Troye Sivan.Photo:Joe Brennan
Joe Brennan
Troye Sivan has always been a homebody.
Casual listeners could be excused for thinking otherwise based onhis thumping, party anthem “Rush,“the first single off his forthcoming albumSomething to Give Each Other(out Oct. 13). But, the Australian singer tells PEOPLE, he’s had a lifelong passion for all things home, so much so that he initially had a hard time leaving his.
“I think I had my first sleepover when I was maybe 16 or something. Anytime I tried, I would always get my mom to come pick me up in the middle of the night,” he admits. “I was so unbelievably homesick.”
When he moved to the U.S. to pursue his music career a few years later, that feeling of longing evolved. “It started this push and pull in me between wanting to go and explore and work and travel, and also wanting to be home,” he explains, appropriately, from his bedroom in Melbourne.
On the road, theThe Idolactor, 28, would carry a scarf to drape over his bedside lamp to recreate the feeling of his childhood room, burn favorite candles and even travel with a color-changing smart bulb to “swap out the light in the hotel if I could,” he recalls. Anything to create a sense of familiarity for all his senses.
Troye Sivan.Joe Brennan
“I think I’ve always been obsessed with [home],” Sivan says. His first album,Blue Neighborhood,is an homage to his hometown of Perth. And his current house, an impeccably decorated former factory in Melbourne, has a fan base of its own (plus, several hundred thousand views on anArchitectural Digesthome tour).
He joked in a recent TikTok that fans stop him on the street not to praise his music, but to tell him how much they love his house.
“[Home] has just been kind of a theme in my life that I’ve always loved exploring in everything that I make, and it’s been really important to me,” he says.
The latest incarnation of that exploration comes in the form of a collection of candles, fragrances (both personal and for the home) and practical sculptures calledTsu Lange Yor.
Tsu Lange Yor.Photographer: Lauren BamfordStyling: Sarah Pritchard
Photographer: Lauren BamfordStyling: Sarah Pritchard
The collection, which was a collaboration with his brother, Steele Mellet, includes three eau de parfum — Tsu Lange Yor, Pool and Luca — as well as candles and scented oils. The fragrances were created with Sydney-based perfumery expert Craig Andrade.
Together the pieces evoke various facets of the artist’s life and represent his homeland. Every element, from his collaborators to their designs and even some of the ingredients (including the world-first use of Tasmanian Mountain Pepper in a fine fragrance) have ties to Australia.
Tsu Lange Yoris available now.
source: people.com
