#1 Chester Gibs – Before the World Moved Again
#1 Chester Gibs – Before the World Moved Again
#1 Chester Gibs – Before the World Moved Again
Extrait de Parfum
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50 ml Edition
50 ml Extrait de Parfum – the full expression of the fragrance, created for those who want it to become part of their everyday rhythm.
Before The World Moved Again seeks to capture a human in-between moment: the quiet pause in which you suddenly hear your own pace again. Inspired by a small Balinese scene where devotion and calmness silence the noise of the world, the fragrance carries a meditative clarity and a grounded, almost ritual depth. It is complex yet open, unfolding slowly rather than declaring itself. A scent that steadies rather than overwhelms — a still place in motion. Chester Gibs composed it as a reminder that meaning rarely lies in grand gestures, but in the attention we give to life’s smallest details. This work is exactly that: a space to breathe, a moment of stillness rendered in scent.
The 50 ml edition is presented in a magnetic card box finished with Italian Favini paper, and housed in a cubic bottle with a weighty ZAMAC cap featuring an embossed New Niche logo — a restrained, precise object that supports the fragrance without overshadowing it.
Voices from our Community
Chester’s Inspiration
This perfume began with a pause.
Perfumer Chester stopped in a small Balinese alley, drawn to a woman arranging flowers and incense with quiet devotion.
The scene shifted something in him, a reminder that reflection often comes unplanned. This scent captures that moment of calm awareness, warm, meditative, softly vibrant, and gently effervescent.
The Collaboration
The Visual Artist
Each edition at New Niche is developed with a visual artist who responds to the final perfume with a work of their own. For this release, we invited painter Ivana Rubelj to interpret Before the World Moved Again in form and colour.
Born in Croatia and currently based in Stockholm, Ivana describes herself as a world citizen.
Her artistic practice explores perception, layering, and rhythm—how we move through inner and outer states of experience. She is currently studying at the Idun Lovén School of Art, one of Sweden’s most respected independent art institutions.
Her work for this edition is not a translation of scent into image, but a companion to it. Both came from the same moment. Each tells it differently.
The Olfactive Artist
Chester approaches scent the way some people approach memory — by following the quiet thread it leaves behind. What began with bottles on a shelf became a way of seeing: perfumes as colours, moods, and small shifts in atmosphere.
His work is shaped by a mixed heritage of tropical white flowers and kitchen spices, where incense, myrrh, and cinnamon were part of everyday ritual. Those notes now return in his compositions, not as decoration, but as a way of honouring where he comes from.
In each fragrance, he insists on leaving something of himself — a trace of the boy who refused to accept that flowers could be gendered, and the artist who treats perfume as a tool, not a finish.
For Chester, scent and image are parallel gestures. Both are bridges between the visible and the felt, guided by a simple motto: wherever you go, go with all your heart.
Key Qualities
OPENING
Breathing calm air and looking into the soft light
HEART
Feeling Clarity, drawn into another's quiet grace
BASE
Finding groundedness in the stillness of full presence
Available Editions
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Before the World Moved Again
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#1 Chester Gibs – Before the World Moved Again
€185,00
50 ml Edition
50 ml Extrait de Parfum – the full expression of the fragrance, created for those who want it to become...
#1 Chester Gibs – Before the World Moved Again
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2 ml Edition
2 ml in a black glass spray vial – the perfect way to discover this work for the first time.
Before The ...