Ambient Sauna Scent

The relationship between sauna and scent

We think of the sauna as a ritual to reboot the body and mind, going back and forth between hot and cold water, silence and stimulation, consciousness and unconsciousness. What enriches this delicate time between "extremeness and silence" is scent.

As people who live alongside the forest, we at HIKOBAYU wanted to deliver a scent that accompanies this time.
It is the very breath of a living forest that can never be expressed with artificial fragrances.

The essential oil is made from Japanese cedar trees, which are cut down and distilled by lumberjacks who go into the mountains and talk to the trees. It is a fragrance created by nature, full of wildness, born from sustainable forest management, not through chemicals or mass production.

This scent gently envelops the space rather than dominating it.
It also helps you to deepen your breathing, open your senses, and go deep within yourself.
We propose this type of fragrance.

Based on this idea, we created three scents for the special experience of sauna.
Each blend will free your senses and bring your body and mind to harmony.

Ambient Sauna - A time to become one with the scent

As a nurse, I have worked in the field of end-of-life care and have had the experience of accompanying many people during their final moments.
The time that passed there was so quiet and gentle that it is difficult to put into words.
A peaceful moment where shortness of breath and pain disappear and your mind and body remain in the present.
This experience has greatly changed the way I view scent.

I actually feel that the feeling of "getting into the zone" in a sauna overlaps with that time.
We want to deliver a fragrance that will gently support you through this time.

We hope that we can support you in getting back in touch with your body and mind while being surrounded by the breath of nature.

Every life has an end.
But I've come to feel that every ending is connected to a new beginning.

Even if a tree is cut down, life will sprout again, like a **branch**.
The name HIKOBAYU is imbued with our feelings about this cycle of life.

Take a deep breath and let the breath of nature fill your lungs.
May the fragrance gently accompany you during these times.
We created three scents for the special space of a sauna.
Each scent gently accompanies deep breathing and quietly blends into the space.

Ambient Sauna Scent

A scent does not fill a space, but rather floats gently between the space and the senses.
Not concealing anything, not talking too much, just being quiet.

Ambient Sauna Scent is like a presence that emerges from the space and touches your heart before you know it.
As you take a deep breath, the contours of your body begin to loosen. As if listening carefully to a silent voice, a feeling dormant deep in your heart begins to quietly awaken.

This fragrance touches not the space, but "people." The moment when a person wavers, the moment when they stop, the moment when they suddenly return to themselves. This fragrance gently embraces all of these moments.

The name "Ambient" expresses our hope that it will be a switch that blurs the contours of existence and opens up the senses.

Shinji Wakasa, a musician who represents Japan's ambient scene, resonated with this worldview and expressed it in the form of sound.

The overlapping sounds of nature and the breath of the forest were carefully field recorded in the HIKOBAYU forests and the wilderness of Hokkaido.
A dialogue of voices, or rather a dialogue of voices, between the trees, expressed through music, spanning time and resonating far into the distance.

Aroma is born from the forest and is the result of a conversation between trees transformed into music; it is a special piece of music woven together, note by note, with sounds that resonate with the sense of scent.

The full version of this original song, "Echoes," is available exclusively to purchasers by scanning the QR code inside the box.

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Concept movie

Three scent spaces

We have created three different "fragrant spaces" to accompany the special time spent in the sauna.
Each scent is based on fir essential oil, which is imbued with the breath of the forest, and gently opens the senses, deepens breathing, and leads to the depths of the body and mind.
It is not just a fragrance, but "a small ritual that fills the space and awakens the senses."
When you want to be enveloped in silence. When you want to let the air flow through your mind. When you want to gently descend into the depths of yourself.
Depending on the "space" you need, the scent will open the door.

White Ambient

WHITE AMBIENT

A silent, white space.
There is nothing, and yet everything is there.
A moment of calm, as if the soul was breathing.


WHITE AMBIENT is the "core fragrance" that HIKOBAYU holds dear.

Born from HIKOBAYU's view of life and death, this fragrance gently illuminates the place where "the end" and "the beginning" quietly intersect.

As you regulate your breathing and surrender yourself to the soundless silence, your senses gradually begin to relax inward.

White for healing, white for prayer, white for rebirth —
It is a deep spiritual space all to yourself, a place where light gently envelopes everything.

WHITE AMBIENT is a fragrance that not only blends into the space, but also becomes a part of your everyday life.
This blend will also be developed into a cosmetics line that delivers HIKOBAYU's fragrance philosophy to the skin.

A fragrance that gently fills your life like a quiet light.

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Lime Chamber

LIME CHAMBER

The moment you place your bare feet on the sand, the air loosens with the sound of lime popping.


LIME CHAMBER is a light and free-spirited scent that will instantly flip a switch on your senses.

The refreshing taste of Japanese Sakhalin fir is accented with the sparkle of lime and the bitterness of hops.

What unfolds there is a rough and eccentric "playful space," reminiscent of a breeze on the beach.

Your curiosity will grow and your heart will become lighter. The "exhilaration of being in harmony" will gently emerge.

When you want to add some humor to your daily rhythm, when you want to reset your mood, when you want to rediscover your true self in casual moments.

LIME CHAMBER will gently support you during such moments.

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Glacier Mountain

GLACIER MOUNTAIN

A clear blue sky, an icy wind caressing the skin, and the quiet scent of the earth, where snow and rocks mix together.

GLACIER MOUNTAIN is not just a refreshing, cool scent.
Deep within the coolness of the mint lies a "quiet wildness" reminiscent of earth, rocks, and dampness. It is a modern, instinctive fragrance that combines dirtiness and coolness.
It brings a sense of quiet luxury and strength to the sauna space.

GLACIER MOUNTAIN was born from HIKOBAYU's memories of the great outdoors he experienced in the Canadian Rockies. Despite it being midsummer, there was still snow there, the sky was endless, the air was sharp, and the smell of the earth rose quietly from the rock faces.


In this era of advancing global warming, we hope that through this fragrance you will suddenly feel the preciousness of time spent with nature.

The clear sky, the cold wind, the silent earth. All of these things clear the senses and calm the mind. GLACIER MOUNTAIN is another form of "Totonoi."

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For sauna facilities ─ What scents bring to your space

Scent gives meaning to a space and profoundly changes the time spent there.

The type of scent you choose to embrace can greatly change the atmosphere of a space, the memories it evokes, and the quality of the experience itself.

Born from the forests of Hokkaido, Japanese Sakhalin fir essential oil has a scent that evokes tranquility and peace.
Its clear scent deepens your breathing and evokes the "sense of returning to the forest" that is remembered in your olfactory memory.

We would like to provide this Ambient Sauna Scent to as many people as possible so that they can enjoy a moment of relaxation.

We hope that by introducing this scent to sauna facilities, it will help to further enrich the sensory experience of users and deepen spiritual healing.

At HIKOBAYU, we offer wholesale prices to facilities and also send fragrance samples .
We also provide OEM (original product development) services tailored to your needs, as well as consulting on the best scent design for your space . If you are considering introducing our products, please feel free to contact us.

We hope that the small spark of fragrance can help bring about a subtle change in a space and in people's hearts.

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We also offer products for hot spring facilities, such as large-volume blends for sauna loyly.

Please feel free to contact us with any inquiries regarding sample requests, development of original blends, wholesale, etc.

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