Karmakamet
Essential Oil — Dawn
Grapefruit and petitgrain. The one to run before eight in the morning.
฿550
The collection
Things worth carrying out of Thailand.
Objects ship from Bangkok. Experiences are reserved here and settled with the venue when you arrive.
61 items · objects and appointments
Karmakamet
Essential Oil — Indochine
Lemongrass and mandarin. A market street before the heat arrives.
฿550
Karmakamet
Essential Oil — The Midnight
Vetiver and smoke. For the end of the evening, not the start.
฿550
Karmakamet
Essential Oil — Rain Forest
Wet leaves and green wood. Closest thing to the north in a bottle.
฿550
Karmakamet
Essential Oil — Joy
Sweet orange and clove. Reads as Christmas to anyone from a cold country.
฿550
PAÑPURI
Ambience Candle — Siamese Water
Jasmine picked at dawn in the Tak mountains, cut with mint.
฿1,980
PAÑPURI
Ambience Candle — One Night in Bangkok
Night-blooming flowers and warm asphalt. Their most divisive scent.
฿1,980
PAÑPURI
Ambience Candle — Indochine
Thai lemongrass and mandarin. The safest gift in the collection.
฿1,980
PAÑPURI
Ambience Diffuser — Indochine
Ten weeks of citrus, unattended. The workhorse of the range.
฿2,690
PAÑPURI
Ambience Diffuser Refill
450 ml. Cheaper per week than replacing the bottle, and the reason people come back.
฿3,690
PAÑPURI
Ambience Sachet
For a drawer, a suitcase, or the inside of a wardrobe door.
฿790
PAÑPURI
Candle Lantern Set
Candle and perforated brass lantern. The best-looking thing we sell as a gift.
฿4,950
PAÑPURI
Electric Diffuser
Waterless, cold-air. For people who will not leave a candle burning.
฿4,950
PAÑPURI
Antioxidant Milk Bath & Body Oil
Turns milky in water. The single best thing in the bath range.
฿1,650
PAÑPURI
Aromatic Body & Hand Cleanser
Sits by a basin without embarrassing the bathroom.
฿1,250
PAÑPURI
Nurturing Body & Hand Lotion
Absorbs fast enough to dress immediately afterwards.
฿1,490
PAÑPURI
Hand Concentrated Cream
Handbag size. Ends up in more bags than it was bought for.
฿950
PAÑPURI
Probiotic Herbal Deodorant
Aluminium-free and it actually works in this climate.
฿590
PAÑPURI
Ocelli Solid Perfume Balm
Solid perfume in a brass compact. No liquid to declare.
฿1,290
THANN
Aromatic Wood Body Wash
Cedarwood and orange. The most-copied Thai spa smell there is.
฿1,090
THANN
Rice Bran Body Oil
Thai rice bran, cold-pressed. Cheaper than argan and better suited to heat.
฿1,350
Karmakamet
Traditional Herbal Soap
Cold-process, cut from a slab, wrapped in paper.
฿290
Karmakamet
Herbal Compress Ball
Steam it, then press it into a shoulder. Two hundred years of Thai practice in a cotton bundle.
฿450
Jim Thompson
Plain Silk Cushion Cover
One colour, no pattern. Lets the silk do the work.
฿1,800
Jim Thompson
Signature Silk Cushion Cover
The house weave. Two tones in warp and weft, so the colour moves.
฿1,800
Jim Thompson
Antique Tiger Silk Cushion Cover
An archive tiger print. The one piece here that is a decision, not a default.
฿5,000
Jim Thompson
Handwoven Silk Scarf
Hand-loomed. Weighs almost nothing and creases out overnight.
฿3,900
Jim Thompson
Silk Table Runner
Two metres of silk down a dining table. Unreasonable and correct.
฿4,200
Baan Krua
Mudmee Ikat Throw
Tie-dyed before weaving, so the pattern blurs at the edges. That is the point.
฿6,800
Siam Celadon
Celadon Tea Set
Crackle-glazed green. Fired in Chiang Mai the way it has been since Sukhothai.
฿3,400
Benjarong
Benjarong Small Bowl
Five-colour enamel over porcelain, painted by hand. A day's work in one bowl.
