Perfume house · 
Netherlands · Since 2015
Baruti
Netherlands
Small-batch Dutch niche perfumes by a scientist-perfumer who rebuilds everyday smells, best known for the hot-iron laundry scent Hot Cotton.
Spyros Drosopoulos, a Dutch-born, Greek-raised sleep scientist, took a perfume workshop in 2009 and left academia for perfumery. He founded Baruti, Greek for 'gunpowder', and still writes all of its formulas, blended by hand in its own Dutch lab.
Owned by
Baruti, a sole proprietorship in the Netherlands owned by its founder and perfumer, Spyros Drosopoulos; independent. Checked October 2026.
Where this comes from
The sentence · barutiperfumes.com · ministryofscent.comThe story · barutiperfumes.com · ministryofscent.comOwned by · barutiperfumes.comThe perfumes that made it · barutiperfumes.com
3 of the 14 perfumes its own site lists are here.
In many of its perfumes
All 3 here
3 perfumes · A to Z
ChaiExtrait de Parfum · UnisexCinnamon, clove, ginger and cardamom over black tea and steamed milk, drying to cocoa, rose, vanilla and leather.
Hot CottonEau de Parfum · Unisex · Luxury $$$$A warm, clean hot-iron-on-laundry smell over soft musks and a dry, ambery wood.
PerversoExtrait de Parfum · Unisex · Luxury $$$$Rum and roasted hazelnut with cocoa and caramel fudge, then fig and tobacco leaf over styrax, musk and ambergris.Its perfumers here: Spyros Drosopoulos (3).