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NAUKA2025, product design

Nauka is a spice company with one mission: Re-establishing the nuance and cultural significance of commonplace spices through the five senses.

Once known as “black gold,” black pepper was among the most valuable commodities in the world, shaping trade routes, empires, and global exchange from antiquity through the colonial era.

Over time, its cultural and economic significance faded, transforming it into an unremarkable everyday seasoning.

By tracing its journey from luxury good to commonplace condiment, Nauka uses sustainable and recyclable materials to walk through the history of black pepper. Each bottle contains a different pepper with a different flavour profile, a booklet detailing black pepper’s prolific history, and a lavendar-pepper scented candle.

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Blunt Palate: Experimental spice serum that burns the taste buds off bigots. Best used in the guise of night.

To continue cultivating interest in the product and culture of spice as a whole, a pop-up exhibition documentating the spice from will be open for all to visit.

The entrance, with a floor plan designed to mimic the spice trade rote, contains spices from all over, allowing visitors a sensory journey of spice from East to West.

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