฿5,600
Chiang Mai Brass
Hammered Brass Tray
Raised by hand. Will go dark, and should.
฿2,900
Reclaimed Teak
Reclaimed Teak Serving Board
Cut from old house timber. Nail holes left in.
฿2,200
Monsoon Tea
Forest-Grown Assam, Chiang Mai
Tea grown under forest canopy instead of clearing it.
฿680
Doi Chaang
Doi Chaang Peaberry
Grown at 1,200 m by Akha farmers who own the company.
฿750
Chanthaburi
Fresh Green Peppercorns in Brine
The ingredient you cannot buy properly outside Thailand.
฿320
Megachef
First-Press Fish Sauce
Anchovy and salt, eighteen months, nothing else.
฿280
Nittaya
Nittaya Curry Paste Trio
Red, green and khao soi from the Chiang Mai market stall everyone buys from.
฿590
Yan Lipao
Yan Lipao Woven Basket
Fern vine, split to a millimetre and woven wet. A royal craft.
฿8,900
Chiang Mai Lacquer
Black Lacquer Box
Twelve coats of resin over bamboo, polished between each one.
฿3,200
Karmakamet
Brass Incense Holder
Weighted brass, one hole. Does the job and nothing else.
฿1,450
Karmakamet
Traditional Asian Incense Sticks
Hand-rolled. Forty sticks, about forty-five minutes each.
฿390
Sop Moei Arts
Karen Hilltribe Cotton Cushion
Backstrap-loomed by Karen weavers in Mae Hong Son.
฿2,600
Mediwelle
IV Therapy Session
Integrative Wellness & Aesthetics, 10th floor, Gaysorn Tower.
฿4,500
Mediwelle
Face IV Treatment
Micro-infusion facial. Book it for the day before you fly, not the day after.
฿5,800
Mediwelle
Traditional Chinese Medicine Consultation
Pulse diagnosis and acupuncture, in a tower on Ratchadamri.
฿3,200
Bangkok Hospital
Executive Health Screening
The reason a lot of people fly here. Bloods, imaging, and a doctor who has time.
฿28,000
PAÑPURI WELLNESS
Onsen & Bathhouse Day Pass
A Japanese bathhouse on the twelfth floor of a Bangkok mall. It should not work.
฿1,800
PAÑPURI WELLNESS
Signature Oil Massage, 90 min
Ninety minutes, their own oils, and a therapist who asks about pressure and means it.
฿4,200
Divana
Divana Signature Ritual
Two and a half hours in a converted house off Sukhumvit.
฿5,500
Wat Pho
Traditional Thai Massage at Wat Pho
The school that teaches everyone else. Not relaxing, and not meant to be.
฿900
RAKxa
RAKxa Three-Night Programme
Bangkok’s green lung. A medical-wellness retreat on Bang Krachao, not a hotel with a spa attached.
฿175,000
Kamalaya
Kamalaya Wellness Programme
Built around a cave where monks meditated. Steep, green, and quiet.
฿76,000
Mae Rim
Silent Meditation Weekend
Two nights, no talking, no phone. The cheapest hard thing here.
฿12,000
Jim Thompson Farm
Silk Weaving Workshop
From cocoon to loom in one morning, at the farm that supplies the house.
฿2,800
Bangkok
Market & Cooking Class
Wet market first, kitchen second. The market is the better half.
฿3,200
Samut Sakhon
Benjarong Painting Session
Paint one small piece. Understand immediately why they cost what they cost.
฿2,400
Rattanakosin
Old Bangkok Walking Morning
Six-thirty start, before the heat and the coaches.
฿2,200
Crystal Sports
Indoor Court Hour — Crystal Sports G
Nine ITF indoor courts on Pradit Manutham, US Open surface. The first centre in Thailand the federation recognised.
฿1,200
Crystal Sports
Private Tennis Session
One court, one coach, no group. National-level instructors, from a first lesson to match work.
฿3,500
Pilalab
1:1 Reformer Session
Cadillac, reformer, barrel and chair. A boutique studio on Soi Ton Son, not a room of twenty mats.
฿3,500
