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TROYE SIVAN'S FRAGRANCE BRAND IS BACK WITH ITS FIRST 2026 RELEASE

Volume 1 follows the sell-out success of last year's Sage's Rose.

By Jing Yi Tan01 february 20263 min read
TROYE SIVAN'S FRAGRANCE BRAND IS BACK WITH ITS FIRST 2026 RELEASE

Troye Sivan's fragrance and homewares brand released its first new scent of the year this past February with Volume 1, the follow-up to last August's Sage's Rose, which reportedly sold out following its debut.

The relatively spare, numbered naming convention Volume 1 rather than a more evocative, story driven fragrance name suggests the brand is positioning its releases as an ongoing, cumulative body of work rather than a series of standalone, individually themed launches.

Celebrity fragrance lines have historically split fairly cleanly into two categories: mass-market scents developed primarily to capitalise quickly on a star's existing fame, and a smaller number of more considered projects where the celebrity takes a genuinely active creative role in the fragrance's development and positioning. Sivan's brand, which pairs fragrance with homewares rather than positioning fragrance as a standalone beauty product line, reads closer to the latter category - built around a broader aesthetic and lifestyle sensibility rather than fragrance alone.

The sell-out success of Sage's Rose ahead of this year's Volume 1 launch suggests the brand has built genuine organic demand beyond Sivan's existing music fanbase alone, a meaningful distinction for a celebrity fragrance venture given how many such projects struggle to sustain interest much beyond an initial launch news cycle built primarily around the celebrity's name recognition.

For a category increasingly crowded with quickly-produced celebrity fragrance licensing deals, a slower-building, cumulatively-numbered release strategy suggests Sivan's team is deliberately positioning the brand for longevity rather than a single splashy launch moment.

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Jing Yi Tan

Fashion editor and writer covering design, image-making and the creative networks connecting Southeast Asia.

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