Eak Chieochalakom

About Eak Chieochalakom

Eak Chieochalakom, known in Thai as เอกชัย เชี่ยวชลาคม or simply Eak, is a Thai perfumer and co-founder of the independent niche house Perfumers' Journey. His work turns journeys, family memories and the people close to him into scents that feel vivid and easy to recognize.

Career

Eak began his career in travel and aviation, until the COVID-19 pandemic brought that business to a halt and led him to a perfume-making course. In that class he met his future partner Sakul, known as Tee, and helped turn the Thai name of her fragrance page into English. That name became Perfumers' Journey, and in 2024 Thai Perfumers introduced him as the creator of Tea Industry in a talk held during its awards event.

Creative Style & Philosophy

For Eak, perfume is an art form: aroma materials work like colors, combined into tones across the fragrance wheel. Yet a beautiful concept is only the start, he says, because the harder challenge is chemistry: how materials evaporate and react, and how to get the diffusion and longevity he wants. He starts from a memory, renders it through realistic notes, and refuses to reshape the original idea just to please the market.

Signature Works

• *Cape Andaman* — Inspired by his father's cologne and by family road trips along the Andaman coast to Phuket.
• *Her Skin* — Drawn from his mischievous yet lovable niece, it sets clean tones sharply against earthy, "dirty" ones. He worried it might be too hard to wear, but after launch it found people who truly embraced it.