Osmoteka de Tantea

Osmoteka

Osmoteka Warsaw

It appeared the way memories do — suddenly and for ever.
Once it became clear: perfume is not a thing.
It is art, it is inspiration.
And it needed a home — a place where it could breathe
without fear of being erased by a coarse present.

Thus Osmoteka was born.
Here the space rustles with stories
like old newspapers in the wind,
and the air carries the scent of candles, incense and morning coffee.
A record sighs on the gramophone,
and it seems that love itself moves the needle.

Osmoteka art cafe

Art Café

Osmoteka Warsaw

Osmoteka Café is small, intimate, and deliberately unhurried.
Soft light. Old furniture. Black-and-white films.
Books. Candles.
Paintings on the walls — all available to be looked at, lived with, and taken home.
Our menu is inspired by artists, composers and perfumers —
Monet, Van Gogh, Dalí, Chopin, Edmond Roudnitska.
Coffee, tea, homemade desserts and quiet conversations.
People often come for a coffee — and stay for hours.

Osmoteka de Tantea

Excursions

We show how centuries smell.
How smoke rose to the sky in Egypt.
How, in the Paris of la Belle Époque, roses brushed against gloves.
How secrets hid in Indian spices.
How the stone chill of Austrian cathedrals settled over the cobblestones.
You walk beside us — and hear how the past breathes.

Osmoteka de Tantea

Consultations

There are no borrowed fragrances.
Each person is a novel of their own.
I merely translate that novel into scent.
And you will recognise your fragrance
as suddenly as one recognises a single gaze in a crowd.

Osmoteka de Tantea

The store

I gather bottles as a collector gathers letters.
French vintages, Canadian boldness, English restraint,
even the quiet weekdays of great cities.
You will not find them on the first shelves of chain boutiques.
They live only here — in Osmoteka, in my selection.

miss Tantea
Osmoteka de Tantea

Atmosphere

Flower tea.
Coffee brewed from a family recipe.
And stories.
Of palaces raised in the name of the same love.
Of victories won for that love.
Of lavender, desert roses and books
that outlive those who wrote them.

Osmoteka de Tantea

Osmoteka
de Tantea

is not a memory but a beginning —
the first breath of a new Renaissance,
returning art to its pedestal and rekindling hearts.