Lemongrass & pandan, in a body lotion

Lemongrass & pandan is the scent of a Singapore morning. Bright lemongrass on the citrus edge, the milky-green sweetness of pandan underneath — two notes a kitchen already knows by heart, carried softly onto skin and held there through the day.

In a body lotion, the pairing softens. It is still Singaporean; it is no longer breakfast.

Belantara Mango Butter Hand & Body Lotion is the lighter of our two bases — built to sit well on Singapore skin without trapping humidity against it. Mango butter, pressed from kernels inside the mango seeds the fruit industry discards, layered with tamanu oil for repair, copaiba for calm, passion fruit seed oil for lightness, and hyaluronic acid so the water stays where it should. Sulphate-free, paraben-free, silicone-free.

The Lemongrass & Pandan scent is the one for people who already live here. Most perfume briefs reach for frangipani, jasmine, ylang ylang when they want to say "tropical"; we wanted a scent that said "home". Lemongrass lifts the top, pandan grounds the middle with its familiar milky-green softness — the smell you walk past in a hawker centre at nine in the morning and remember for the rest of the day.

Made in small runs, in Singapore, in recyclable aluminium bottles.

A lotion that smells like the city you are in.

There is a quiet pleasure in wearing a scent that belongs to the place you live. Most body care reaches for neutral — clean, unplaceable, carried easily to anywhere. Lemongrass & Pandan does not. It smells unmistakably of Southeast Asia; more specifically, of the island we compose it on.

That specificity is the quiet point of it. In the morning, on skin, the lotion is not a generic idea of "tropical". It is a lemongrass stalk bent in half, a pandan leaf knotted into a pot of rice, the kitchen of whichever auntie taught you how to cook. The lotion softens that memory into something a silk shirt can live with — but the memory is still there, sitting just beneath the scent.

aired with the Lemongrass & Pandan Hand & Body Cleanser, the ritual opens fully — wash first, lotion second, with a breath between them. The scent lands deeper that way, and the freshness carries further into the day.

If you are beginning with a single product, we would suggest the lotion. The wash is the introduction to the scent; the lotion is where it settles in and becomes a signature.