The Bite Magazine - Spring/Summer 2026 - Issue 39

biteperfume Images courtesy of Dakota Digital To deepen the experience, Tulpa Club has released a short film and curated playlists that extend each fragrance beyond scent alone. Every bottle includes a collectable card featuring artwork and a QR code linking directly to the film and music, with licensed tracks from Darksoft, Requisit and Basecamp shaping the sonic landscape. “Perfume has always felt closest to music for me,” Sameer added. “A scent can pull someone back into a very specific feeling almost instantly. The film and playlists help widen that emotional world a little further.” Season 3 is available in 15 ml, 50 ml and gift set formats, with the accompanying short film accessible on the website. https://tulpaclub.com The three fragrances, Late Checkout, Moonlight Static and Night Drive, are designed to stand alone while forming part of a wider narrative shaped by analogue photography, VHS textures and neon-lit 1980s nightscapes. “I think of each Tulpa Club Season almost like an album,” Sameer said. “The fragrance is the centrepiece, but the film, music, and artwork all help build the emotional setting around it. With Season 3, I wanted to make something quieter and more intimate: not a traditional aspirational perfume story, but something emotionally recognisable.” Late Checkout captures the stillness of a room at the end of the night, layering warm bedsheets, faded roses, powdery musk, saffron, tobacco and sandalwood into a soft, linge- ring haze. Moonlight Static moves colder, blending salted coastal air, damp cedar, moss, herbs and fading musk to recreate the uneasy silence of an empty beach after dark. Night Drive closes the trilogy with hot exhaust smoke, grape candy, suede, tobacco and wet asphalt, distilling the tension of driving forward while mentally looping back.