Water, made weightless.
Monarch is a handheld, cordless cold-mist atomizer for skin and hair. Nothing boils and nothing is heated — vibration alone breaks distilled water, hydrosols, or your own blend of essential oils into a mist fine enough to settle rather than soak.
Handheld
Cordless, goes where you go
USB-C
Recharges from any cable
4+ hrs
Runtime per charge
No heat
Vibration, never boiling
Refillable
Vials, not cartridges
Two modes
Atomizer and humidifier
Cold mist, made by vibration
A steam humidifier boils water. Monarch does not. There is no heating element anywhere in the device — the liquid is shaken apart into droplets and leaves the nozzle at room temperature.
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Fill the vial
Vials are refillable and swap in by hand. Distilled water is the baseline; add a hydrosol or a few drops of essential oil when you want the mist to carry something.
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Vibration does the work
The element vibrates fast enough to shear the liquid into droplets too small to see individually. There is no heating element, no steam and no boiling — the mist leaves cool.
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It settles, it does not soak
Because the droplets are so small they hang in the air and land evenly. Point it at skin and hair, hold it up to humidify a room, or sweep it across linens and leaves.
Not another thing that lives on a table.
Almost every atomizer and diffuser you can buy today is an appliance. It sits on a shelf, stays plugged into a wall, and mists the room it happens to be standing in. Monarch is the other way round: it is small enough to hold, it runs off its own battery, and it charges over USB-C from the same cable as everything else you own.
It comes to the dryness
You bring it to your face, to the ends of your hair, to the plant on the far windowsill. A tabletop unit can only mist whatever is standing next to it.
Nothing to plug in
Over four hours of runtime on a charge, and a USB-C port when it needs one. No outlet to find, no cord to route, no fixed spot on the counter.
It still sets down
The shell rests flat on its own. Put it on a nightstand or a desk and it becomes a cold humidifier for the room — so it does the tabletop job too, and then leaves with you.
Small enough to hold, steady enough to set down.
The shell is a soft, four-point form that sits in a palm without needing a grip, and rests flat on a surface without a stand. The vial slots into the back and refills by hand — there is nothing proprietary to buy and nothing sealed to throw away.
Refill it from a jug of distilled water, not a subscription.
Refillable vials swap by hand — no pods and no cartridges.
USB-C on the body, charged from a cable you already own.
Water, and what you choose to carry in it
Monarch was designed around three fills. Each one atomizes the same way, and each one reaches you exactly as it went into the vial.
Distilled water
The everyday fill. Distilled keeps mineral scale off the element and mineral residue off your skin, which is why we recommend it over tap.
Hydrosols
Rose, chamomile, lavender, witch hazel — floral and botanical waters atomize as readily as plain water and carry their scent into the mist.
Essential oils in water
A few drops in a vial of water is enough. The mist carries whatever is in the vial, so start with less than you think you need.
Monarch atomizes what you put into it — nothing more, nothing less. There is no heat and no filtration, so the mist carries whatever the vial holds. Know how your skin, hair and lungs respond to a hydrosol or an oil before you atomize it.
One device, pointed at whatever is dry.
Monarch is not a face-only gadget. It is a fine-particle mister, and a fine-particle mister is useful in more places than a spray bottle is.
A cool, even veil over the face and body. No propellant, no spray-bottle droplets running down your cheek.
Damps curls and coils without flattening them, and revives a style without soaking it through.
Set it down and it works as a cold humidifier — useful in dry heat, on a nightstand, or beside a desk.
Linens, plants, a pillow before bed. Anything you would reach for a spray bottle to do, at a much finer particle size.
Cordless and palm-sized, so it travels in a bag and works on a plane, in a hotel room, at a desk or in the car.
Salon chairs, treatment rooms and studios — it moves from station to station instead of tying up an outlet at one of them.
Where it stands today
Handheld and cordless — no base, no wall cord
Rechargeable battery, charged over USB-C
Over 4 hours on a single charge
Refillable vials
Cold — produced by vibration, not by boiling
Distilled water, hydrosols, essential oil drops in water
Handheld atomizer or set down as a cold humidifier
Textured soft-touch finish, four colourways in hand
By invitation, in small batches
Four shells, in hand today
Every shell carries the same textured, soft-touch surface. These are the colours we are building with right now; invited orders are filled from what is on the bench.
Before you ask for one
No. Monarch is a cold atomizer. The mist is created by vibration rather than by boiling, so nothing in the vial is heated on its way out.
No, and this is the important difference between a cold atomizer and a steam humidifier. Boiling leaves most dissolved and suspended matter behind; vibration does not. Whatever is in the vial ends up in the air, which is why we recommend distilled water and why you should know an ingredient before you atomize it.
Distilled water, hydrosols, and essential oil drops in water are what we designed around and what we recommend. What you actually choose to atomize is your decision and your responsibility — see the terms and liability waiver.
A tabletop diffuser is an appliance: it stays plugged into a wall and mists whatever room it stands in. Monarch is handheld and cordless, so you take it to what needs misting — your face, the ends of your hair, a plant across the room, a bag you are travelling with. Set it down and it still works as a cold humidifier, so it does the tabletop job as well, and then leaves with you.
It charges over USB-C, from the same cable as your phone or laptop, and runs for over four hours on a single charge.
Yes. Vials refill and swap by hand — there are no sealed pods or proprietary cartridges to buy.
Yes. Held, it is an atomizer for skin, hair and surfaces. Set down and left running, it is a cold humidifier for the space around it.
Send a message through this site. Monarch is currently offered on an invite basis, and we reply to the requests we can fill.
Monarch is offered by invitation.
We are building in small batches, so units are released to a list rather than a storefront. Send a note about how you would use one and we will come back to you.
Monarch atomizes whatever you put in the vial, without heat and without filtration. Please read the terms of use and liability waiver before requesting a unit.