Notes: Lychee fruit, milk, vanilla, jasmine grandiflorum, salt

This is, in my opinion the most classically feminine scent that I have released to date. It is a delicious , bright and creamy fruity-floral with a strong lactonic undercurrent. For me it is the scent of withdrawal, healing, and finding yourself at the bottom of a lychee martini.

My experiment to make a modern fleurmande chypre. This feels quite feminine to me and has opposing elements of brightness and grounded sweets.

Notes: tonka bean, lilac, vanilla absolute, green cardamom, cashmere cardigans, white chocolate, and plumeria over a modernized chypre base.

Streaks of light piercing through the curtains on a quiet Saturday morning. You know that when you get out of bed the house will be just a bit too cold. You haven’t turned the heat on yet this season. You bide your time. Hit the snooze button, and wait for the sun’s warmth to do it’s work.

The vibe is a twilight stroll through a garden, thick with sprawling green fig trees and lilac. There are ancient-looking marble busts and statues dotting the property in various levels of decay. The air is thick, sweet, and somewhat humid. You come to a life-sized classical nude, posed pouring water from a vase in to the earth below. Covering their nakedness, someone before you has stuck a fig leaf to their pelvis with a bit of the plant's natural latex.

Notes: Fig leaf, ripening fig, marble, laurel wreaths, purple lilac, ivy, green mandarin, and creeping thyme

This fragrance was inspired by the fig leaf campaign of Pope Paul IV in which it was decided that nudity in art was not morally acceptable. Famously this resulted in many statues, particularly male nudes having their genitals covered with plaster fig leaves and/or being chiseled off entirely. 

In an interesting twist, the Vatican kept most of the removed phalluses and there is now a team of scholars in Italy that are working to match the stray wieners with their original owners, thereby restoring art that was vandalized by the church in the name of Christian propriety.

Notes: Clean white laundry musk, lavender, vanilla, earl grey tea, and New Caledonia sandalwood

Folding freshly dried laundry scented with lavender dryer sheets. You periodically take a break to sip some earl grey tea that's sitting on the coffee table, just out of reach.

Notes: passionfruit, orange blossom, guava, strawberry yuzu lemonade, and a dash of coconut cream over a rosewood base.

An extra fruity, innocent scent to cover for your sins. This is one of my favorite blends that came about quite by accident. It is a long lasting, radiant, and realistic tropical fruit salad. It is sweet without being cloying - innocent without being boring. 

Notes: Aged Vanilla Bean Tincture, Marigold Absolute, Amber, Blood Orange, Cocoa, Sugar, Cinnamon Leaf, Carnation

They said she would dab vanilla extract onto her wrists when she was cooking. Only ever wore her good perfume to church.

Maravilla is my most true vanilla scent. It primarily features a vanilla tincture that I started last year on November 1st - Dia de Los Muertos. Although we don't really celebrate in my family, many of us still put out pictures and buy a pot of marigolds this time of year. 

Notes: lemongrass, basil, ginger, turmeric, osmanthus, sweetened toasted coconut, and  sticky rice

It was my last summer working at the art museum and I was now interning as a collection photographer alongside the rest of the staff who were working on preserving, cleaning, and documenting pieces of east asian art from across China, Korea, and Japan. I spent dozens of hours every week with these pieces and across many of them, I would spot recurring themes and images, my favorite was the orange and black spotted koi.