Product Archive
Aomori hiba room scent
This room fragrance will lift and lighten your home over winter with the crisp, woody scent of hiba essential oils. As well as being a highly valued ornamental wood, the hiba aroma has natural antibacterial and insect-repellent properties, leaving your house feeling refreshed and clean.
Yoshino Hinoki Diffuser
This flameless diffuser is made from hinoki wood by Japanese aromatherapy specialist @Aroma. Each diffuser is accompanied by a bottle of bespoke essential oil developed exclusively for Monocle. The scent is built from fresh, deep and spicy notes of cedar wood, sandalwood and cardamom. The oil soaks into the small platform of the diffuser, letting the aromatic nature of the wood disperse the fragrance throughout your living space or office.
Fascinated by the ‘architecture' of the olfactory, @Aroma is a Tokyo-based scent specialist.
About @Aroma
By using naturally sourced essential oils, @Aroma's room fragrances enhance your surroundings – every scent evokes memories and sensations. That's certainly the case with the Hinoki diffuser – a collaboration between Monocle and @Aroma – which has been created to bring a comforting woodland scent to your home.
Cotton twill cap
Top off your look with this colourful and versatile hat. Made in California from 100 per cent twill, this signature Monocle cap has been launched in two new colourways: yellow and light blue. Featuring embroidered Monocle branding on the front and a tonal logo on the rear, it’s the perfect companion for everything from walking through cities to playing a round of golf.
December/January 2025/2026 – Issue 189
Monocle’s December/January issue is out now. With handy insights from the past year and a view of what’s to come in 2026, our bumper winter edition is packed with reports, ideas and long reads to savour. We head to Beirut to hear about how the city is bouncing back, step behind the curtains at the Royal Danish Ballet, pick up presents in our festive gift guides and sit down for culinary treats at a few of Paris’s best bistros. Plus: dip into our Japan survey, which has plenty of lessons in mobility and retail for the year ahead.
Please note: With two limited-edition covers, experience the luck of the draw when you order.
Medium takeaway cup
Choose this 250ml takeaway cup by Berlin-based Kaffeeform, complete with Monocle branding. Made from coffee grounds sourced from Berlin cafés and roasteries, this cup is shatterproof, light and free of petroleum-based plastics, BPA and melamine. Comes with two lids: one for on-the-go drinking and another fully sealable option.
Berlin-based design studio Kaffeeform’s mission is in its name: turning coffee grounds into takeaway cups. Sourcing coffee waste from cafés and roasteries around the city, Kaffeeform’s products are long-lasting, pleasingly light and even carry a scent of roasted coffee.
Genroku incense
Shoyeido produces the highest-quality natural incense and is the preferred choice for most temples in Japan. Our favourite scent, Genroku (Returning Spirit), features aged woods and fine herbs and creates a relaxed atmosphere in the office or at home. The refill contains 20 incense sticks, each of which burns for about 20 minutes.
Excludes the brass incense holder.
Nanshu incense
Established in 1705, Shoyeido produces the highest-quality natural incense and is the preferred choice for most temples in Japan. Their newest scent, Nanshu, emits a deep and warm fragrance that features notes of sacred tree, sandalwood and chai spice. The refill contains 20 incense sticks, each of which burns for about 20 minutes.
Excludes the brass incense holder.
T-shirt “Read”
Deck yourself out in some Monocle-approved merch. Made in Portugal with 100 per cent cotton, this olive-coloured jersey has a thicker, more durable feel to it. Printed on the front is the simple message: “Read”. While the back features Monocle branding. The combo is sure to chime with our dedicated readers.
Welsh Lavender foot cream
Formulated to revitalise tired feet, this foot cream is made with lavender oil, rosemary oil and peppermint oil distilled in the hills of mid-Wales. The tea tree and calendula flower extract also provide refreshing yet healing benefit to the tired feet. Journalist turned farmer and entrepreneur Nancy Durham collaborated with Monocle editor in chief Tyler Brûlé to design the packaging and branding.
The Monocle Guide to Building Better Cities
How do we make better cities places that work for people of all ages and backgrounds? How do we make cities that provide the obvious essentials great transport, good places to work as well as the softer elements that truly deliver quality of life, from urban swimming pools to rooftop clubs? In this joyful new book the magazine's editors unpack what makes a great city, whether you're looking for a new place to call home or need help fixing your own. Discover how you too can have a High Line, create the most covetable housing or turn a dirty river into a summer asset. Packed with great images and intriguing reports, this is a book that takes the urbanism debate away from city hall and explains what's needed in ways that will inspire us all.
