Page Down turn a quarter, up and down arrows or plus and minus zoom, Home resets the view, Space toggles auto-rotation and F opens full screen.
Z-VIBE Parfum — Wear the vibe. Leave a trace.
Z-View 360™
Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom to loupe level, switch on material inspection to read the weave, tune the lighting rig and compare two views side by side.
Zoom · 1.0×
Studio lighting
Colourway
Opens the fitting stage with this line already selected, using these exact frames.
The range
How it works
01
Order the five-piece discovery set of the signature line.
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Book a scent consultation in-atelier or with Zipper AI.
03
Add your initials beneath the gold diamond Z on the cap.
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Return the crystal to any house address for a sealed refill.
Story behind the design
Bamana star mudcloth in brown & cream, worked into the crop neck band, left cuff, right cuff.
brown & cream
ZB-BAMA-BRO-195
Bogolanfini begins as hand-woven cotton strip cloth, joined selvedge to selvedge before it ever meets the dye. It is dyed with a n'gallama leaf bath, then river-mud fermentation over three passes — the pattern is not printed on, it is drawn in mud and then the ground around it is lifted away.
The tape carries eight-point stars set in a measured grid. In the Bamana reading, Bamana star is orientation after dark — guidance and clear intent. Z-Vibe keeps the motif at heritage scale rather than shrinking it into a logo pattern, so the hand of the maker stays legible on the finished piece.
Mudcloth is placed on construction points, never scattered as decoration: crop neck band, left cuff, right cuff, front placket. These are the lines the eye already follows on this silhouette, so the cloth reads as structure — an edge, a facing, a seam — and holds its meaning at three metres and at arm's length alike.
Each length is cut on the straight grain, mitred at the corners and felled by hand so no raw edge is left inside. Tape width and motif repeat are cut to the size band, so a petite run and an extended run carry the same proportion rather than the same measurement.
African heritage, global luxury, future design: the mudcloth is set against European finishing and the aged-gold Z-Closure™ mark. Nothing is erased on either side — the meeting is the design. Different Roots. One Human Story.
Care · Spot-clean the mudcloth with cool water and a soft cloth. Dry-clean the body of the piece; the tape is colour-set but not bleach-safe.
Each step below reflects work that actually exists for this piece. Refinement is a design process — it does not imply the piece is production-released.
Owner-approved design board intakeIn progress
Registered from the collection register entry; the full design board is still being filed.
Z-Sole Architecture™ assignmentComplete
Sole identity resolved for this style — Z-Grip™ Parfum Cut (ZG-2517) on the Z-Grip™ lugged rubber chassis, longitudinal rail flutes with a scalloped braking heel, tapered aerodynamic last with a raked heel breast, stack 34 mm heel / 22 mm forefoot, 12 mm drop, laced in narrow Bogolan ribbon lace with a hand-knotted stopper, diamond Z at the lateral wall, Z-VIBE at the medial wall. Tread, last and stack height were made unique to the shoe rather than shared across the register.
Bogolan signature verificationComplete
Mudcloth was confirmed as a construction detail (laces, panel, tongue or heel band) and not surface print, and the aged-gold Z-Closure™ mark was placed.
Z-Studio 4K refinement passNot yet run
No refinement output released yet — this page reads the approved board unretouched.
Seven-view studio captureNot yet run
No angle has been shot yet; all 7 views read the design board.
Questions
Available finishes
Heritage signature
Bogolan mudcloth and Baoule pagne printed across the carton lining and the cloth mist collar.
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