A Lebanese soap-making business and a century-old Kuwaiti perfume house have brought their products together in a pecan-scented collection, presented at 360 Mall in October.
One makes soap and body scrubs. The other has been making perfume for more than a century. This October, House of Soap and Kuwait’s Atyab Al Marshoud put both businesses into the same box.
Their Pecan Set pairs a body sugar scrub with an all-over spray, bringing together two companies that arrived at fragrance through different routes. House of Soap traces its beginnings to family soap-making traditions in southern Lebanon. Atyab Al Marshoud dates its establishment in Kuwait to 1925.
The collaboration was presented at 360 Mall from 15 to 17 October, according to Atyab Al Marshoud’s announcement. For shoppers familiar with either business, it offered a new combination: a body-care product and a fragrance carrying both names, built around the same scent.
A shared scent, two different products
The set contains a 500g Pecan Body Scrub and a 125ml All Over Spray. Atyab Al Marshoud’s official listing prices the box at KD33 and describes a fragrance combining bergamot, peony, vanilla and pecan.
The name suggests something sweet, but the listed notes also include citrus and flowers. Pecan gives the collection its identity, while the two formats put that fragrance to different uses: one in a wash-off body product, the other in a spray.
The packaging makes the partnership explicit. Both companies’ names appear on the box and on the products themselves, in a matching white-and-bronze design. Customers encounter the two businesses together, rather than buying an existing product from each and assembling their own gift.
That is the practical difference between a shared collection and a routine retail bundle. Here, the same name, fragrance concept and presentation run across the products. The collaboration is visible before either container is opened.
The public descriptions establish what the companies made together. They do not explain how the scent was selected or how development responsibilities were divided, leaving the making of the collection as a further part of the story for the teams behind it to tell.
The Lebanese business behind the scrub
House of Soap’s own history begins with a household craft. Founder Awsaf Hankeer’s grandmother made soap using olive oil from locally grown olives in southern Lebanon, according to the company’s account.
The business, founded in 2008, presents those family recipes and techniques as the foundation of its products. Its name will also be familiar to customers who first encountered it as Bayt Al Saboun Al Loubnani.
The company’s published brand history and FAQs place the change to House of Soap – Lebanon at the beginning of 2024. It says the new name retained the recipes and traditions associated with the original business.
Its current range extends well beyond bars of soap. Body scrubs, lotions, shower products and fragrance sit alongside the olive-oil and laurel soaps that connect most directly with its founding story.
The Pecan collaboration belongs to that broader range. It gives the company’s body-care work a direct connection to an established Kuwaiti fragrance name, while keeping a scrub at the centre of its contribution.
For customers who remember the older Arabic name, the partnership also offers a concrete way to see what the business now makes. The family soap-making history remains part of its identity, but the collection itself is a contemporary body-care collaboration.
A Kuwaiti perfume house enters the same box
Atyab Al Marshoud brings a different family history to the partnership. The company identifies Sulaiman Al Marshoud as its founder and 1925 as the year the business began.
That puts more than a century between its establishment and the Pecan collection. Its current products also show how far a perfume house’s range can extend: alongside perfumes, the company sells hair mists, home fragrances and all-over sprays.
The Pecan spray therefore sits within an existing product format for the Kuwaiti business. What changes is the collaboration around it, with a Lebanese body-care company sharing the scent and presentation.
The two businesses meet at a point where their ranges already overlap. Scent is part of a scrub or shower product as well as a perfume, even though the products are used differently. A shared collection makes that connection more deliberate.
Presenting it at 360 Mall gave the collaboration a physical setting in Kuwait. The announcement places the launch in a familiar retail environment, where the products could be presented together rather than introduced only through separate online listings.
Why body care and fragrance are meeting
The partnership comes as both categories attract increased spending in major international beauty markets.
Research firm Circana reported that US prestige body-care sales grew 16% in the first half of 2026, supported by cleansers, lotions and deodorants. Mass-market fragrance sales increased 15%, with unit sales rising 7%.
Those figures describe the United States, not Kuwait, and do not measure demand for this collection. They provide context for why body care and fragrance increasingly appear in the same commercial conversation.
The House of Soap partnership puts that connection into a straightforward form. A customer buys two products with different functions, linked by one scent and the names of two regional businesses.
For now, the clearest result is the collection itself: a Lebanese body scrub and a Kuwaiti fragrance brought together under a shared name. Behind it are two family-business histories, meeting in a product that neither company is presenting alone.
