At Salon Art + Design, the journey moves between continents, eras, and artistic traditions—with BAOBAB Collection adding a sensory dimension through fragrance.
BAOBAB COLLECTION at Salon Art + Design’s 15th-edition Collectors Vernissage, Park Avenue Armory, New York, November 4, 2026. Photography by Matt Harrington.
The objects we bring home often reveal where we have been—or where we would like to go. A particular color recalls a landscape; a patterned surface suggests an architectural detail glimpsed abroad. With BAOBAB Collection, those associations take shape in glass, then unfold through fragrance.
It is an approach that feels especially at home at Salon Art + Design, where the house becomes the first Exclusive Scent Partner in the fair’s fifteen-year history. For its landmark edition, Salon provides a distinguished international stage for a brand that approaches the candle as an object of art, with a fragrance that becomes part of the room around it.
BAOBAB Collection was conceived in Tanzania in 2002, drawing inspiration from the country’s colors, landscapes and scents. Creative development takes place in Belgium, where references gathered from nature and travel inform a distinctly decorative sensibility. Hand-blown glass, hand-poured candles and fragrances developed in Grasse bring that vision into focus.
Travel, here, is a starting point for interpretation. A landscape becomes a palette, a material suggests a pattern, and the finished piece finds its own life within an interior. The person choosing it supplies the final context: a favorite table, an unexpected grouping, a room assembled over time.
At Salon, Sand Siloli, Stones Marble and Les Exclusives Aurum offer three distinct expressions of the house’s imagination.
Sand Siloli carries the quiet drama of a desert landscape. Beige and brown markings move around its hand-blown glass in irregular horizontal lines, recalling the colors of the Siloli Desert. Variations formed during the making give each vessel its own character, inviting the eye to follow the surface.
Its fragrance combines cedarwood, tonka bean, and green lemon, with woody notes lifted by a citrus accent. The appeal is transportive yet easy to live with: a suggestion of open space expressed through an object that feels intimate in scale.
Siloli’s restrained palette leaves room for the things around it. Beside wood, linen, or a graphic artwork, its earthy markings establish a relationship without dictating the room. That adaptability is part of its charm; the reference remains recognizable, while the setting makes it personal.
As the exclusive signature scent of The Surrey, A Corinthia Hotel, New York, Sand Siloli also connects BAOBAB Collection’s presence at Salon to the city’s luxury interiors. Across hospitality and design, the fragrance contributes to the impression of a place thoughtfully considered.
Stones Marble takes a more architectural turn. Its hand-blown glass interprets marble’s veining and contrasts, giving a familiar material an intriguing new expression. There is pleasure in the translation: the suggestion of stone, rendered in glass that responds to the light.
Its leathery scent combines leather, rose and plum, adding depth, floral character and fruit. Together, vessel and fragrance give the collection a confident presence—the sort of piece that can hold its own among books, ceramics and objects acquired on different journeys.
Les Exclusives Aurum brings a more dressed-up sensibility. Golden glass catches the light, while jasmine, galbanum and musk compose a soft floral fragrance. It suggests the pleasures of evening: flowers on the table, a reflective surface among quieter textures, the anticipation of company.
Aurum’s finish continues to contribute when the candle is unlit. That lasting visual role matters across the house’s collections. The vessel is chosen for its artistry and remains part of the interior, with fragrance adding another experience to an object already admired.
An investment in BAOBAB Collection is an investment in art for the home, expressed through craftsmanship and the pleasure of living with a chosen piece. Its appeal develops through use and familiarity, as the object becomes part of the room’s rituals.
For Salon Art + Design, the partnership adds a sensory dimension to the anniversary edition. Fragrance complements the visual richness of the works on view, giving visitors another way to experience the fair and its theme, “Fifteen Years of Artful Living.”
The celebrations opened on Monday, November 2, in the Wintergarden at Waldorf Astoria Residences New York, followed by the Collectors Vernissage on Wednesday, November 4, at the Park Avenue Armory. The fair continues through November 8.
Becoming Salon’s first Exclusive Scent Partner brings BAOBAB Collection’s identity into focus: a house whose stories are carried through craftsmanship, artistic vessels and fragrance. On this international stage, scent takes its place within the decorative arts.
The vessel holds its place among the arts; the fragrance gives the room a signature of its own.
