Troye Sivan is not any stranger to homesickness. Before the age at which a lot of us leave home, the Rush singer was travelling the world, forging his profession in entertainment. Having previously worked from his bedroom in Perth, posting vlogs on YouTube, he was now spending long stints away from his home and hometown. During this era, nonetheless, Sivan found ways to make wherever he was staying – be it a hotel room, trailer or tour bus – feel more familiar. That is something he has channelled into his latest homeware and fragrance brand, Tsu Lange Yor.

For those who need any further proof that home is significant to Sivan, then just watch Architectural Digest’s tour of his house in Melbourne, which you’ve likely already seen. Stuffed with design classics – Isamu Noguchi lamps, and pieces by Percival Lafer, Ettore Sottsass, Tobia Scarpa, amongst others – and works by artists local to Australia, his cosy, mid-century oasis was an online sensation (it’s now one among the primary search terms that come up if you type ‘Troye Sivan’ into Google.) So this move into homeware and fragrance appears like a natural progression within the musician’s profession.

The name Tsu Lange Yor – pronounced tsoo-lang-yor – is a Yiddish saying which suggests “to long years”, and a nod to Sivan’s Jewish heritage. For the brand’s first collection, Sivan has created an expensive series of fragrances and objects designed to raise two of life’s most essential components: self and sanctuary.

This debut collection encompasses three highly personal scents, each unisex and starting from the summery carefree notes of ‘Pool’ (which carries hints of suncream and raspberries) to the seductive scent of ‘Luca’, with comforting notes of bergamot and cedarwood. For the house, three fragrances pair with hand-cast oil burners, designed and created in collaboration with artist and industrial designer, Joel Adler – who rendered the design in VR and created a 3D-printed mould, before they were individually hand-cast in aluminium or bronze alloy to take their final tooth-shaped form. Rounding out the gathering is an aluminium dreidel, a limited-edition art piece, also by Adler, which is one other nod to Sivan’s Jewish heritage and is designed to aid you unwind. 

After all, celebrity brands are nothing latest – it seems everyone Hollywood-adjacent now has a way of life or beauty brand – but for Sivan, it was imperative that Tsu Lange Yor not be just one other soulless range of products that he slapped his name to. That was very much an avenue that was open to him, but he waited it out and sought the best collaborators to make sure he built a brand with integrity.

To have a good time the launch, Tsu Lange Yor collaborated with lots of the same friends and vendors that brought Troye’s Carlton home to life to create a similarly inviting pop-up sanctuary on the Melbourne gallery space, On the above. Prior to opening, we caught up with Troye to speak all things Tsu Lange Yor.

Congratulations on the launch. In comparison with other celebrity brands, Tsu Lange Yor feels quite intimate, and real to you. Are you able to share what inspired you to create it?

Troye Sivan: Well, at first, I feel I could be doing this, no matter any of my work within the entertainment industry. That is at all times something that has been a fantasy of mine since I used to be a child, really, alongside the music and all the things else. So the goal was to not depend on any of that side of it. Obviously, it’s nice to have an audience that’s able to hear about this thing that I’m so enthusiastic about. But ultimately, Tsu Lange Yor comes from my passion for home, interiors and delightful things. That was the place to begin of all of it.

How did the creative process for this differ from music or acting?

Troye Sivan: That’s something that I’m so enthusiastic about, with working on this. I realised that the creative process is the thing that I’m hooked on. It’s collaboration really, it’s not that different. It feels similar to making an album or filming a TV show. It’s finding people who find themselves more talented than I’m and dealing with them and learning from them. Throughout any of my creative pursuits, the moment I get excited is once I feel surprised. Because I do know all of my instincts. So through collaboration, you’re capable of give you something that you just didn’t know you were able to. That’s a very addictive feeling.

In constructing Tsu Lange Yor, what was essentially the most interesting thing you learned throughout the process?

Troye Sivan: I feel this has been the steepest learning curve of my life. Each time you go right into a latest medium, you’ve to learn a latest language to give you the chance to speak along with your collaborators. Scent is something that I feel people innately understand – not everybody necessarily knows why they like something or not. And so for me having to learn why I like things or how you can create something that I like, that was probably the largest learning.

I like that you just geek out over interiors and design. It’s really clear that this brand may be very natural for you. Why did you enlist Joel as a collaborator?

Troye Sivan: I’ve actually known Joel for a very very long time. I’ve at all times been an enormous fan. I saw one among his works in Perth a few years ago and at all times remembered it, so when it got here time to begin designing the objects side of the business he was the primary individual that got here to mind.

We’re in your first Tsu Lange Yor pop-up immediately. What was the story that you just desired to tell on this space?

Troye Sivan: Obviously, I wanted it to be beautiful. I wanted it to feel comfortable and never pretentious in any respect. I desired to display our products in a very clean way where you may engage with them in a very intimate, personal way. And in addition to display them in the best way that I do at home. So we’ve essentially built a lounge space. I feel very lucky that I’ve lived with these products for the past 12 months or so and truthfully, and I’m excited to form of show people how I’ve been using them.

I walked out of the pop-up, spritzed in TSY 5755 – the brand’s signature scent which boasts notes of Tasmanian Mountain Pepper, Sandalwood and Vetiver. As instructed, I re-examine my pulse points at two, 20 and 45 minutes post application, observing the olfactory notes as they alter on my skin over time. At first, the scent jogs my memory of vintage timber after which because the day goes on it melds right into a wealthy velvety scent. I’m hooked.

Tsu Lange Yor is on the market online from Wednesday, twenty third August.