FIG MILK is our most intimate oil — soft, steady, inspired by Cleopatra’s handmaidens, the quiet witnesses to private ritual and power. When I designed its packaging, I wanted it to feel devotional.

Rather than lifting from the museum archive, I created a new emblem: a fusion of two ancient symbols — the Ankh and the Djed pillar.

The Ankh, the key of life, carries breath, sensuality, the pulse of living skin. The Djed, Osiris’s backbone, is endurance itself: the spine raised after dismemberment, the pillar that held the cosmos upright. In ritual, Isis lifted the Djed to restore balance — earth renewed, Nile returned, life made whole again. Together, Ankh and Djed form a single mark: tenderness held by strength, devotion made visible.

It felt right for FIG MILK. A scent of fig, coconut, and green violet leaf — clinging like sun-warmed linen. On skin, oil becomes milk, and the sensation is steadying, private, like being held.

Placing this emblem on the box was a way of honouring those who serve in shadows — the handmaidens, the attendants, the loyal witnesses who carried memory and desire without stepping into light. FIG MILK is for the quiet figures who preserve ceremony — the ones who embody resilience as much as softness.

Every 39BC box is a fragment of history you can hold. With FIG MILK, the symbol is both artefact and offering: life entwined with endurance, devotion that lingers like scent on skin.