Our Story

From Damascus and Ethiopia to Texas

Two memories became one house of fragrance.

Tekle Parfums began in Texas with two friends, Mohammed Alqtaish and Reyan Tekle. They came from different cultures, but both understood that scent can hold a place, a person and a moment long after everything else has changed.

The Jasmine of Damascus

In Damascus, jasmine is more than a flower. It is the scent by which the city remembers itself. White blossoms climb courtyard walls, gather beside old stone and lean toward open windows. By evening, their fragrance moves through homes and narrow streets until it feels as though the whole city has been wrapped in jasmine.

For Syrians far from home, that scent can bring back an entire world in a single breath. A family courtyard. A summer night. A familiar street. A place that distance could never erase.

A Welcome from Ethiopia

From Ethiopia came another fragrant memory: coffee roasting beside incense, filling the room before the first cup is poured. It is a tradition of warmth, patience and hospitality, where scent becomes part of the welcome.

Created in Texas

Mohammed and Reyan brought those memories together in Texas and began building Tekle Parfums bottle by bottle. What started as a shared love of fragrance became a house shaped by friendship, heritage and the belief that luxury should still feel personal.

They did not want to create fragrances that simply smelled beautiful. They wanted to create scents that people could recognize as part of their own lives. A fragrance for the first meeting, the long drive home, the celebration, the quiet evening and the memory that returns without warning.

Every Tekle fragrance is created to travel with you and, with time, become inseparable from your story.

Where memory travels in fragrance.