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Address: 62-3 Motomachi, Niseko-cho, Abuta-gun, Hokkaido
Email address: info@hikobayu.com
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.
Drifting with scents and sounds,Awaken the mind.
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.
サウナから生まれた3つの香り
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.
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.
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.
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."
サウナ施設に選ばれる6つの理由
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1|森を知る者が調える、サウナ専用ブレンド
森に入り、枝葉を蒸留する、トドマツ精油を最も知る私たちが、サウナの熱と湿度や情緒に合わせて調香しています。
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2|プロサウナーからの評価
ニコーリフレの"熱波師くみちょ"より、
「ととのいへ誘導する香りとして非常に優れている」との評価をいただいています。 -
3|“あの施設の香り”になる
ととのいの瞬間に重なる香りは、その場所の記憶になる。嗅覚は感情や記憶と直結する感覚。空間と結びついた香りが、再訪の理由をつくります。
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4|自然に物販へつながる
「日常でも使いたい」と手に取っていただける香り。体験がそのまま購買へと結びつき、売上に貢献します。
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5|自然に寄り添う、確かな背景
HIKOBAYUは自伐型林業を実践。
森に還元するものづくりの姿勢が、施設のブランド価値を高めます。 -
6|余韻が、日常へ続く設計
サウナ → 外気浴 → 日常の深呼吸。
体験の静かな余韻が、自然に日常へとつながります。
香り×アンビエントミュージック
静寂の中で、香りと音が重なり合う。
Ambient Sauna Scentの世界観に呼応し、アンビエントシーンを引率する音楽家Shinji Wakasaが楽曲を制作。
森のフィールドレコーディングから生まれた音。
香りは森から生まれ、音は森へ還る。
ひとつの呼吸のなかで、余白の中で、静かに響きあいます。
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特別楽曲「Echoes」をお楽しみいただけます。
Concept movie
HIKOBAYUについて
Aromas born from forestry creation with an eye to a sustainable future. By using HIKOBAYU craft aromas, you are indirectly supporting forest creation* and supporting sustainable efforts. *A portion of the sales of HIKOBAYU products is used for forestry projects that protect and nurture forests.
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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.
サンプル請求、オリジナルブレンドの開発、卸売りなど各種ご相談、お気軽にお問い合わせください。
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