Nishane

House Summary

Nishane was founded in Istanbul in September 2012 by Murat Katran, a former steel-industry export manager who discovered oud while travelling the Gulf, and Mert Güzel, who had built a luxury hotel chain — the two met at a friend's party in 2010. Positioned as Istanbul's first niche house, it launched publicly in 2015 and works almost exclusively in extrait-strength concentrations with bright, colour-coded packaging. Rather than one house perfumer, it commissions a rotating set of noses, giving the catalogue real stylistic range without losing a shared identity of density and craft. It bridges Middle Eastern richness with French niche construction.