Revered as perhaps the greatest tea master of Japan, Sen Rikyū refined the art of tea into its highest artistic expression. One of the most well-known masters of Sakai, Rikyū served as tea master to Japan’s first two great unifiers, Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi. His development of wabi-cha, the “tea of quiet taste,” serves as the basis of Japan’s famous tea ceremony still practiced today over four centuries after his death. An expression of wabi natural simplicity portrayed through fragrance, the Rikyū Kaori series seeks to bring the spirit of Rikyū to Japanese fragrance culture.