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Mohamed Abdo

محمد عبده

Founder and perfumer · Maydi House

A Somali perfume designer whose compositions are inventive, with a classic character. He founded Maydi House in Mogadishu to carry Somali fragrance to the world.

The house believes perfume is an art before it is a product.

Mohamed Abdo trained in perfume design through courses in the craft.

He has created original fragrance compositions, collaborated with perfume houses across the Arab Gulf, and serves today as a fragrance innovation consultant.

At Maydi House he leads the Atelier, where brands come to him for a fragrance of their own, and he signs a private collection under his name.

His perfumes

Compositions designed by Mohamed Abdo. Both Timbroses are offered through the Atelier as ready formulas for brands, and Timbrose II also sits in his private collection as numbered bottles.

Timbrose II and Timbrose side by side: two black bottles with gold labels, one with a flared black cap and one with a round wooden cap
Creations waiting for winter. Timbrose II and Timbrose, 30 ml each. Every bottle of Timbrose II is numbered out of 12.

Curriculum vitae

The full CV will be published here. What we can already state:

  1. TrainingCourses in perfume design
  2. CollaborationsPerfume houses across the Arab Gulf
  3. TodayFragrance innovation consultant; founder of Maydi House, Mogadishu
  4. Dates and detailsTo come from Mohamed Abdo

Archive, interviews and articles

A private archive of photographs, the interviews he has given and the articles written about him. This part of the page fills as material arrives.

Timbrose II lying on brown tartan cloth beside a leather wallet, a wristwatch, a gold coin and a wooden frame
Timbrose II lying on dark blue denim beside a leather wallet, a wristwatch and a gold coin
Timbrose II lying on grey cloth beside round spectacles, a key ring, a gold brooch and an old book
Timbrose II in a slant of sunlight on grey cloth beside a wristwatch and a black gift box tied with ribbon
Timbrose II seen from above on grey cloth, with a wristwatch with Arabic numerals, a pen, a book on Henri Cartier-Bresson and the edge of a denim jacket
A close view of the Timbrose II label, numbered 8 of 12, in low light

Timbrose II, in the house's own photographs.

Archive

Photographs of the perfumes are above. More from the lab, the trees and the work to come.

Interviews

Press and video interviews. To come.

Articles · Treasures of Nature 1

Frankincense, tears of gold

By Mohamed Abdo: the frankincense the house is named after, and what a 2021 study of twelve trees found in it.

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